Corporate Philosophy
Building the Future of Regions Through Agri-Tech
We uncover new possibilities and create value across the food and agriculture sectors, contributing to a sustainable and prosperous society.
Our Business
We build and operate the food and agriculture value chain.
Seed Research and Development
Plant Breeding
To advance sustainable agriculture, NTT AgriTechnology works in partnership with Leaf lab Co., Ltd. to enhance productivity and ensure stable yields.
Primary Sector
Production
Leveraging ICT to maximize yields and production efficiency, our next-generation greenhouse operations extend beyond design and construction to include hands-on farming through company-owned facilities operated as an agricultural enterprise.
Secondary Sector
Food Processing and Distribution
By utilizing off-grade produce and helping reduce food loss, we support the realization of a sustainable society through food processing and distribution.
Tertiary Sector
Sales and End-User Consumption
In collaboration with the Nousouken Corporation, we are committed to creating new value through agricultural products.
Core Business
Sustainable Next-Generation Greenhouse Horticulture for the Future
Design and Construction (Greenhouse Engineering)
Advanced
Agricultural Greenhouses
Advanced Agricultural Greenhouses
Toward Sustainable High-tech Greenhouse
Advanced Agricultural Greenhouses
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Addressing Labor Shortages and Digitalization
By developing and refining work plans, optimizing workforce allocation, and standardizing operations, we enable efficient production through employed labor and support the expansion of business scale
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Sustainability Through High Productivity
Advanced ICT-based control of temperature, humidity, CO₂, and other variables enables year-round production and a step-change in yields
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Moving Toward a Fossil Fuel–Free Future
By harnessing regional renewable energy sources, including solar, biomass, biogas, and geothermal, we move away from fossil fuels and build resilient, sustainable operations
Aerial view of a greenhouse
By combining NTT’s distinctive smart agriculture capabilities with broad experience from production through distribution and sales, we co create next generation agricultural management with our customers. Going beyond ICT and AI based smart farming software, we integrate engineering expertise for the design and construction of high-tech greenhouse to optimize production environments using advanced environmental control and LED lighting. This enables large scale greenhouse operations to achieve both higher energy efficiency and greater productivity. In addition, by deploying automated guided vehicles (AGV), we enable the automated transport of crops and materials within agricultural and horticultural facilities, reducing labor burdens and improving operational efficiency.
NTT AgriTechnology’s high-tech greenhouse solutions aim to balance strong economic performance with environmental responsibility, delivering productivity levels beyond conventional greenhouses while jointly creating a new, future oriented model for reducing dependence on fossil fuels.
Our vision
NTT AgriTechnology aims to realize economically and environmentally sustainable agriculture through high-tech greenhouse horticulture. By leveraging advanced ICT and AI technologies to deliver environmental control suited to large scale operations, we achieve both higher agricultural productivity and reduced environmental impact. Through these initiatives, we ensure a stable supply of agricultural products while contributing to regional revitalization and improved working conditions for agricultural professionals. Furthermore, data driven farm management supports higher crop quality and maximized returns, helping address future food challenges.
Construction Team
Large Scale Greenhouse Exterior
Practicing highly productive smart agriculture
Production at Our Farms
Leaf Lettuce Production
Using Advanced Technology
Tomato Cultivation in
Advanced Greenhouses
Practicing Smart Agriculture at Our Own Farms
Leaf Lettuce Production Using Advanced Technology
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Enabling Year Round, Planned Production
By leveraging advanced environmental control technologies, IoT, and other cutting-edge solutions, we create optimal growing conditions for leaf lettuce, improving productivity while achieving a high increase in yields.
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Sustainable Design
All electricity is sourced entirely from renewable energy, with automated environmental control systems improving energy efficiency. Viewing water as a vital resource, we use groundwater based irrigation systems to deliver automated watering at optimal timings, while wastewater is circulated and reused to minimize waste.
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A Supportive Work Environment
The facility is designed to minimize manual labor, enabling tasks such as harvesting to be performed without bending, which reduces physical strain and allows even those with no prior agricultural experience to work comfortably.
Automated Leaf Lettuce Cultivation
NTT Agri Technology was established in 2019 as the first company within the NTT Group dedicated exclusively to agriculture. With strong expertise in high-tech greenhouse horticulture that maximizes yields and productivity through ICT based integrated environmental control, we have pioneered smart agriculture by developing and operating “Veggie I City Yamanashi Chuo” in Yamanashi Prefecture in collaboration with regional partners.
Veggie I City Yamanashi Chuo
Our Vision
We aim to develop a new model of greenhouse horticulture that supports regional agriculture using ICT and advanced technologies. What matters most to us is not only efficiency, but also the sustainable and stable production of agricultural products. By leveraging the expertise gained from our own farms, we provide production management systems required for environmental control and farm operations, including “Digital Farmer”, to support productivity improvement. Working in collaboration with regional agricultural corporations and local governments, we aim to create communities by anchoring primary industries and fostering the concentration of related industries and infrastructure, combined with the assets of the NTT Group. Through these initiatives, we aim to help address challenges such as the shortage of successors and underutilized farmland, while scaling sustainable agricultural models across Japan and ultimately to the world.
