Jeonnam Province Announces Additional Recruitment for 'Smart Livestock ICT Pilot Complex'

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters, Reporter Yoon Jamin] Jeonnam Province announced on the 24th that it will hold an additional public contest for the ‘2020 Smart Livestock ICT Pilot Complex Project’ to promote sustainable livestock industry development by resolving livestock odor and disease issues.

The ‘Smart Livestock ICT Pilot Complex Project’ is a future-oriented, cutting-edge livestock complex project that integrates information and communication technology (ICT) to build smart barns and livestock manure treatment and quarantine management systems to address social issues in livestock such as environmental pollution, disease, and unauthorized livestock facilities, minimizing environmental pollution and disease occurrence while improving productivity.

This project is a public contest led by the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, selecting four additional sites nationwide. Each site will be developed on a scale of 15 hectares, with an investment ranging from 69.5 billion KRW to a maximum of 79.5 billion KRW per site over four years starting this year, creating specialized complexes for each livestock type (Hanwoo, dairy cattle, pigs, chickens, ducks).

The project budget per site includes 7.5 billion KRW for infrastructure development, 2 billion KRW for education and control centers, and 60 to 70 billion KRW for livestock facilities.

Applications are accepted until June 17, and applicants must form a corporation or cooperative through city or county offices and submit the relevant documents to the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs via Jeonnam Province.

The project recipients will be decided through a comprehensive evaluation by the Ministry’s evaluation committee composed of external experts in quarantine, manure management, ICT, and other fields.

Park Dohwan, Director of Livestock Policy Division at Jeonnam Province, stated, “With the selection of the Smart Livestock ICT Pilot Complex Project this year, we will establish a future-oriented, environmentally friendly advanced livestock complex to build a livestock industry model trusted by local residents and supply safe livestock products. We plan to develop two sites by 2024 to secure sustainable competitiveness in the livestock industry.”

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