Hwaseong Mayor Jung Myung-geun Demonstrates Rice Planting

[Suwon Ilbo = Lee Su-won Reporter] Hwaseong Mayor Jung Myung-geun held a rice planting demonstration event at the Agricultural Technology Center on the 16th.

Held as the main rice planting season approaches, the demonstration event was attended by roughly 100 people including Mayor Jung, city council members, agricultural cooperative officials, related agencies, and farming organizations. The event featured △rice test field planting △introduction of new varieties and regional variety adoption trends △autonomous agricultural machinery demonstrations and other programs.

In particular, Mayor Jung Myung-geun personally boarded an autonomous transplanter to experience advanced farming technology firsthand.

"Recently, each municipal government in Gyeonggi Province is introducing various new rice varieties to enhance the competitiveness of their regional brand rice," said Mayor Jung. "We will further strengthen the competitiveness of Hwaseong's representative brand Suhyangmi rice while distributing diverse varieties to actively respond to changing rice consumption trends."

He continued, "Rural areas are facing increasingly difficult agricultural conditions due to an aging population and labor shortage. If autonomous driving technology can be applied to agricultural machinery, it will greatly help improve the farming work environment. Going forward, we will develop various policies to support the introduction of advanced technology and improve farmers' income and welfare."

Meanwhile, the event introduced recent new varieties, regional variety adoption trends, drone direct seeding, and autonomous transplanter and tractor technologies.