The Environmental Economic Analysis for Management of Sustainable Sugarcane Production at The Southwest Islands

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24780210
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Agro-economics
• Research Institution: Tokyo Institute of Technology
• Principal Investigator: IMOTO Tomoko 東京工業大学, 情報理工学(系)研究科, 助教 (60550324)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: サトウキビ / 環境 / 情報 / 経営

Outline of Final Research Achievements

We applied IT mainly focus on the effectiveness of the information sharing to sugarcane. We developed “SugarNavi”, a mobile application, to support harvest being more efficient. Using “SugarNavi” by an operator of harvester, the working location and operation status are uploaded to the server, in which these information are unified and visualized. With a support from “SugarNavi”, appropriate and smooth rearrangement of harvesters also become possible. We next investigate the information of harvest’s situation shared; the information varies according to the progress of harvest. As a result, in many cases, limited information is shared by a part of them, and it is suggested that the function of information visualization and sharing in “SugarNavi” could be applied for consensus forming for the order of harvest. Finally, in this experiment, since all persons concerned used “SugarNavi”, we clarified problems that we face with when “SugarNavi” begins to be used actually.

Free Research Field

農業経済学・環境経済学