Goheung Smart Farm Innovation Valley, Practicing Neighborly Love

Published 23 Mar.2023 17:13(KST)

Sharing Practices Including Tomatoes at Local Dream Start

Gohung-gun, Jeonnam Province (Governor Gong Young-min) announced on the 23rd that youth trainees at the Smart Farm Innovation Valley delivered 340kg of agricultural products, including tomatoes and melons, worth approximately 2 million KRW, promoting a sharing event for neighbors.

The third group of trainees recruited and selected last year delivered 160kg of tomatoes and 180kg of melons and strawberries, produced directly in a 1,500-pyeong nursery greenhouse, to children targeted by the local Dream Start program, allowing them to enjoy the joy of harvest while supporting the healthy and happy growth of the children.

[Photo by Goheung-gun]

One trainee who participated in the sharing event said, “It was a meaningful time to have the opportunity to grow agricultural products directly through the Smart Farm Youth Nurturing Project and to gain various learnings by participating in social contribution activities through sharing.”

At the Smart Farm Innovation Valley, plans are underway to create programs that invite vulnerable groups in the region to directly harvest and experience agricultural products, not just simple sharing, to spread the public value of agriculture and to motivate trainees’ practical training.

A county official said, “While nurturing young people trained at the Innovation Valley into professional smart farm farmers, we will spare no professional and systematic support so that they can grow into talents who practice sharing in the local community.”