Hiroaki Asakura, a farmer in Aichi Prefecture, central Japan, learned how to be a green thumb from his father. This meant knowing the seasons for planting crops and what pesticides to apply and when. But climate change has made reliance on instinct a dangerous game.
To deal with today’s reality, Japanese firms have begun supplying AI-based agricultural pest diagnosis solutions to farmers like Asakura via smartphone apps, in a bid to boost crop yields and reduce the amounts of pesticides used in cultivation.
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