Since the relocation, we have enhanced the facilities and equipment and improved the surrounding environment. In addition, we have promoted interdisciplinary and comprehensive joint research by industry, government, and academia, as well as collaboration with the local community, and we have undertaken projects for enhancing the functions of the new farm and revitalizing its operations.

The Kyoto University Farm Fund, established as an expansion of the Farm Fund of the University’s Graduate School of Agriculture, will be used for various projects with the aim of establishing a foundation for the future survival of humankind. As part of the projects, we plan to enhance project laboratories and project research fields, and broadly open up the recombinant field and other existing advanced facilities. Furthermore, as an education and research center for agriculture that is locally rooted but has global reach, we hope to lead academic development through responding to a wide range of social demands from researchers, academic research institutions, and companies involved in the fields of agriculture and botany, and by promoting industry-government-academia collaboration.