Carry Your Rice Fields Into the Next 100 Years.

RICE DAO is a rice-farming succession company. We take over rice farms that have no successor and handle everything from production improvement and rice branding to developing new sales channels. We do more than invest — we work alongside the business on the ground.

We use an investment structure that fully complies with the Agricultural Land Act. Our six-step process includes a legal review of the contract, and we work with specialists from the business review through contract signing, so you can proceed with confidence.

No. An initial consultation is simply a conversation. We start with an online meeting to hear your situation, then confirm the fit through an on-site visit. If you decide not to proceed at any point, there is no fee.

We protect employment. That is one of RICE DAO's core principles. We believe that maintaining local jobs and protecting the lives built around them is the foundation of a succession that lasts.

We do not erase company names as a rule. Your name, your way of growing rice, and your relationships in the community are part of the value of the business itself. Companies that anchor their region generally join the RICE DAO group while keeping their name, local brand, and the trust they have earned in the field. Employees, business partners, and cultivation methods stay, while RICE DAO supports sales, accounting, cash flow, hiring, capital investment, subsidies, and digitalization.

We do not make sudden changes in the field right after succession. We respect the rhythm of farm work and the trust built in the community, so the company name, local brand, farming methods, and relationships do not change abruptly. What changes is the management side: monthly profit visibility, production and cost management, labor management, sales channels, financing, hiring and training, and the use of subsidies and public loan programs. Full-scale improvements are phased in over one or two growing seasons.

We support production management, fundraising, sales channel development, and rice branding. At the same time, we do not believe in forced expansion. We work side by side with the field team while respecting the local community and its relationships.

We focus on three pillars: online sales, direct-to-consumer branded rice, and exports. In Yamagata, branding and a new sales approach helped achieve premium pricing. Together, we design the shift from simply producing rice to delivering it profitably.

Yes. Farm size is not the deciding factor. What matters is the desire to keep your fields alive. Please feel free to reach out.

Yes. We do not work only with incorporated farms. For family farms and farming associations, we can combine approaches such as unifying accounting, employment contracts, transferring farmland use rights, and contract farming, so we can carry on the business together. The structure stays flexible depending on your region and scale.

We focus on five regions — Tohoku, Kanto, Kansai, Chugoku, and Kyushu — building a core farming company in each region as we expand. If you are outside these regions, please feel free to contact us as well.

The flow is: inquiry, online meeting, on-site visit and NDA, business review, legal review of the contract, and completion. Because building trust and administrative procedures such as the agricultural committee's review take time, the whole process typically takes several months to about a year. In faster cases, contracts have been signed in two to three months, and succession has been completed in as little as about five months. We adjust to your situation, so please start with a consultation.