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Unused Tokyo tunnel gets new life as underground veggie farm

Stable temperatures cut electricity bills by two-thirds at automated plant

It is hoped the fully automated underground farm in Chiba Prefecture will be able to produce 5,000 vegetables a day.

CHIBA -- Tell anyone you think vegetables will soon be emerging from the ground on a conveyor belt and they will more than likely think you are mad. But that is exactly what will soon start happening in a Tokyo suburb.

Conveyor manufacturer Itoh Denki and electronics maker Fujitsu have set up an automated underground vegetable farm in a disused utility tunnel in Chiba Prefecture, just east of the Japanese capital.

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