Data-driven farm management support connecting experts and producers
Remote Farming Assistance
Remote Farming
Assistance System
Production and Labor
Management Services
Digital Farmer
Global Expansion of
Smart Agriculture
Connecting Experts and Producers for Data Driven Agriculture
Remote Farming Assistance
AGRI CHANNEL
Introducing Our Remote Farming Assistance System
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Remote Agricultural Support for Multiple Farms Without On-Site Visits
Based on environmental sensor data, camera footage displayed on the dashboard, and producers’ work records, experts can provide cultivation guidance. In addition, smart glasses enable two-way, real-time communication.
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Expert Skills and Know How Transfer
By delivering guidance through the system, we accumulate the cultivation expertise and know-how of individual specialists. Visualizing advisory content helps maintain and further enhance the quality and consistency of expert guidance.
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AI Powered Guidance Support
Simple inquiries are handled by AI, while accumulated data such as past guidance content and images is leveraged to provide producers with tailored initial responses.
Utilization of smart glasses
By leveraging data from on-site environmental sensors and camera footage, together with growth and work records entered by producers via smartphones and other devices, experts can provide remote agricultural support and deliver farming guidance without visiting the fields. By using smart glasses to view producers’ work perspectives in real time, experts can provide farming guidance under conditions comparable to an on-site visit. In addition, by leveraging AI driven cultivation advice and pest and disease diagnostics, producers can easily access cultivation related information at any time.
Our Vision
Through our Remote Farming Assistance services, we aim to establish a framework that enables experts to effectively manage and guide multiple fields without on-site visits, delivering greater operational efficiency in agricultural settings while reducing the burden on specialists. In addition, we provide easy access for producers by offering AI driven cultivation advice and pest and disease diagnostics, enabling even those with limited farming experience to use our services with confidence. Through these efforts, we aim to support the sustainable growth of agriculture and realize a society in which more people can achieve stable and resilient agricultural management.
President and CEO Message
Thank you for your continued support and patronage.
We are the only company within the NTT Group dedicated exclusively to food and primary industries.
In light of recent factors such as geopolitical and infectious disease risks, the increasing severity of climate change, and rising international prices and currency fluctuations, the stable supply of food has once again emerged as a national security concern, and many of you may have increasingly felt these risks firsthand in your daily lives as well. Against this backdrop, we work with a wide range of partners with the aim of contributing to a stable food supply and to the growth, succession, and enhanced appeal of primary industries.
In Japan, the very term “farming communities” reflects how primary industries serve as vital regional foundations, nurturing culture and community and playing an integral role in local development.
Another key characteristic of primary industries is their broad ecosystem, encompassing logistics, warehousing, regional energy, processing, and food distribution, among many related sectors. Anchored in primary industries, we would be honored to contribute directly to regional development by fostering the integration of surrounding industries and infrastructure and combining the assets of the NTT Group to help build what could be described as an “agricultural eco-city”.
We are pleased to report that our business track record now spans a wide range of initiatives, including production and sales at our own farms and land based aquaculture facilities; smart city development support anchored in primary industries; design and construction of large scale greenhouses; plant breeding and new variety development; labor and production management systems; yield forecasting; consulting services; field sensing; productivity enhancement and labor saving through IoT and AI; support for communications system deployment; wildlife damage mitigation; Remote Farming Assistance; robotics implementation assistance; sales of related products; and the provision of expert instructors. We invite you to explore the case studies featured on this website, which highlight not only our projects but also the tangible outcomes achieved through their implementation.
In addition to providing solutions to address challenges, we actively engage in tackling them ourselves, operating multiple company owned farms so that we can share insights with real impact and authenticity grounded in firsthand experience. We are committed to giving back to society by sharing and applying the expertise gained through these experiences.
While our work is challenging, we move forward with confidence, believing there are areas that only our company is uniquely positioned to undertake.
With a spirit of co-creation rather than competition, we will work together with all stakeholders to create new value and new possibilities.
With your continued guidance and support, we will dedicate ourselves to advancing Japanese agriculture and extending our efforts to the global stage. We kindly ask for your ongoing encouragement and collaboration.
Sincerely,
NTT AgriTechnology Corporation
Taiga Sakai
President and CEO
Company Overview
| Company name | NTTAgriTechnology Corporation |
| President and CEO | Taiga Sakai |
| Date of Establishment | 2019/7/1 |
| Business Overview | – Production, Processing, and Sales of Primary Industry Products at Company Owned Plants and Facilities – Provision of ICT Plant Solutions, including the design and construction of state-of-the-art greenhouses and land-based aquaculture plants – Provision of Solutions for Primary Industries, including the regional implementation of data driven primary industry models |
| Capital | JPY 400 million |
| Construction Business License | Tokyo Metropolitan Government (Special Category) No. 151576 |
| Architectural Firm Registration | Tokyo Metropolitan Government No. 66260 |
| Invoice Issuer Registration No. | T7011101088256 |
| Head Office Address | 〒163－8019 3-19-2 Nishi-Shinjuku, Shinjuku ku, Tokyo 163-8019, Japan (Located within the NTT East Japan Head Office Building) |
| Access | A two-minute walk from Hatsudai Station East Exit on the Keio New Line Click here to download our company brochure Japanese English |
