Technology Catalog Contributing to Production Potential and Sustainability in the Asia-Monsoon Region

Industry	Commodity	Status	Technologies	Contribution areas	Institution	Collaborating Organizations
Agriculture	Paddy rice	Implementation	“Prolonged midseason drainage” in paddy fields for maintaining agricultural production and decreasing greenhouse gas emissions	GHG emission reduction	NARO	Local public research organizations (Yamagata, Fukushima, Niigata, Aichi, Gifu, Tokushima, Kumamoto, Kagoshima) (Japan)
Agriculture	Paddy rice	Demonstration	Greenhouse gas emission reduction technology with the combination of biogas effluent application and multiple drainage in a rice paddy	GHG emission reduction	JIRCAS	Can Tho University (Vietnam)
Agriculture	Paddy rice	Demonstration	A method to estimate the reduction in life cycle greenhouse gas emissions from rice cultivation caused by the use of alternate wetting and drying	GHG emission reduction	JIRCAS
Agriculture	Greenhouse horticulture	Demonstration	Energy-saving low-carbon technology in greenhouse horticulture utilizing thermal energy in irrigation canals	GHG emission reduction	NARO	Geo-system Co., Ltd., Komatsu University, Kanazawa University (Japan)
Agriculture	Greenhouse horticulture	Demonstration	Improved CO₂ recovery and application equipment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and increase productivity in greenhouse horticulture by utilizing exhaust gases from heating and cooling equipment	GHG emission reduction, Labor productivity enhancement	AIST	Nara Prefecture Agricultural Research and Development Center, National Agriculture and Food Research Organization (NARO), Nippon Light Metal Company, Ltd. (Japan)
Livestock	Livestock	Demonstration, Implementation	Technologies for reducing greenhouse gas emissions from livestock waste	GHG emission reduction	NARO	Niigata University, Institute of Animal Production of Okayama Prefectural Technology Center for Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (Japan)
Livestock	Livestock	Implementation	Mitigation of methane emissions from local cattle using cashew nut shell liquid feeding	GHG emission reduction	JIRCAS	Can Tho University (Vietnam), SDS Biotech (Previous company name: Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd.), National Agriculture and Food Research Organization (NARO), Tokyo Institute of Technology (Japan)
Agriculture	Bamboo	Demonstration	A simple and accurate method for estimating soil carbon sequestration using biochar based on proximate analysis	GHG emission reduction, Biomass utilization	Ritsumeikan Univ., IWT-AkitaPU	Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences, NARO (NIAES), Industrial Technology Center of Wakayama Prefecture, Japan Biochar Association (Japan)
Agriculture	Oil Palm	Demonstration	Utilization by “Multi-Biomass Treatment Process” of unused biomass discharged from the palm oil industry	GHG emission reduction, Biomass utilization	JIRCAS	IHI Corporation, NISSIN SHOJI Co., Ltd., Panasonic Housing Solutions Co., Ltd. (Japan)
Agriculture	Agricultural residues	Demonstration	Low-cost, high-efficiency production of CH₄ and H₂ from agricultural residues through microbial saccharification and bio-methanation	GHG emission reduction, Biomass utilization	JIRCAS	IHI Corporation (Japan)
Agriculture	Sorghum	Implementation	A new F₁ high-sugar, high-biomass sorghum variety “ENRYU” supports decarbonization efforts	GHG emission reduction, Biomass utilization	Shinshu Univ., Nagoya Univ.
Agriculture	Wheat	Demonstration	Biological nitrification inhibition maintains wheat yield with reduced nitrogen fertilizer application	GHG emission reduction, Chemical fertilizer reduction	JIRCAS	University of the Basque Country (Spain), International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)(Mexico), Nihon University (Japan)
Agriculture	Paddy rice	Implementation	"Paddy Field Dam" that reduces flood damage downstream while maintaining agricultural production	Climate disaster mitigation	NARO	Toyo industry Co., Ltd. (Japan)
Agriculture	Paddy rice	Demonstration	Monitoring saline intrusion in rivers near paddy fields using satellite data	Climate disaster mitigation	JIRCAS
Agriculture	Disaster prevention	Implementation	“Disaster prevention support system for irrigation pond” to predict flood risk and share disaster information	Climate disaster mitigation	NARO	CORE CORPORATION, Industrial Technology Solution company, OSASI Technos, Inc., Nita Consultant Co., Ltd., Integrated Geotechnology Institute Limited (Japan)
Agriculture	Field crop	Implementation	Underdrain-drilling machine “Cut Drain”: Easy construction of subsurface drainage without additional materials	Climate disaster mitigation	NARO	HOKKAI KOKI Co., Ltd. (Japan)
Agriculture	Field crop, Agricultural residues	Demonstration	The “Cut-Soiler” tractor attachment easily constructs shallow subsurface drainage systems using agricultural residues such as rice and wheat straw	Climate disaster mitigation, Biomass utilization	JIRCAS, NARO	Indian Council of Agricultural Research(ICAR), Central Soil Salinity Research Institute(CSSRI)(India)
Agriculture	Paddy rice, Upland rice	Demonstration	International differential system to protect the rice production against rice blast diseases	Chemical pesticide reduction	JIRCAS	International Rice Research Institute (IRRI)(Philippines), Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, NARO (NIAS) (Japan)
Agriculture	Paddy rice	Implementation	Controlling disease in paddy rice seeds using hot water disinfection combined with pre-drying	Chemical pesticide reduction	TUAT
Agriculture	Sugarcane	Implementation	Propagation and distribution system of healthy seedcane as control measures against sugarcane white leaf disease	Chemical pesticide reduction	JIRCAS	Khon Kaen University, Department of Agriculture (DOA), Department of Agricultural Extension (DOAE), Office of Cane and Sugar Board of Thailand (OCSB)(Thailand)
Agriculture	Strawberry	Demonstration	Strawberry disease control with heat shock treatment	Chemical pesticide reduction	Ibaraki Univ.
