10/12/2021 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 10/12/2021 00:38
October 12, 2021
Kubota Corporation
Kubota Corporation (Head Office: Naniwa-ku, Osaka, Japan; President and Representative Director: Yuichi Kitao; hereinafter, "Kubota"), Topcon Corporation (Headquarters: Itabashi-ku, Tokyo, Japan; President and Chief Executive Officer: Satoshi Hirano; Hereinafter: "Topcon") and Topcon Positioning Systems, Inc. (Head Office: California, US; President & CEO: Raymond O'Connor) have entered into a collaboration research agreement in the field of smart agriculture. Those companies will work together to innovate for future commercialization through collaborative research in the field of smart agriculture, bringing together the technologies and know-how developed by each company.
Contract Date | June 30, 2021 |
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Kubota has taken on the challenges of solving global issues by providing solutions with a wide variety of products, technologies and services in the areas of food, water and the environment, which are essential to our daily lives. In the area of smart agriculture, which has attracted attention in recent years, Kubota has accelerated business development focusing on ultra-labor saving based on automation and attaining precision farming through the use of data.
With the Corporate Identity of "contribute to enrich human life by solving the societal challenges within healthcare, agriculture and infrastructure," in the Agriculture domain, Topcon promotes the factorization of agriculture by attaining higher precision and improved productivity from planning to harvest, which is the agricultural cycle. They will attain this through DX solutions that include automation of farm operations and utilization of IT in order to meet the worldwide demand for food.
Topcon Positioning Systems, always one step ahead in technology and customer benefits, is an industry leading designer, manufacturer and distributor of precision measurement and workflow solutions for the global construction, geospatial and agriculture markets. Topcon Positioning Group is headquartered in Livermore, California, U.S. Its European head office is in Capelle a/d IJssel, the Netherlands.