～ Community Revitalization by utilizing ICT and Agriculture ～

I deeply appreciate your continued support.
“NTT AgriTechnology” was established as the first company specializing in combining agriculture and ICT in the NTT Group.
NTT East has continued to exchange opinions everyone at the municipalities, JA, agricultural corporations, and farmers, and helped solve issues revolving around agriculture, this region's primary industry, and other related issues, as well as performed a number of projects together to promote even further growth.
I feel a renewed appreciation for the fact that agriculture is the largest industry that has contributed to Japan as well as this region, and have worked searching for options as we face the issues of a decreasing birthrate and aging population and international competition, much as other industries are facing.
All the while, we have been receiving feedback from municipalities stating that they expect the effective use of unused farm land and next generational protected horticulture that can create new employment opportunities to assist with revitalizing the region. From farmers and agricultural corporations, we have been told that a comprehensive system, including facility design, IoT, robotics, and work style (labor and production management, etc.) will be required to implement next generational protected horticulture.
For these reasons, our new company was established with the purpose of using next generational protected horticulture for regional social and economic revitalization, and use next generational protected horticulture IoT/AI technology to produce agriculture ourselves, and provide total solutions to our clients.
Agriculture is notable for being an industry with an extremely large amount of related industries, including distribution, storage, local energy, processing, and food retail. It would be my greatest pleasure if we could assist in urban planning in which we could bring together agriculture related industries and combine them with the assets of the NTT group to form an agricultural eco-city.
NTT Agritechnology and NTT East will move forward together with the people living in this region.
It is a challenging business, but we will move forward with the belief that it is something our company is capable of.
We will cooperate, rather than compete, with you all to create new things.
I look forward to expanding the business with your help.
Thank you.