A role of bio-production robots in precision farming Japan model

Community-based precision farming is a new concept of agriculture, which is producing well-organized wisdom farmers and technology platform in Japan. The wisdom farmers create a new farming system to manage hierarchical variability: variability in farmers' community as well as within-field and between-field variability. The technology platform develops and provides three key-technologies: mapping technology, variable-rate technology and decision support systems available for rural constraints. The advancement of bio-production robots takes precision farming to the next level, where two key-technologies: how to produce/manage information-oriented fields and information-added products, are attained.