RaonPeople Participates in Government Project to Build AI Data for Plant Disease Detection Worth 2.5 Billion KRW

[Asia Economy Reporter Hyunseok Yoo] AI specialist company RaonPeople announced on the 20th that it will participate in the ‘2021 AI Training Data Construction Project’ funded by the government with a budget of 2.5 billion KRW, specifically in the ‘Integrated Data on Plant Disease Causes’ construction project.

RaonPeople collects over 600,000 data images including those of healthy crops as well as diseases, nutritional disorders, and growth disorders through AI deep learning. It analyzes temperature, humidity, carbon dioxide, and solar radiation to identify the optimized growth environment, and builds related data such as disease and nutritional disorder prediction and diagnosis, which will be provided to farms, agricultural and livestock-related institutions, and affiliated companies.

RaonPeople has already built agricultural product data such as strawberries and apples through its AI smart farm solution (RaonFarm), enabling farm owners to monitor crop status and detect issues in real time via app or web, responding accordingly with the AI solution. In this project, the plan is to improve the agricultural and livestock environment by increasing production efficiency through AI and intelligent ICT-based management, supporting not only smart management but also increased farm income.

The Ministry of Science and ICT and the National Information Society Agency, which oversee the project, will build AI datasets based on high-quality data collected and analyzed by participating institutions including RaonPeople. By opening the output data to the public and providing it to agricultural and livestock sites, they aim to prevent crop diseases and growth disorders, reduce damage, and revitalize the agricultural economy through intelligent innovation across the industry.

The ‘Integrated Data on Plant Disease Causes’ development project, part of the government’s core Digital New Deal policy ‘2021 AI Training Data Construction Project,’ is funded with a budget of 2.5 billion KRW. Industry-academia-research collaboration including RaonPeople, Jeonbuk Technopark, Gyeongsangbuk-do Agricultural Research and Extension Services, Nonghyup University Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation, Yeonam University Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation, and Farm Hannong will jointly conduct research and development until February 2022.

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