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The Vision of the Smart Agri Business

We support a sustainable society with our proprietary smart agribusiness technology and know-how.

Message from Division Director

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Today, agriculture in Japan and around the world is facing a major turning point. The instability of harvests due to climate change and the serious decline and aging of the farming population are serious issues that are shaking the foundation of our "food" industry.
We at the Smart Agriculture Business Division are convinced that these social issues are not a crisis, but rather a great opportunity to create and provide new value. When we first entered the market, we started out in the business of developing and providing equipment, facilities, IoT, and specialized design and construction of plant factories for our customers by leveraging our strengths in our three core businesses of electronics, factory automation (FA), and refrigeration. However, we have now 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 allows anyone to enter this business. Solving social issues cannot be accomplished by a single company alone. We are determined to steadily create the future together with our stakeholders, step by step.
RYODEN Smart Agriculture Division will continue to take on challenges with this great ambition of "supporting a sustainable society" in mind. Please look forward to our future growth.

Growth Strategy for Smart Agribusiness

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, which is approximately three times the current level. The core of the strategy is "photosynthesis engineering," which we began working on in the first year of the medium-term business plan.　
This is to provide customers who are making investments in commercializing not only leafy vegetables but also various photosynthetic organisms (algae, microalgae, extraction of components from plant bodies, etc.) with our expertise in promoting photosynthesis that optimizes light, water, and air (CO2), which we have cultivated through our plant factories, and a system for mass production with high operational efficiency. This field is expected to be a means to solve important issues that society and our company are considering, 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 by sublimating our plant factory know-how and rapidly expanding our earnings. The plant factory production and sales business turned profitable in FY2024 and has been contributing to earnings since FY2025. We will maintain our leading position in the industry and promote initiatives for sustainable food and agriculture that respond to climate change and the shortage of farmers.

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.