Korean smart farming needs to move past first-generation labor-saving automation into true data-driven agriculture — the case this in-depth feature makes, drawing on national survey figures and examining gaps in data collection and farmers' data rights.
JINONG CEO Park Heun-dong argues in the piece that climate change and an aging farm workforce are pushing experience-based farming to its limits. His prescription: technology that collects and analyzes farm data for timely decisions, and digitizing veteran growers' know-how so the next generation starts with fewer costly mistakes.
This summary was written by JINONG. See the original for the full story — most sources are in Korean.