Japan opens the world's first robotic farm

This farm is "mastered" from the stage of watering, fertilizing to cropping, saving half the cost of personnel.

Workers are checking the lettuce on a spread farm in Kyoto, Japan. - (Photo: AFP).

According to the announcement of the Company dated 1-2 Spread based Kyoto, Japan, ranch about 4.400m ^2, will grow lettuce and expected to provide 3,000 salad tree every day.

The farm will be operational next year and the company expects it to supply half a million salads a day for five years.

The farm is fully automated, with robots that take care of most of them, from watering to harvesting vegetables. Only sowing seeds are man-made. Vegetables will be grown indoors, on planting beds arranged from the floor up to the ceiling.

The robot farm will cut staff costs by half, and energy costs will drop by nearly a third, Koji Morisada told AFP.

Japan is promoting the use of automatic technology to make up for labor shortages due to aging population. Currently, Japan has 16.4 million people over 75 years old. By 2025, this figure is estimated at 28.4 million.