Raising Hanwoo Now in Smart Livestock Complex!… Hapcheon-gun Selected for Smart Livestock ICT Pilot Complex Project Competition

Conceptual Diagram of the Smart Livestock ICT Pilot Complex Project.

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Choi Soon-kyung] Hapcheon-gun, Gyeongnam Province, announced on the 29th that it was finally selected for the ‘2021 Smart Livestock ICT Pilot Complex Creation Project’ promoted by the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs.

The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs is promoting the Smart Livestock ICT Pilot Complex Creation Project to address social issues in livestock such as manure, odor, and disease, and to present a future-oriented livestock model.

This public contest project was selected through a step-by-step in-depth evaluation including review of business plans, on-site evaluation, and face-to-face evaluation by an evaluation committee composed of external experts.

The county plans to invest a total of 32.7 billion KRW, including 9.5 billion KRW for infrastructure such as site maintenance, roads, water supply, and electricity, and 23.2 billion KRW for constructing smart livestock barns and installing quarantine facilities, to create a smart livestock complex for 3,300 Korean cattle on an 18-hectare area in Ssangbaek-myeon by 2024.

Through this Smart Livestock ICT Pilot Complex Creation Project, ICT convergence technology will be applied to modernized barns to minimize odor and transform the breeding environment, feeding, and management into a data-based automated system.

Moon Jun-hee, the mayor of Hapcheon-gun, said, "With the creation of the Smart Livestock ICT Pilot Complex, we expect to relocate the odor-producing barns in the village to modernized barn facilities equipped with cutting-edge ICT equipment, becoming a clean and disease-free livestock facility."

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