Hwaseong City's Low-Cost Farm Equipment Rental Business 'Highly Popular'

Hwaseong City's short-term farm equipment rental business is gaining significant traction among farmers.

According to Hwaseong City on the 16th, the city's Agricultural Technology Center has been renting approximately 40 types and 60 units of expensive farm equipment—including soybean threshers, soybean cleaners, potato harvesters, sweet potato harvesters, combines, and pepper washers—to farmers for minimal fees over short periods of 1 to 3 days since October of last year.

This year, the farm equipment most commonly rented by small-scale field crop farmers was the soybean cleaner, with a rental fee of 1,000 won per 40kg bag of soybeans. A total of 67 farms have rented and used this equipment so far.

In addition, a total of 228 farms have utilized the center's short-term farm equipment rental service for items such as soybean threshers, potato harvesters, and sweet potato harvesters.

In addition to the short-term farm equipment rental business, the center conducts mobile farm equipment repair services for approximately 100 days per year, primarily in small villages for farmers who are inexperienced in operating farm machinery.

A Hwaseong City official stated, "The demand for short-term farm equipment rental is growing significantly, and there are concerns about safety accidents due to inexperienced equipment operation," adding "We plan to continuously expand the farm equipment rental business while thoroughly implementing safety training."