TITLE:
Plant Factory Engineering Strategy of Japanese Manufacturer and Agri-Business Innovation
AUTHORS:
Suguru Yanata, Takao Nomakuchi, Kaori Ishibashi
KEYWORDS:
Plant Factory Engineering Strategy of Japanese Manufacturer and Agri-Business Innovation
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of Agricultural Chemistry and Environment,
Vol.4 No.2B,
April
9,
2015
ABSTRACT: These days, some manufacturing enterprises
which are forced to diversify management enter Agri- Business and plant factory
business, make an Innovation utilizing high research and development ability
and enough capital. As Agri-Business Innovation in Japan, this study examinedNK
Agri, a subsidiary company of Noritsu Koki, which is a motion picture producer
and machinery maker, based on Industrial Cluster Theory and Diamond Model by
Michael E. Porter. The important points to enter Agri-Business of manufacturing
enterprises were summed up as below. 1) New coming manufacture enterprises can
form Industrial Cluster with farmhouse and foods makers, and enhance productivity
and competitiveness. 2) New coming manufacture enterprises can enhance
productive efficiency by collaborating with orthodox farmhouses as important
partners. 3) Re- search institutions such as universities and local government
should support for forming and development of Agri Industrial Cluster by
manufacture enterprises. Agri Industrial Cluster by manufacture enterprises can
improve local economy, so local government should prepare for the system to
expand support as a policy.