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  • Mm Thomas City in Miyagi Prefecture is one of Japan's major rice growing regions, and for more than 20 years it has been producing high quality rice in an elaborated an environmentally friendly manner using fewer agricultural chemicals.

  • However, in recent years, the aging of the population and the shortage of labor have become issues.

  • Now the region is working to introduce drones to maintain the production.

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  • Kagoshima Prefecture has long been one of Japan's leading tea producing areas.

  • In recent years, however, domestic consumption of tea has stagnated, while overseas demand for high quality tea has increased.

  • In order to meet this demand, local tea farms are using technology to improve the quality of their T by making it safer and more reliable without relying on agricultural chemicals.

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  • The vineyard was a way to utilize the farmland to revitalize this village, which was suffering from depopulation.

  • A knowledge is trained in advanced wine countries have transformed the land into vineyards that produce high quality wine and are actively introducing technology and collecting data to improve cultivation methods which helps to steadily establish a foothold for Japanese wine on the world stage.

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Mm Thomas City in Miyagi Prefecture is one of Japan's major rice growing regions, and for more than 20 years it has been producing high quality rice in an elaborated an environmentally friendly manner using fewer agricultural chemicals.

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