Icheon Agricultural Technology Center Holds Demonstration Event for Auto-Steering Device Pilot Project for Riding-Type Farm Machinery

[Suwon Ilbo=Eom In-yong Reporter] The Icheon Agricultural Technology Center (Director Kim Dong-ho) held a 'demonstration event for the auto-steering device pilot project for riding-type farm machinery' in Bupyeong-eup on the 29th.

This demonstration event is part of a pilot project in cooperation with the National Institute of Crop Science and Gyeonggi Province Agricultural Technology Institute, and was organized to increase farmers' understanding of precision agriculture technology by attaching auto-steering devices to existing tractors and to expand the potential for practical field application.

Icheon is promoting three pilot projects in the field crop sector with a total budget of 2.9 billion won this year to expand strategic crops and establish a foundation for mechanization of field crops, while striving to expand the distribution of smart agriculture technology in open fields.

This project involves attaching an auto-steering kit to existing farm machinery and utilizing RTK correction signals to reduce straight-line driving errors.

Through this, precision in repetitive tasks such as fertilizer application, rotary tilling, and ridge formation can be improved, work duplication and omission can be minimized, and it is expected to help reduce driver fatigue from prolonged work.

Meanwhile, at the event, a resolution ceremony for appropriate fertilizer use and reduction of fertilizer use for agricultural environmental conservation was also held.