AGRIST Co., Ltd.
Selected for the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries’ “Small and Medium Enterprise Innovation Creation Promotion Project” to develop and demonstrate innovative smart agricultural technologies and services to automate and improve efficiency of agricultural work. In preparation for a large-scale demonstration of maximizing agricultural income and expenditure based on data acquired by automatic harvesters, data collected from harvesting robots will be analyzed using AI, with the aim of optimizing shipping forecasts, demand forecasts, and farm management.
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AGRIST Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Shintomi-cho, Miyazaki Prefecture, hereinafter referred to as AGRIST), which promotes data agriculture using AI, is a company that promotes automation of agricultural work in the agricultural field in the “Small and Medium Enterprise Innovation Creation Promotion Project” implemented by the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries. We are pleased to inform you that the theme of “Development and demonstration of innovative smart agricultural technologies and services to improve efficiency” has been adopted on December 28th (Thursday).
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Since our company was founded in 2019, we have been working on developing automatic harvesting robots for green peppers and cucumbers.
A farm in the Kanto region that introduced a cucumber harvesting robot in September 2023 achieved an average harvest rate of over 40% in one month. In terms of hourly wage, it has the harvesting capacity of one person per month.
In addition, at our company’s farm in Shintomi-cho, Miyazaki Prefecture, we managed cultivation while analyzing the collected data, and by growing from August 2022 to June of the following year, we achieved a yield of 17.4 tons, which is approximately 1.4 times the average yield of green peppers. Achieved.
During this development process, we experienced situations in which even if we were able to improve the efficiency of harvesting, the yield could easily fluctuate by 20% to 30% due to weather and other factors, and the market price could halve or double.
For this reason, we have been equipping harvesting robots with sensors and cameras to collect various data with the aim of developing an algorithm to adjust harvest timing based on market price predictions. Optimize the entire supply chain with an AI agriculture platform By equipping harvesting robots with cameras and sensors, it is possible to obtain precise environmental and growth data from the entire farm. By analyzing this data using AI, we can accurately understand the growth status of crops and achieve highly accurate yield predictions. We also aim to maximize profits by predicting supply and demand by linking with external data such as weather and market data, and controlling the cultivation environment accordingly. Furthermore, by linking data with logistics and sales, we will build an AI agricultural platform that not only optimizes cultivation management but also the entire supply chain.
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About the Small and Medium Enterprise Innovation Creation Promotion Project Utilizing the SBIR (Small/Startup Business Innovation Research) system, startups conducting innovative research and development will conduct large-scale technology demonstrations (Phase 3) that will lead to social implementation. This project aims to promote the social implementation of cutting-edge technologies.
About recruitment
In line with this selection for the SBIR project, AGRIST is increasing its recruitment of engineers who will build the AI agricultural platform “AGRIST AI” and farm staff who will cultivate next-generation farms and research and develop agricultural technology.
[Recruitment type]
engineer
・Web application engineer
・IoT engineer
・Data scientist
・Smartphone application engineer
*The work location is the Tsukuba office in Tsukuba City, Ibaraki Prefecture, and some remote work is also possible.
farm management
・Cultivation technology researcher (person with knowledge of plant physiology, such as a Ph.D. in agriculture)
・Cultivation manager
・Equipment manager
・Agricultural product sales and market expansion
If you are interested, please contact us below (https://agrist.com/recruit).
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■Reference press
・[First introduction] Engineers respond to the operation of cucumber harvesting robots on site
(https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000102.000050444.html) ・Remote cucumber harvesting experience connecting a farm approximately 1000 kilometers away with a kindergarten in Kagoshima City
(https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000105.000050444.html) ・AGRIST starts offering LINE version of agricultural assistant “Agristant” for free using Azure OpenAI Service
(https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000096.000050444.html) ■About AGRIST Co., Ltd.
AGRIST is a startup company that uses technology to solve agricultural issues. Currently, the average age of Japanese farmers is 68 years old, and the number of agricultural workers is expected to be halved by 2030, and the need to solve agricultural issues due to labor shortages in Japan is increasing. AGRIST will solve these agricultural issues by realizing next-generation agriculture using technology, contributing to solving the world’s food problems and improving the well-being of all humankind.
■Company name: AGRIST Co., Ltd.
■Representatives: Representative Director and CEO Junichi Saito, CTO Yuki Hata ■Location: 1-47-1 Tomita Higashi, Shintomi-cho, Koyu-gun, Miyazaki Prefecture ■Established: October 2019
■URL: https://agrist.com
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