An innovative farmer created a planting machine using Japanese technology.

Ales Cadez, barely 30 years old, is an example of a modern farmer. He was recently awarded the Innovative Young Farmer of 2025 prize. A Slovenian by profession, he is a chef. He is also a karate practitioner and vegetable producer. For nine years now, he has been growing over 50 types of vegetables on the family farm in Poljanska Valley, and this year he managed to attract the attention of the entire agricultural community with his new planting machine created using Japanese technology, reports Finance. Kozar created a modern collar to ward off wolves Cadez developed the machine in collaboration with the company Lavrih. The result is a Polish seeder adapted to the innovative "paperpot" system—a method that the farmer discovered during a trip to Japan for a karate competition. Transplanting seedlings is now much faster and gentler on the plants, and we save both substrate and water, explains Ales. Instead of plastic pots, he uses paper ones linked in a chain. They decompose in the ...