Sunday, April 24, 2016

Robot Farmers In Japan

The robot revolution continues apace:

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.

You can read the rest @
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-04-23/robots-replacing-japan-s-farmers-seen-preserving-food-security

Eventually the food they harvest will be sold outside of Japan (assuming it's not radioactive).

Why? Japan's population is rapidly declining, as proven by the fact that more adult diapers are now sold in Japan than baby diapers. You can read about it here:

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/adult-nappies-outsell-baby-nappies-4706474

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