Japanese firm to open world’s first robot-run farm

World’s first fully automated farm with robots handling almost every step of the process from watering seedlings to harvesting crops will be open in Japan announced byKyoto-based Spread

• The indoor grow house will start operating by the middle of 2017 and produce30,000 heads of lettuce a day.
• It hopes to boost that figure to half a million lettuce heads daily within five years.
• The farm, measuring about 4,400 square metres (47,300 square feet), will have floor-to-ceiling shelves where the produce is grown.

Key points :

• Japan Capital : Tokyo
• Japan Currency : Yen
• Japan PM : Shinzō Abe