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RYODEN's Vision

Vision for the Smart Agri Business

We support a sustainable society with our proprietary smart agri business technologies and know-how.

Message from the General Manager

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Today, agriculture in Japan and globally is facing a major turning point. Climate change is making harvests increasingly unstable, and the serious decline and aging of the farming population pose critical challenges that threaten the foundation of our food system.
We, the Smart Agri Business, believe that these social challenges should not be seen as a crisis but rather a great opportunity to create and provide new value. When we first entered the market, we leveraged the strengths of our three core businesses—electronics, factory automation (FA), and cooling & heating—to develop and deliver equipment, facilities, IoT solutions, and specialized design and construction services, providing customers with comprehensive plant factory solutions. Today, driven by our ambition to establish and deliver a proven and reliable business model, we have expanded our business to include plant factory operation and vegetable distribution and sales, covering the entire value chain related to plant factories.

Our goal at Smart Agri is to provide a reliable business model that enables various companies and partners to enter this field. Solving social challenges cannot be accomplished by only a single company. We are committed to building the future together with our stakeholders through steady and continuous efforts.
RYODEN Smart Agri Division will continue to take on challenges with this great ambition of "supporting a sustainable society." Please look forward to our future growth.

Growth Strategy for Smart Agri Business

In our medium- to long-term management plan, we have formulated a growth strategy to achieve sales of 10 billion yen and an operating margin of 15% in FY2029, approximately three times the current level. The core of the strategy is "photosynthesis engineering," an initiative started in the first year of the medium-term management plan.
This initiative provides customers investing in the commercialization of various photosynthetic organisms—not only leafy vegetables but also algae, microalgae, and plant-derived component extraction—with our expertise in enhancing photosynthesis by optimizing light, water, and air (CO2), cultivated through our plant factories, as well as our highly efficient mass-production systems. 
This field is expected to provide solutions to critical challenges facing both society and our company, such as safety and security by shifting raw materials to biological origin and reduction and fixation of greenhouse gas emissions by utilizing exhaust gas. We will enter this promising market before others by leveraging and advancing our plant factory know-how and drive rapid growth in profitability. 
Our plant factory production and sales business turned profitable in FY2024 and has been contributing to earnings since FY2025. 
We will continue maintaining our leading position in the industry and promoting initiatives for sustainable food and agriculture that respond to climate change and the shortage of agricultural workers.

Action

Winners of the

Winners of the "Sendenkaigi Award" Sponsor Company Award Announced

Innovation

For the 63rd Sendenkaigi Award, we invited submissions for advertising copy related to our plant-factory vegetables and selected the winner for the Sponsor Company Award. Going forward, we will utilize the winning copy to further enhance the brand recognition of our plant-factory vegetables and the "Vege-Monster" brand.