Marktscan moderne glastuinbouw Japan beschikbaar
Summary Market Scan
Japan is highly dependent on imports of horticultural products. This is not likely to change fundamentally in the years to come. The government makes efforts to increase vegetables intake and is implementing measures to revitalize the agriculture into a capital intensive production to meet these food security challenges. In 2014 the Next generation greenhouse program was started to supply the Japanese consumer with fresh domestic tomatoes, cucumbers, and bell peppers. This greenhouse market report focus on the current situation in the modern greenhouse sector, including support measures of the Japanese government. The cost price of domestically produced vegetables and flowers remain high in international comparison. Further yield increase at modern greenhouses by modern management and equipment is needed.
Cultivation area Greenhouse sector
The installation area and the total cultivation area in Japan has declined steadily in the past decade. The installation area has decreased from 52,288 to 43,232 hectares and the total cultivation area has declined with nearly 20%, from 66,051 to 53,249 hectares. Greenhouses account for about 90% of these facilities, of which a small number consists of glasshouses containing vegetables, fruits, flowers, and plants.
Presentations NL-Japan Greenhouse Seminar now available on ABB
On November 21, 2018, the Agricultural section of the Netherlands Embassy in Tokyo organized its yearly greenhouse seminar during the Agro-Innovation Trade Fair at Tokyo Big Sight. At the seminar “Profitable Greenhouse Business in Japan: latest developments in innovation, technology and training“ experts gave an update on the latest developments in greenhouse sector, from perspectives of innovations, technology and labor management. Presentation (English/Japanese):
Only 2.2% of greenhouses have devices to control multiple climate conditions
High-tech has still not been developed to a sufficient capacity as found in the fact that only 40.3% of greenhouses have warming devices, and that only 2.2% of greenhouses have devices to control multiple climate conditions such as temperature, humidity, and light. Since the start of the next generation program, increasing interest has been shown to facilities with high-level climate controls. Especially in Japan, where there is difficulties in cultivation in summer (due to high temperatures and typhoons) the trend in protected horticulture has been rising in recent years. The introduction of climate control would allow for the forwarding period to be extended. The total amount of glass greenhouses and greenhouses with modern multi condition controller has grown from 655 (2013) to 952 in 2015.
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2013 |
2015 |
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With multi-condition controller Glasshouse ha |
179 |
- |
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With multi-condition controller Greenhouse ha |
476 |
- |
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Total (ha) |
655 |
952 |
Bell pepper production
The bell pepper market was initially established through imports and domestic production only developed later. Between 2014 and 2017 the yield increased by 1,600 tons and the crop acreage increased by 14 ha. Despite the increase in the domestic yield of paprika (from 2,322 tons in 2006, 3,057 tons in 2008, 3,792 tons in 2014 and 5,400 tons in 2017), imported paprika still accounts for nearly 90% of the market. In 2014 the yield of paprika in Japan was 3,792 tons, the crop acreage was 64 ha, and the yield per ha was 59 kg. This increased to 5,400 tons, 78 ha and 69 kg in 2017, which shows that the yield per ha increased by 10 kg.
Production cost
The cost composition (419 + 118= 537 yen) for the production of 1 kg of bell pepper can be divided as follows: labor cost (89 yen, 21.1%), consignment fee (17 yen, 4.1%) account for 25.2% (106 yen), followed by the fuel/utility cost (60 yen, 14.3%), the material cost (45 yen, 10.7%), the fertilizer cost and the pesticide cost (21 + 13 = 33 yen, 8.1%), then the breeder cost (16 yen, 3.8%). The most expensive is depreciation (119 yen, 28.4%). The ratio of the executive salaries and the sales commission is high, accounting for 63.6% of the general management cost of 118 yen.
Other calculations
The Market scan includes furthermore cost calculation per kg of cucumbers, tomatoes, flowers and plants. It also provides a list of the newly build 35,8 ha modern greenhouses that have been built under the current next generation program of the Japanese government. An overview of the content can be found below:
Table of Contents
1. The actual status of protected horticulture in Japan_____________________ 1
1.1 Transition of the installation area and the total cultivation area of horticultural facilities_________________________________________________________ 1
1.2 The actual status of protected horticulture____________________________ 3
1.3 Next-generation protected horticulture______________________________ 4
2. Overview by individual cultivation item______________________________ 7
2.1 The status of paprika____________________________________________ 8
2.2 Cost composition of paprika______________________________________ 9
2.3 The production cost of cucumbers and tomatoes_____________________ 10
2.4 The market outline of flowers and plants___________________________ 11
3. References____________________________________________________ 13
Tomatoes: the gross yield__________________________________________ 13
Cucumbers: the gross yield_________________________________________ 13
Strawberries: the gross yield________________________________________ 13
The paprika market (transition of import volume)_______________________ 13
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