Adaptation activity
Kyoto Prefecture is aiming to improve the production efficiency and quality of agricultural, forestry and fishery production using information and communications technology (ICT), as a response to rising temperatures caused by climate change.
In the cultivation of the clam Fulvia mutica in the Tango area of Kyoto prefecture, increased mortality occurred due to higher-than-average water temperatures in the summer. A system has therefore been developed to increase the survival rate by using sensors to monitor calm bed water conditions in real time which trigger an adjustment of water depth accordingly (Fig. 1). In regards to tea cultivation, 10 meteorological stations have been set up in the Uji region, as well as a system which indicates when to best take action against the tea pest, Pseudaulacaspis pentagona, according to total heat accumulation, calculated from averaged daily temperatures (Fig. 2). Additionally, the optimum use of fertilizer and timing of rice harvests, which are changing due to warmer temperatures, are now being calculated using applications that calculate growth rate from images taken on a smartphone.