Agriculture	Paddy rice	Demonstration, Implementation	Smart production systems contributing to productivity improvement in paddy rice cultivation	Labor productivity enhancement	NARO
Agriculture	Agricultural machinery	Demonstration, Implementation	Smart agricultural machinery in compliance with the Common Communications Standard (ISOBUS)	Labor productivity enhancement	NARO
Agriculture	Passion fruit	Implementation	A simple shoot-tip grafting practical method for virus-free passion fruit propagation at the farm level	Labor productivity enhancement	JIRCAS
Agriculture	Sago palm	Implementation	Removing seed coat tissues improves the germination rate, enabling seedling propagation to achieve the planned management of sago palms	Labor productivity enhancement, Resource management	Nagoya Univ.	Haluoleo University(Indonesia), Kurashiki University of Science and the Arts, Mie University, Rikkyo University (Japan)
Agriculture	Paddy rice	Implementation	Information and communication technology-based water management system for reducing agricultural water usage, agricultural labor, and electricity	Resource management, Labor productivity enhancement	NARO	National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), KUBOTA Corporation, SOFTECH Co., Ltd., Toyogawa Comprehensive Canal Land Improvement District (Japan)
Forestry	Timber	Demonstration, Implementation	Identification of wood species and provenance of timber to promote trade of legal timber	Resource management	FFPRI	Forest Research Institute Malaysia (FRIM), Forest Research Centre Sabah, Malaysia (Malaysia), Gadjah Mada University (Indonesia), Japan International Research Center for Agricultural Sciences (JIRCAS) (Japan)
Fisheries	Blood cockles	Demonstration	A simple calculation method of biological indices for blood cockle resource management through aquaculture fishing ground selection and harvest time determination	Resource management	JIRCAS
Fisheries	Tropical sea cucumber	Demonstration	Utilizing coconut fiber for the recovery of tropical sea cucumber resources	Resource management	FRA, OFCF Japan
Fisheries	Fisheries	Demonstration	Smartphone application to collect coastal fisheries and environmental information for adaptation to changes in the marine environment (FishGIS)	Resource management	FRA, PICES
Fisheries	Fisheries	Demonstration	ToroCam: A smartphone application for rapid collection of total length data required for fish stock assessment	Resource management	FRA
Forestry	Dipterocarp timber	Demonstration	An improvement method of selective logging criteria for dipterocarp timber species to maintain healthy tropical rainforests	Resource management, Forest conservation	JIRCAS
Forestry	Forest	Implementation	Easy-to-do monitoring method for soil erosion risk to maintain high productivity and water and soil conservation functions of forests	Forest conservation	FFPRI
Agriculture	Sugarcane	Implementation	TPJ04-768: A new sugarcane cultivar with high fiber (bagasse) productivity	Biomass utilization	JIRCAS	Department of Agriculture (DOA) (Thailand)
Agriculture	Erianthus	Implementation	JES1: A new Erianthus cultivar for biomass production	Biomass utilization	JIRCAS, NARO
Fisheries	Freshwater aquaculture fish	Demonstration	Aquaculture feed with the black soldier fly larvae easily grown from fruit residues as a protein source	Biomass utilization	JIRCAS	Living Aquatic Resources Research Center (LARReC)(Laos), Worldfish Cambodia (Cambodia), Ubon Ratchathani University (Thailand), University of Human Environments (Japan)
Fisheries	Penaeidae	Demonstration	A new aquaculture method of giant tiger prawn to improve profitability by utilizing unused biological resources as supplementary live feeds	Biomass utilization	JIRCAS
Livestock	Livestock	Implementation	Simple and highly sensitive detection kits for foot-and-mouth disease virus that can be used in the Asia-Monsoon region	Transboundary disease prevention	NARO
Livestock	Livestock	Demonstration	Simple and rapid diagnostic technology that can be used in the field to enable early quarantine measures for foot-and-mouth disease	Transboundary disease prevention	CADIC-UoM	Department of Livestock Development(DLD) of Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives (Thailand)
Food processing	Fermented rice noodles	Implementation	Maintaining an acidic condition can prevent liquefaction of fermented rice noodles	Food loss reduction	JIRCAS	Institute of Food Research and Product Development (IFRPD) of Kasetsart University (Thailand)

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