Smart Agriculture & Food Security
Study Visit
In-Person
Open
Harvest Robots & Automated Agriculture: Japan Response to Aging Farmers
Japan agricultural robotics — self-driving tractors, smart harvest arms, and crop-spraying drones — Japanese solutions to the farming labour crisis.
Duration
4 days
Hours
28 hrs
Location
Nagoya, Japan
Language
ar
Seats
/ 20
Overview
Japan average farmer is over 67 years old, driving a national urgency to automate agriculture. Japanese companies have responded with self-navigating rice transplanters, strawberry-harvesting robots, lettuce-picking arms, and GNSS-guided spray drones — all commercially deployed. This programme visits working farms using this equipment, meets the engineers, and analyses the economics and feasibility of adoption in Gulf agricultural investments.
Program Objectives
- Survey the landscape of commercially deployed agricultural robots in Japan.
- Evaluate the economics of automation for different crop types.
- Design an agricultural automation adoption plan for a target context.