[2024 A Farm Show 창농·귀농 고향사랑 박람회]
The ‘Creating a Farm and Returning to Farming Hometown Love Fair’ hosted by the Bonbo and Channel A opens… Open until tomorrow
President Yoon “Agricultural Innovation with Cutting-edge Technology”… 300 Booths from Local Governments, Public Agencies, and Companies
‘Agtech’ Future technologies gathered in one place
The ‘2024 A FARM SHOW – Farming and Returning to Farming Hometown Love Fair’, where you can experience cutting-edge technologies that will lead the future of agriculture, was held on the 30th at the aT Center in Seocho-gu, Seoul, hosted by the Dong-A Ilbo and Channel A. Under the theme of ‘K-Agriculture, Creating the Future’, this A Farm Show introduced a number of cutting-edge technologies that will lead innovation in agriculture, such as a 33㎡ (approximately 10 pyeong) smart farm that can be installed in the yard, crop monitoring services using artificial satellites and artificial intelligence (AI), and agricultural machinery using robotics technology. Food and distribution industry officials who were looking around the technologies of AgTech (advanced agriculture) startups discussed the possibility of applying the technologies and even proposed a meeting for collaboration.
In a congratulatory address to the A-Farm Show read by Sung Tae-yoon, chief of staff to the president, President Yoon Seok-yeol said, “Our agriculture is facing various challenges, such as the decline in the agricultural population and the disappearance of rural areas.” He added, “To overcome these challenges, we must utilize cutting-edge technologies to innovate agriculture and develop rural areas into places with jobs and a good place to live.”
At the event venue that day, experts representing returning to farming and rural areas from 12 regional governments including Jeonbuk and Gyeongbuk and 54 basic local governments including Sinan in Jeonnam provided advice and counseling to those who visited A-Farm Show to start a new life in the countryside. Parents also visited the rural study abroad center, which was established for the first time this year, to get information on rural study abroad.
In places like Namhae German Village and Gwangyang Plum Village, where visitors can experience ‘village vacations’ (rural + vacation) through a virtual reality (VR) device, exclamations erupted continuously. In another corner of the exhibition hall, a shopping host sold fruits being sold at ‘A Farm Market’ in real time using two smartphones. Even offline, local specialties and unique traditional liquors caught the attention of visitors looking to purchase Chuseok gifts in advance.
The A-Farm Show, now in its 11th year, is the largest agricultural and farming exposition in Korea. The exhibition hall has a total area of 7,422㎡ and has over 300 booths from local governments, public institutions, and companies. The booths were crowded all day long with visitors who came to hear about cutting-edge agricultural technology cases from companies and explanations about rural study abroad from local governments. This exposition, which is the largest ever, will be held until the 1st of next month.
The ruling and opposition party members of the National Assembly’s Agriculture, Food, Rural Affairs, Oceans and Fisheries Committee spoke with one voice, saying they would join forces to develop rural areas. Rep. Eo Ki-gu of the Democratic Party of Korea, who chairs the Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs Committee, said, “We need to spend more on the budget for the future of K-agriculture,” and “I will do my best to revitalize agriculture and rural areas in the National Assembly.” Rep. Lee Man-hee of the People Power Party said, “I will do my best to secure financial resources for South Korea’s struggling agriculture and rural areas at the National Assembly level.”
Intelligent transport robots, smart farms with humidity and temperature control… I am amazed by ‘AgTech’
Crop Management with AI Learned from Satellite Images… “Predicting Production Amounts Will Help a Lot in Profits”
“How do you control the temperature and supply fertilizer?”… Young farmers who toured smart farms are flooded with questions
“A basil tree this big?” After the opening ceremony of the 2024 A-Farm Show on the 30th, attendees were filled with awe at the booth tour (viewing the event venue). Sung Tae-yoon, the policy chief of the presidential office, reached out to the three-tiered flower pots and touched the basil leaves. Song Mei-ryeong, the Minister of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, also picked a leaf from the stem and tasted it.
The basil trees under the white lights were grown in a 33㎡ (approximately 10 pyeong) smart farm introduced by the smart farm specialist company Sarafarm. Sarafarm also provides platform services that encompass various infrastructures and cultivation technology education to help novice farmers operate smart farms more easily. Kang Geon-wook, CEO of Sarafarm, said, “After hearing the explanation, there was a person who said he wished his son could do smart farms,” and “It costs about 65 million to 70 million won to install a 10 pyeong smart farm.”
On this day, at the A-Farm Show, the cutting-edge technologies of AgTech (advanced agriculture) companies, also known as the “Third Agricultural Revolution,” captured the attention of visitors. The intelligent transport robot “Botbox” from robot platform company Artwa delivered watering cans to attendees at the opening ceremony. When it recognized its location and travel distance and stopped in front of each flower pot, visitors responded with “amazing” reactions. The Botbox not only allows convenient transport of boxes containing harvested goods in orchards, but also fertilizers, reducing the burden of labor costs. Kang Dong-woo, CEO of Artwa, smiled and said, “The Botbox, which was developed in October of last year, made its official debut on stage for the first time through the A-Farm Show.”
Many people have shown interest in the services of SaeFarm, a satellite agricultural technology company. Mr. Park (42) from Goyang-si, Gyeonggi-do said, “I was surprised at how they could tell us the status of crop cultivation using only satellite images.” SaeFarm analyzes the current status of crops through AI that has learned from 220 domestic and international satellite images, and then determines and informs us of appropriate measures. Currently, 1,048 farms across the country are using the service.
Questions from visitors continued at Barca, a company that makes money by predicting crop production using satellite images and AI. Barca has a business structure that predicts production and makes profits by contracting in advance when production is low. Ms. Lee (38) said, “If we can accurately predict production, I think we can make quite a bit of profit.” Barca has become a hot topic for predicting soybean and corn production in the U.S. with the same accuracy as the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Gyeongnong, an agricultural industry specialized company with 70 years of history providing integrated and complex agricultural solution services, especially caught the attention of aspiring young farmers. The young farmers asked many questions while looking around Gyeongnong’s smart farm, which automatically controls the temperature and humidity inside the smart farm and automatically supplies fertilizer and water. Gyeongnong’s President Lee Seung-yeon (Head of Future Strategy Headquarters), who visited the A-Farm Show that day, said, “We are preparing for precision future agriculture by advancing into smart farms and smart greenhouses that incorporate cutting-edge information and communication technology,” and “We will be able to contribute to high value-added agriculture and even the food problem of humanity by going beyond convenient farming.” Gyeongnong sells various equipment necessary for smart farms, such as seeds, fertilizers, natural enemies, and insect sprinklers.
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