Sharing Pilot Project Results by Sector for Information Exchange Among Farmers
Yangju City held the "2024 Rural Guidance Pilot Project Comprehensive Evaluation Meeting" on the 25th at the Agricultural Technology Center's main conference room, with about 90 attendees including pilot project farmers, agricultural research members by item, and related personnel. Yangju City, Gyeonggi Province (Mayor Kang Su-hyun) announced on the 28th that it held the '2024 Rural Guidance Pilot Project Comprehensive Evaluation Meeting' on the 25th at the Agricultural Technology Center's main conference room, with about 90 attendees including pilot project farmers, agricultural research members by item, and related personnel.
This evaluation meeting was organized to share the results of 24 types of 32 pilot projects, gather opinions on issues and improvements, and actively reflect them in the 2025 pilot projects.
The event included presentations of excellent cases by farmers, status reports on rural guidance pilot projects by sector, education on excellent agricultural product management and subsidy post-management, and comprehensive discussions to collect farmers' opinions. Banners for each pilot project and agricultural products produced at the project sites, as well as taste tests of rice by variety, were also conducted.
This year, the city focused on major pilots such as a comprehensive technology pilot for labor-saving using digital rice cultivation technology, a rare transplanting pilot to reduce rice production costs, establishment of a paddy soybean production system and expansion of new varieties, application of temperature reduction technology during high-temperature periods for vegetables, ginseng, and livestock to respond to abnormal climate, establishment of an automatic sorting system by the pear agricultural cooperative corporation to create a pear export complex in northern Gyeonggi, and introduction of smart farm technology to crops like cucumber and tomato to reduce management costs and improve productivity. A total of 1.442 billion KRW was invested in 24 types of 32 sites, achieving various results.
In particular, Baek Jong-gwang, a farmer in Maegok-ri, Nam-myeon, who promoted the rare transplanting pilot project to reduce rice production costs, said, "By reducing the number of seedling trays to one-third to save labor and production costs, we achieved a 60% reduction in production costs, which greatly helped increase farm income."
Mayor Kang Su-hyun said, "I express my gratitude to the farmers who quietly did their best in the farming field despite difficult weather conditions such as the prolonged heatwave this summer due to recent abnormal climate," and added, "We plan to continuously discover and distribute customized new technology projects by crop that can respond to the rapidly changing agricultural environment."
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