Kagome sets up tomato cultivation R&D base in Portugal
Kagome has a food-processing subsidiary in Portugal that handles over 40% of the 1 million tons of tomatoes and semifinished goods like tomato paste procured by the Kagome group each year.
In addition, Kagome is operating an experimental farm in Portugal where it is collaborating with NEC on the use of information technologies for mass production farming techniques.
The new R&D base in Portugal will begin operations this summer, equipped with 120 million yen ($1 million) worth of processing and testing equipment.
The scale of the facility and the staff may be increased in the future, but for now it will begin with a team of five researchers. They will work in tandem with the Portuguese subsidiary and with Kagome’s R&D headquarters in Japan to promote adoption of mass production technologies for tomato farming in various parts of the world.
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