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| Japan's Next Generation of Farmers Could Be Robots |
| 2016-04-24 |
| [BLOOMBERG] As the average age of farmers globally creeps higher and retirement looms, Japan has a solution: robots and driver-less tractors. The Group-of-Seven agriculture ministers meet in Japan’s northern prefecture of Niigata this weekend for the first time in seven years to discuss how to meet increasing food demand as aging farmers retire without successors. With the average age of Japanese farmers now 67, Agriculture Minister Hiroshi Moriyama will outline his idea of replacing retiring growers with Japanese-developed autonomous tractors and backpack-carried robots. U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has warned that left unchecked, aging farmers could threaten the ability to produce the food the world needs. The average age of growers in developed countries is now about 60, according to the United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... . Japan plans to spend 4 billion yen ($36 million) in the year through March to promote farm automation and help develop 20 different types of robots, including one that separates over-ripe peaches when harvesting. "There are no other options for farmers but to rely on technologies developed by companies if they want to raise productivity while they are graying," said Makiko Tsugata, senior analyst at Mizuho Securities Co. in Tokyo. "The government should help them adopt new technologies." |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 Boring Twenties Mechanical Japanese strippers Relax in their flannels and slippers To tunes from turntables, Say, Pops, with the labels Displaying mechanical Nippers. Or "hipsters." Whichever. |
| Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 2016-04-24 21:18 |
| #3 I wonder if teh next generation of AI robot Japanese with be as kinky? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2016-04-24 19:23 |
| #2 If we cut to the chase, the next generation of all Japanese can be robots. I have tried talking to the Pope about the coming of Robo-Jesus and The Word Made Silicon, but he just ignores my emails. Don't think he is that into robotic outreach. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2016-04-24 19:04 |
| #1 The robots sent into Fukushima haven't worked that well. So, will the workers in farms near it need to be older people who will die of old age before cancer? |
| Posted by: 3dc 2016-04-24 14:59 |