The awards ceremony for the ‘Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs Entrepreneurship Contest’, the 8th this year, was held on the 17th.

The ‘AI (Artificial Intelligence) Digital Twin Smart Agriculture Platform’, which provides necessary information to farmers by analyzing agricultural weather observation data and smart farm growth information, won the grand prize in the Agri-Food Public and Big Data Utilization Startup Contest.

On the 17th, the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs held an awards ceremony at the Korea Racing Authority for the 15 winning works in the 2023 Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs Public and Big Data Startup Contest. Winners will be provided with customized support, including office space necessary for starting a business, provision of public data, and expert advice.

According to this, the grand prize of the Minister of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs Award in the ‘Product and Service Development’ category was awarded to the ‘AI Digital Twin Smart Agricultural Platform’ of the ‘FarmConnect Team’. It received high praise for proposing a service that provides optimized growth environment information based on smart farm data. In order to derive the optimal environment to increase crop productivity in facility cultivation, it is important to quickly identify and control the farm environment. ‘FarmConnect Team’ provides weather information inside and outside the farm on a minute-by-minute basis based on basic agricultural meteorological observation data from the National Institute of Agricultural Sciences. In addition, we applied deep learning analysis technology to predict the future 48 hours, and developed a service that provides customized information to farmers needed for cultivation analysis based on smart farm farm data. The 'Public Egg Team' won the grand prize with 'SpyEgg', which combines public data (egg grading information) with data measured by a self-developed sensor and provides feedback through comparison with other farms. received. Broken eggs with cracks in their shells have a direct impact on the income of laying hen farms, and this service was developed to minimize the amount of shock the eggs receive by quantitatively measuring the impact of the production and distribution process.

In the ‘Idea Planning’ public data utilization category, ‘Stop the Stink!! Team’s ‘Environmental Improvement Solution through Recycling of Agricultural and Livestock Waste Resources’ won the grand prize. Using an AI-based odor reduction solution that predicts the temperature, humidity, and amount of manure in the livestock barn and provides information on when to replace the rug, the company manages the amount of ammonia generated and provides a rug demand prediction service. The grand prize went to ‘Shopoo Team’s ‘Food Photography Food Styling Service Platform for Small Business Owners’. This is a service that reduces costs and enhances the visual effect of food by providing food photos edited using artificial intelligence technology to restaurant companies in real time.

In the ‘Idea Planning’ farm map data utilization category, ‘Nozi Farm Team’s ‘Nozi Smart Farm Decision Support Service’ received the grand prize. This is a service that provides information such as weather conditions, outbreaks of diseases and pests, soil testing, and short-term forecasts in the area by inputting the user's lot information and crop information. ‘Pest and pest manager’ proposed by Jeong-im Jo received the grand prize. It is a service that provides real-time information on pest outbreaks, forecasts, forecasts, control methods, chemicals, and weather information for the user's region and crops.

The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs held a meeting immediately after the startup competition award ceremony and listened to the opinions of the winners for follow-up support. 

Won-seupvYoon, Director of Agricultural and Food Innovation Policy at the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, said, “The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs will more actively open public data from the perspective of consumers, while making efforts to make it easier for the public to use through quality management.”

Reporter: Sang-Hyun Seo(seosh@agrinet.co.kr)

Written & Released on August 22th 2023

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