Activity of The [a-tori-net] Project

～2019: Saddened by the entrapment incidents involving waterfowl in the lotus fields, he began his own investigation into the causes of entrapment incidents and research into bird-prevention nets that are difficult for wild birds to entrap.
February 2019: Registered a regular hexagonal knotted net as a utility model for "a bird prevention net that prevents wild birds from ensnaring'' (Jitto 3221558).
March 2020: Research project [Research on webs that are difficult for wild birds to traverse -Thinking about bird nets to protect wild birds -] is the 2019 Bird Award of Certified NPO Bird Research Selected as a project to be supported by the Research Support Project.
March 2021: Research project [Research on webs that are difficult for wild birds to traverse] Thinking about bird nets to protect wild birds] Report submitted.
We categorized wild bird entrapment accidents in lotus fields into two types: entanglement type and put-in type, and found that put-in type entrapments accounted for the majority of entrapment accidents.
June 2021: Filed a patent application for a technology that enables knitting of regular hexagonal knotted nets: "Method for forming knots in knotted knitted nets, its manufacturing method, and manufacturing apparatus.''
December 2022: The above patent application will be published (Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2022-182921).
June 30, 2023: This project's proposed "bird prevention net for lotus fields and feeding damage control DB service to deter wild bird encroachers'' is a project that aims to solve regional issues in Ibaraki Prefecture (regional revitalization, agricultural promotion, environment-related). Recognized, it has been decided that https://www.pref.ibaraki.jp/shokorodo/sangi/chiikikadai.htmlIbaraki Prefecture will receive regional problem-solving startup support funds in 2023.
From July 1, 2023: This project has been named Project, with the aim of starting a business to spread the use of bird-prevention nets to "protect wild birds" and to prevent damage caused by wild birds from eating lotus roots. Then, we begin our activities in earnest.