Tomatoes Cultivated at Company's Own Farm Win Award at '5th National Mini Tomato Championship'

Yamato Computer Co., Ltd. (Osaka Head Office: Takatsuki City, Osaka Prefecture / Tokyo Head Office: Minato Ward, Tokyo; Representative Director and President: Kenji Nakamura; hereinafter 'Yamato Computer') is pleased to announce that fruit tomatoes cultivated at its self-operated Bigroots Farm (Fukuroi City, Shizuoka Prefecture) won an award at the '5th National Mini Tomato Championship,' organized by the Japan Vegetable Sommelier Association, where producers nationwide compete on quality.

Yamato Computer cultivates high-Brix tomatoes, reaching a maximum of 16 degrees Brix, during winter through meticulous cultivation management utilizing IT, achieving an impressive sweetness and deliciousness comparable to fruit. Specifically, they finely control the timing and duration of stress applied to tomatoes using their proprietary IT technology, reproducing the 'experience and intuition' of skilled farmers as much as possible, thereby maintaining a quality of over 10 degrees Brix on average.

Yamato Computer operates its own farms in Shizuoka and Shiga prefectures, engaging in smart agriculture utilizing technology. This award is one of the results of earnestly applying the data utilization and improvement activity concepts cultivated as an IT company to agriculture, diligently addressing daily cultivation management and quality improvement.

Moving forward, through smart agriculture utilizing technology, we will continue to challenge various issues facing Japanese agriculture, contribute to local communities, and pursue 'deliciousness' and a 'sustainable agricultural model.' Furthermore, we will continue to challenge data collection in agricultural fields, data-driven cultivation based on that data, operational improvement and labor-saving cultivation utilizing AI, and advanced quality control. We will continue to promote the production of agricultural products that many more people find 'delicious.'

Representative Comment Kenji Nakamura, Representative Director and President, Yamato Computer Co., Ltd.

It is a great honor that the fruit tomatoes grown at our own farm received an award at the 5th National Mini Tomato Championship. I am truly delighted that the efforts of our employees, who have seriously engaged with agriculture, have been recognized. I am also confident that our technological capabilities have been acknowledged in the ultimate sensory indicator of 'taste.' Moving forward, we aim to be a company that contributes to local communities while pursuing the possibilities of a sustainable agricultural model utilizing IT and AI.

【Reference Materials】 Winter-limited high-Brix tomatoes from Fukuroi City, Shizuoka Prefecture Scenes of tomato cultivation at Bigroots Farm Award certificate of the 5th National Mini Tomato Championship