Smart Agricultural Farmo won the Tochigi Governor Award "5th Mebuki Business Awards"

Smart Agricultural Farmo won the Tochigi Governor Award "5th Mebuki Business Awards"

　Farmo (Farmo, Utsunomiya City), a smart agricultural IT venture, won the Tochigi Prefectural Governor Award for the 5th Mebuki Business Award, which commends innovative and creative business plans. This award is a business plan contest aimed at supporting growth companies and enhancing the local bank, which is a subsidiary of Joyo Bank (Mito City) and Ashikaga Bank (Utsunomiya City). 。 Farmo proposed a "Smart Agricultural Promotion Project to continue to challenge regional issues with IoT" and won the award. In general, smart agriculture (agricultural IoT) often says that the price is too high, it is not profitable, and it is too difficult after the introduction. Therefore, Farmo has made it "free communication costs", "focus on functions, simple and easy to use", and provides long -range wireless (LPWA) communications as local infrastructure, and this solution is evaluated. It is said that it was done.