Japanese plant outlook is expected to expand the scale of 9 billion yuan tamping

Recently, the city of Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, more than the city to the media to show the world's largest LED (light-emitting diode) artificial light plant plant. This is called "future Hirohata" factory covers an area of about 2300 square meters, with 17 thousand and 500 LED lights, but annual production of about 10 thousand, is expected to harvest lettuce every day. Not long ago, Fujitsu Corporation also announced that after about a year of preparation, the production of low potassium lettuce plant plant began to put on the market.

The plant factory, is in a closed environment, cultivation technique for full control of light, temperature, humidity, carbon dioxide concentration, water and nutrient, its biggest characteristic is not affected by climate, and efficient intensive on water and land use, 100 times the yield of natural cultivation, water consumption is less than 1%. Plant factory can also be adjusted according to the needs of nutrition of vegetables and fruits, such as Fujitsu for the production of low potassium lettuce is mainly supply the local hospital kidney patients, under the Shiseido plant factory specializing in training with antibody of vegetables, raw material for cosmetics and pharmaceuticals. According to the website of the Ministry of agriculture, forestry and Fisheries of Japan, plant vegetables and natural cultivation in the taste of the same or even better. Since 2009, Japan has set off a "plant factory heat". According to statistics, as of March 2011, a total of 93 plants in Japan, in 2013 this figure rose to 304.

The rise of plant factories in Japan is not accidental. Due to the small number of aging, the average age of Japanese farmers over 65 years. The number of families engaged in agriculture from 1960 6 million 60 thousand to 2009 1 million 700 thousand households to reduce households, agricultural GDP from 1990 13 trillion and 700 billion yen (about 822 billion 600 million yuan) of the peak in 2011 fell to 9 trillion and 500 billion yen (about 570 billion 400 million yuan). 2009, the Japanese government to relax the restrictions on the transfer of agricultural land, encourage enterprises to invest in agriculture. The Ministry of economy, industry, agriculture, forestry and fisheries has formulated a supplementary budget of 14 billion 600 million yen to support the construction of plant plants.

Another reason for the popularity of plant plants is that the Japanese construction industry due to the downturn in the economy and public construction projects, eager to seek new development through investment in agriculture. Chain restaurants and supermarket companies want to build their own vegetable base in order to form a stable supply of raw materials. Electronics industry due to the gradual shift of the manufacturing sector to overseas, a large number of cleaning devices used in the production of precision devices such as chip idle, these plants can only be a little transformation plant plant. As a result, these three industries have become the most aggressive pioneer in plant investment.

According to Yano Economic Research Institute of statistics, 2013, artificial lighting plant factory of Japan's domestic market size of 3 billion 400 million yen (about 204 million yuan), the sun light type plant factory market size of 19 billion 900 million yen (about 1 billion 195 million yuan). With the development and popularization of technology, it is expected that by 2025, the size of the Japanese plant will exceed 150 billion yen (about RMB 9 billion yuan). At present, Showa electronics and other large electronics companies have plant plant equipment and technical development as the focus of research and development. Japan also hopes to plant plants as an important part of future exports, into the Middle East and other regions of the water market.

Despite promising prospects, the development of plant plants are still facing some bottlenecks". For example, the initial investment is too large, a Nissan 1000 strains of lettuce plant artificial lighting factory, generally require 80 million (about 4 million 803 thousand and 600 yuan) to 150 million yen (about 9 million 6 thousand and 700 yuan) of the initial investment. Even if the government subsidies 50%, it usually takes about 5 to 7 years to achieve profitability. Compared to the natural cultivation of lettuce per kg 300 - 600 yen (about 18-36 yuan) price, plant lettuce sold to 1100 - 1500 yen (about 66-90) is still unattractive. In addition, the planting technology of the agricultural era of the factory has yet to be mature, and related quality control, logistics sales model is also exploring.

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