Gwangyang-si Takes Field Support Measures to Establish Smart Farms

Smart Farm in Your Hands: Promoting Greenhouse Environment Control Technology Training

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters, Reporter Heo Seonsik] Gwangyang City, Jeonnam Province, announced that it will conduct smart farm operation training for four weeks starting from the 27th to foster experts who will lead future agriculture by early establishing the operation of greenhouse environment control systems for farmers operating smart farms.

The trainees will be recruited on a first-come, first-served basis, selecting 10 people from farms that have installed smart farms through the single-span greenhouse smart farm complex project and the ICT convergence horticultural crop automation pilot project within the region, as well as farms interested in smart farms, from October 22 to 25.

This training will be held for the selected 10 farms at the Gwangyang Agricultural Technology Center's Smart Agriculture Testbed training center once a week for four weeks starting October 27.

The training consists of four sessions: two theoretical and practical sessions on operating the greenhouse environment control program and two on-site consulting sessions to adjust detailed programs according to the crop growth in the cultivation greenhouse. It aims to cultivate the ability of farmers operating smart farms to independently control the greenhouse environment according to their crops and greenhouse types, supporting them to become experts in future agriculture using smart farms and grow as leading smart farm farmers.

Recently, as local farmers' interest in smart farms and new income sources has increased, the Agricultural Technology Center (Technology Extension Division) plans to resolve farmers' difficulties by discovering new income sources that can increase farm income and conducting demonstration tests of hydroponic cultivation technologies for various crops using smart farms.

Meanwhile, Gwangyang City established the Smart Agriculture Testbed training center in the Agricultural Technology Center's greenhouse in October last year. Currently, through trial cultivation of crops such as zucchini and melon hydroponics, two-tier strawberry cultivation, banana, ginger, and apple mango, it is solving farmers' difficulties on-site and conducting demonstration tests to lead future agriculture.

Choi Yeonsong, head of the Technology Extension Division, said, "Through the Smart Agriculture Testbed training, it will be easy for farmers starting smart agriculture to access, and we plan to make it a training center essential for farmers."

He added, "We will do our best to lead regional agriculture by fostering income crops through the expansion of smart farms in the future."

Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters, Reporter Heo Seonsik hss79@asiae.co.kr

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