South Korea unveiled an AI agenda to boost farm productivity and improve farmers’ quality of life, the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs and the Ministry of Science and ICT announced.
The plan expands smart farms to cover distribution and daily lives and aims to extend benefits from a few high-performing farms to farmers nationwide.
It sets 13 policy tasks and includes shared smart farm machinery centers and a NEXT Farm program to develop autonomous machines and drones jointly with the Rural Development Administration.
The government plans 300 smart Agricultural Products Processing Centers by 2030 with three sites due this year.
Two slaughterhouses processing pork will be designated this year to introduce AI-based grading systems, and the technology will be expanded to the country’s 52 beef processing facilities.
Officials aim to raise the share of pork and beef graded using AI from 19.4% in 2025 to 70% by 2030 and to increase smart rural communities to at least 100 by 2030.
Originally written by: Grace Priscilla Teo
Source: Tech In Asia
Published on: 12 March 2026
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