Suncheon City Launches 'Jeonnam-style Balanced Development 300 Project' Signal Fire

Standardization of Young Ginseng Smart Farm Cultivation

Successful Development of Culture Solution 'Smart Kelp GO'

Suncheon City, Jeollanam-do (Mayor Noh Gwan-gyu) and the Suncheon Biohealthcare Research Center Foundation (hereinafter referred to as Suncheon Bio Center), a public institution funded by Suncheon City, announced that they have successfully developed a smart farm cultivation culture solution as part of the 「Jeonnam-type Balanced Development 300 Project」, a large-scale Jeollanam-do project worth 30 billion KRW, which was finally selected last July.

The city is promoting ‘Green Bio’ as one of its five major strategic industries and plans to develop the Seungju-eup area, which is facing a population extinction crisis, into a bio-conversion green bio specialized complex through the ‘Bio-conversion Industry 111 Project’.

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In addition, the Suncheon Bio Center was selected for the Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries’ ‘Promising Technology Scale-up Project’ in 2022 and succeeded in developing kelp culture solution manufacturing technology after extensive research and development.

Utilizing seaweed such as kelp and sea mustard discarded by the company ‘Badapumae’ located in Wando-gun, Jeollanam-do, the technology was developed with the goal of creating and industrializing a culture solution used in smart farm plant cultivation. On the 20th, a technology transfer agreement ceremony was held for the ‘Smart Farm Sapling Ginseng Cultivation Nutrient Solution Composition Containing Fermented Kelp Culture Solution’.

Bio-conversion, the core technology of Suncheon’s bioindustry, requires standardized raw materials. As the first achievement toward this, the kelp culture solution (Smart CalfGO) manufacturing technology developed by Suncheon Bio Center, which can be linked to smart farms, holds a significance beyond conventional standardization.

Using the kelp culture solution specialized for sapling ginseng not only induces amplification of specific saponins in sapling ginseng but also enables conversion into a new high value-added standardized raw material through microorganisms, unlike sapling ginseng distributed for consumption in the market.

Mayor Noh Gwan-gyu of Suncheon said, “The successful manufacturing technology of the standardized culture solution for sapling ginseng smart farm cultivation will serve as a cornerstone for the upcoming Jeonnam-type Balanced Development 300 Project’s ‘Bio-conversion Industry 111 Project,’ and we expect that Suncheon’s bioindustry will grow further through this bio-conversion standardized raw material production technology.”

Meanwhile, Suncheon City is collaborating with Suncheon National University to secure the main designation for the ‘Glocal University 30’ project, which supports 100 billion KRW in funding over five years, and announced plans to lead regional and university co-growth by establishing a Green Bio Venture Campus with Suncheon National University in the future.

Suncheon = Lee Yeon-kyung, Honam Reporting Headquarters, Asia Economy hss79@asiae.co.kr

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