Gyeongbuk Yeongyang-gun Distributes Frost Damage Prevention Facilities for Fruit Trees

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[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Kim Gwiyeol] The Agricultural Technology Center of Yeongyang-gun, Gyeongbuk, is promoting a pilot project to install and distribute ‘Yeolbang Sangpan’ to apple farming households every year to minimize cold damage and frost damage caused by abnormal weather during the flowering period.

With a total project cost of 100 million KRW, including 50 million KRW in national funds, 20 units will be distributed to 10 habitual frost damage areas such as valleys and cold air stagnation zones.

Spring fruit tree frost damage is increasing every year due to abnormal weather, resulting in symptoms such as flower buds turning black and necrotic or pistils and stamens in the flower center browning due to low temperature and frost from the budding period to the flowering period, significantly reducing the fertilization rate.

The Yeolbang Sangpan is a facility where fans rotate, detect temperature, and operate automatically, circulating stagnant cold air at a height of 6 to 8 meters, and additionally using a boiler as a heat source to raise the overall temperature of the orchard when the temperature drops. Each unit covers an operating range of about 700 pyeong and has been expanded and distributed since 2021.

Im Sukja, director of the Yeongyang-gun Agricultural Technology Center, said, “Worried about the increasing damage to fruit farmers due to low temperatures and frost caused by abnormal weather every year, we will continue to discover various pilot projects that can proactively respond to climate change.”

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