Support for Those in Need of Food

Kubota Tractor Corporation, which conducts business in the U.S. where food banks originated, carries out food drives through local non-profit organizations to support people in need.

A food drive is an activity in which people bring surplus food to their workplaces and collectively donate it to local welfare organizations, facilities, and food banks. The donated food is provided free of charge to those in the community who are impoverished, as well as to facilities for children and the disabled. Food banks originated in the U.S. and people living there have been actively involved in food drives since the 1960s.

Kubota Tractor Corporation (KTC), a sales company of agricultural and construction equipment, is actively engaged in food drive activities for a local non-profit organization in Grapevine, Texas. Each year since 2020, KTC has donated non-perishable food, canned goods and other items as well as 1,000 U.S. dollars for purchasing turkeys and hams, or additional Thanksgiving items to distribute through the NPO called GRACE, and gave away over 480 meals including those for Thanksgiving Day.

Not limited to Texas, the company also conducts food drives in Ohio and Georgia through non-profit organizations. Except for some that are held every other year, these activities are carried out annually.

Great Plains Manufacturing, Inc. (GPM), an American implement manufacturer in the Kubota Group, participated in the Canstruction Competition in 2021.

The Canstruction Competition is a charity competition for artwork made up of canned goods. Following the competition, the unopened cans used in the artwork are donated to local food banks. With a group of 20 interns at the hub, GPM, donated 2,000 cans through the Canstruction Competition to the Food Bank of Salina, Kansas, where the company is based. Food Bank donations also continued in 2022.

Additionally, Kubota Engine America Corporation (KEA), which deals with engines and other products in Illinois, made a 670 U.S. dollar-donation contributed by employees to the Northern Illinois Food Bank in 2021. In 2022, KEA helped support mobile pantries, and packed holiday meal boxes.

Kverneland Group is an implement manufacturer that joined the Kubota Group in 2012. In 2020, one of the company's locations, the Nieuw-Vennep Plant in the Netherlands, first donated 50 food boxes to local food programs at Christmas time. The food boxes are filled with food and beverages for the holiday season and are given to the financially disadvantaged in Nieuw-Vennep.

The Kubota Group will continue to conduct activities contributing to achieving the No Poverty and Zero Hunger SDGs.