Icheon City 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 City Agricultural Technology Center (Director Kim Dong-ho) held a 'demonstration event for the auto-steering device pilot project for riding-type farm machinery' in Bupbal-eup on the 29th.

This demonstration event is a pilot project conducted in coordination with the National Institute of Crop Science and Gyeonggi Province Agricultural Technology Center, designed to enhance farmers' understanding of precision agriculture technology and expand the possibility of on-site application by attaching an auto-steering device to existing tractors.

Icheon City is currently implementing three pilot projects in the upland crops sector with a total budget of 298 million won this year to expand strategic crops and establish mechanization infrastructure for dry-field agriculture, while actively promoting the dissemination of open-field smart farming technology.

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

Through this technology, it is expected to improve the precision of repetitive tasks such as fertilizer application, rotary tilling, and ridge forming, and minimize work duplication and omission, while also helping to reduce driver fatigue from long working hours.

Meanwhile, at the event, a commitment ceremony for proper fertilizer use and reduction of fertilizer use for agricultural environment conservation was also held.