# Nikko Engei flower farm

Type: Company

Source: Supply Chain Intelligence Brief — https://getsupplybrief.com/entity/nikko-engei-flower-farm
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## Timeline

- **2026-08-09**: Early-morning harvest documented — Drone imagery captures Nikko Engei flower farm employees harvesting asters in the early morning in Nikko, Tochigi Prefecture.
- **2025**: Survey documents heat toll and schedule shifts — Japan Weather Association finds about 60% of farmers aged 20-50 suffered or knew of heatstroke, and nearly 60% shifted working hours.
- **2024**: Record farm heat deaths — A record 59 agricultural workers die from extreme heat in Japan, more than double the 2021 death toll.
- **2023**: Worker heatstroke triggers nocturnal shift — A part-time worker suffers heatstroke picking sunflowers in the greenhouse, prompting Iijima to move work to nighttime hours.
- **2016**: Rice farm converted to flowers — Motoaki Iijima converts his family's centuries-old rice farm in Nikko into a flower farm, about a decade before the reporting.

## Recent coverage (1 stories)

### Japan's farmers go nocturnal: 59 heat deaths force ag supply-chain reset
2026-08-19 11:07:04 · Sentiment: Negative · Impact: 6/10 · Sources: 2

Record heat deaths are forcing Japanese farms to shift harvests to nighttime, disrupting produce quality, cold-chain timing and wholesale windows. Supply chain planners sourcing Japanese flowers, asparagus and eggs should treat heat-driven schedule changes as a durable operational risk, not a seasonal blip.
Full story: https://getsupplybrief.com/story/japan-farmers-nocturnal-ag-supply-chain-reset

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