Business trend
Senkon Logistics based
in the Tohoku district shipped a plant factory to the Far Eastern region of
Russia. Using the marketing channel of its business partner, VL Logistics, the
company plans to sell plant factories to local supermarkets. Targeting the cold
district where fresh vegetables are hard to get, it wishes to stimulate demand
for fresh vegetables and expand the market to the entirely Siberia. A
supermarket chain in Vladivostok has decided to purchase a plant factory on
trial. The supermarket chain plans to produce vegetables with a daily
production capacity of 100 pieces, but it will purchase additional factories to
increase the production capacity and sell vegetables produced in the plant
factories through all its outlets staring this autumn.
Espec, a
Tokyo-based company specializing in environment-related equipment, will build
the plant factory. It is a 20 feet-40 feet container-like factory that grows lettuce,
basil, sweet herbs for a 20-30 day cycle under the strict management of light,
temperature, water, and fertilizer. As it is rather hard to grow vegetables in
such a cold area as the Far Eastern region of Russia, Japanese vegetables grown in a plant factory are expected to be sold 2-3 times higher than locally-produced
vegetables. In particular, Japanese vegetables are supposed to be in great demand in winter. Senkon
plans to expand the market to Irkutsk and cover the entire Siberian market in
the future.
Pant factory
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