SEOUL, May 23 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Innotek unveiled plans yesterday to develop AI smart farm technology that would make unmanned poultry farms possible. A joint venture with the National Institute of Animal Science, the new project will utilize big data on poultry as well as innovations such as deep learning and high-tech camera sensors. [...]
SEOUL, May 18 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of “smart” farms integrated with the latest ICT technology has increased significantly recently, spurring a concomitant rise in productivity. This is according to the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, which announced these results at the Korea Innovation Growth Symposium held yesterday at the R&D Complex [...]
SEOUL, April 17 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean government has announced plans to create 4,300 jobs in the smart agriculture industry by 2022. The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs revealed measures to attract young workers into smart farming by providing training courses and building large-scale smart farm complexes during a meeting with financial [...]
CHUNGJU, South Korea, April 24 (Korea Bizwire) – Chungju, North Chungcheong Province, is making optimistic progress with its smart farm initiatives. The city launched the project in 2015 by equipping a laboratory at the local Agricultural Technology Center with ubiquitous information technology (u-IT). The horticulture lab, used mainly for plant research and production, can monitor [...]
SEOUL, July 6 (Korea Bizwire) – LG CNS Co., an IT affiliate of South Korea’s LG Group, said Wednesday that it will build a farming complex based on information and communications technologies (ICT) on a vast tract of reclaimed land on the nation’s southwest coast. The complex, dubbed “Smart Biopark,” will span about 76 hectares [...]
SEJONG, March 29 (Korea Bizwire) – The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs announced the development of ‘smart farm’ technology, which equips existing dairy farms with information and communications technology (ICT). Equipment that helps enhance productivity in breeding farm animals, such as robot milking machines, automatic calf feeders, and self-regulation cattle bowls will be provided so [...]
SEOUL, Nov.27 (Korea Bizwire) – Small ideas that have the power to change an individual’s everyday life were presented at the ‘Creative Economy Expo’ held at COEX, on November 26. Featured products included 3D printers that only cost 290,000 won, fermented brown rice that includes lactic acid bacteria, and ‘Car-Talk’, which offers drivers of nearby [...]