Canola Flowers in Full Bloom at Homigot...
Buckwheat Fields to Follow After April 20
Expansion Planned to 100 Hectares,
Full Effort on Developing Tourism Content
Pohang City has successfully established 'landscape agriculture' by planting flowers and other crops in the Homigot Sunrise Plaza area each season, achieving both the attraction of tourists and the revitalization of the local economy.
On the 10th, Lee Gangdeok, Mayor of Pohang, visited the canola flower scenic complex. Photo by Pohang City
Landscape agriculture is an agricultural-tourism convergence model that creates beautiful scenery using landscape crops such as canola flowers, buckwheat flowers, and young barley, and utilizes them as tourism resources.
The city has successfully led landscape agriculture by transforming rice paddies along the Homigot coast, where crop cultivation is difficult due to sea winds and typhoons, into seasonal flower fields instead of rice farming.
On the weekend of the 12th and 13th, about 150,000 tourists visited the Homigot landscape complex, proving the popularity of the canola flower fields.
Since 2018, Pohang City has started cultivating landscape crops on 33 hectares (330,000 square meters) in the Daebori area, and has now expanded to 50 hectares (500,000 square meters), offering a variety of attractions.
This year, canola flowers can be viewed until April 20, after which the landscape will be newly decorated with buckwheat. Especially from the end of May, colorful celosia will be planted in the space next to the plaza, presenting a unique landscape until autumn.
Infrastructure for the convenience of tourists is also being continuously expanded. The city has installed pavilions, photo zones, walking trails, and benches, and is actively promoting the area in connection with nearby tourist attractions such as Sunrise Plaza, the Hand of Harmony, the National Lighthouse Museum, and the coastal road drive course, thereby boosting the local economy.
Pohang City plans to expand the Homiban-do landscape agriculture complex to 100 hectares (1,000,000 square meters) in the future.
Mayor Lee Kangdeok visited the Homiban-do landscape agriculture complex on the 10th to inspect the site and asked officials to work on developing tourism content linked to landscape agriculture. On the 14th, Vice Mayor Jang Sangkil visited the site to explore ways to revitalize the local economy through landscape agriculture.
Mayor Lee Kangdeok said, "Landscape agriculture is a good example of showing a new role for agriculture and is an effective strategy to enhance the region's competitiveness by linking it with tourism. We will spare no administrative support so that Pohang can offer differentiated attractions for tourists and tangible income improvement for local farmers."
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