"The group [Toshiba] has announced plans to begin producing pesticide-free, long-life vegetables this summer in one of its idle facilities at Yokosuka, just south of Tokyo.
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Production management for lettuce, baby leaf greens, spinach and mizuna will mimic that used for the semiconductors it also makes. Overall the enterprise will be a high-tech one, with the facility deploying fluorescent lighting judged the best for vegetable growth, air-conditioning systems to maintain a constant temperature and remote monitoring systems to track growth.
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It also believes the business can achieve some scale. Toshiba, whose sales for the year to March were Y6.5trn, believes the vegetables business could pull in as much as Y300m and has not ruled out building a large plant factory outside Japan or selling equipment for growing plants."
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