Most
of the information technology systems are currently used by Japanese farmers are
used for duties such as filing tax records and traceability records to meet the
requirements of non-farmers in the government and distribution industry.
Agriculture and IT:
The introduction of IT
into agriculture has been performed in areas where farmers have been more or less
obliged to use it to comply with government and distribution industry rules, such
as filing tax returns and maintaining traceability records. It cannot be said for certain that IT has
been useful in actual agricultural production.
Affinity with cloud computing:
•
Reduction of initial costs
•
Maintenance and upgrades performed in the back-end
• Easy
rapid development including collaboration with other systems in the
• More
possibilities for global service development
Proposed platform:
Smashups’ of the various systems cited in the previous section
also require flexibility in the platform structure. Even when one is considering just one
agricultural service application, the required functions include basic authentication
and billing functions that can be shared with other fields such as GPS data
processing and mapping systems.
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