The R&D budget in the 5 main areas of the agri-food sector is KRW 180.7 billion for innovative growth and rural issue solutions
Smart farming upgrade (Total: 44 billion won: Existing 18.2, new 25.8) -Reduce labor and improve productivity through new technologies such as ICT, artificial intelligence, robotics, advanced agricultural machinery and renewable energy development in agriculture as a whole
▲ Smart farm(16.9 billion won) ▲ ICT convergence (4.8) ▲ Advanced agricultural machinery (10.7)
▲ Make agricultural energy efficient (11.7)
Nurturing agricultural science bio industry (Total: 48.6 billion won: Existing 38.8, new 9.8) -Support creating added value of agricultural science through agricultural science material industry, seed industry and the foundation to use microorganism genome
▲ Agricultural science (12.3) ▲ Seed industry (23.7) ▲ Microorganism genome (6.7)
▲ Use domestic core agricultural material (5.9)
Nurturing high value-added agri-food industry (Total: 45.8 billion won: Existing 26.1, new 19.6)
Nurturing high value-added food industry (Total: 30.4 billion won: Existing 11.7, new 18.7) -Systematically support exploring promising food and strengthen next-generation food processing, quality and safety management in order to secure competitiveness of core technology leading the future food industry
Build response system to climate change disasters and diseases (Total: 32.7 billion won: Existing 16.8, new 15.9) -Strengthen responsiveness to climate change and animal and plant diseases threatening the production of agricultural and livestock products and stable farm management
▲ Response to animal diseases (17.0) ▲ Response to crop virus, pest and disease (11.4) ▲ Agricultural foundation (4.3)
Promote improvement and participation to people’s quality of life (Total: 9.6 billion won: Existing 2.0, new 7.6) -Suggest agricultural and rural issues directly related to people’s daily lives and identify science-based solutions
▲ Living lab to address rural issues (2.0) ▲ Industrialization of response to livestock issues (7.6)