date:May 19, 2014
Toshiba Corporation today announced that it will add a new dimension to its healthcare business by starting production of pesticide-free, long-life vegetables in a closed-type plant factory that operates under almost aseptic conditions.
The company has begun construction of the plant factory at a facility in Yokusuka in Japan's Kanagawa Prefecture, and will start shipping lettuce, baby leaf greens, spinach, mizuna and other vegetables in the second quarter of 2014.
Annual sales are estimated a