Focus on distribution-based startups. Distribution costs for agricultural products are high, and the decline in domestic self-sufficiency is palpable due to cheap imports under the TPP. There is a movement to share agricultural assets, such as efforts to create a D2C platform for agricultural products and matching abandoned farmland with those seeking to become farmers.
Exploring the future of agriculture ultimately leads us to the Netherlands. The reason behind the country's achievement of becoming the world's second largest agricultural exporter despite having a land area the size of Kyushu is its highly automated greenhouse cultivation, which attracts agricultural organizations and students from around the world to learn the techniques and then bring them back to their home countries.
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