University Farm
The Field Production Science Center (FPSC) works for research and education in agricultural production science, crop physiology and crop ecology. Numbers of research themes in these disciplines are thorouphly studied in an integrated manner by the research staff in the FPSC.
The FPSC particularly focuses on sustainable agriculture and stress biology in the field science. The new mission of the FPSC is to attain further prosperity of whole humankind in the new millennium and to construct the framework of agriculture and its science for next generation in which the capacity of biological production is reinforced without degrading environmental conditions.
The FPSC was established in 1878 at the Komaba Campus (formerly Komaba Agricultural School) as an experimental farm, which consisted of both Japanese and European style fields for student education and research in agriculture. At present, the FPSC consists of two divisions; Tama headquarters with experimental farm of 22.2 ha in Nishitokyo, Tokyo.
The FPSC provides curriculum for the junior students to learn life cycles of agricultural crops and to experience farming, helping the students to apply theories of agricultural science into practice.
The FPSC also supervises the senior students and graduate students of master and doctoral courses for research.
The educational activity for the public citizens is also important function of the FPSC. We are holding several extension lectures in a year, which are addressed to the citizens living near to the FPSC, and also farming practices that are open to the primary school pupils and their parents.