EPIS is promoting smart farm ODA projects as well as ASEAN Food Security Information System (AFSIS) project to
assist developing countries to utilize Korea’s excellent smart agriculture technology.
* Smart farm is a farm that can properly manage and maintain the growing environment of crops and livestock
automatically or remotely by using ICT.
The purpose of EPIS’ smart farm ODA projects (Grant aid) is to improve the agricultural productivity of recipient countries and improve the
income of farmers through smart farm construction as well as training on smart agriculture.
The project aims at creating sustainable value chain through smart farm diffusion by carrying out specific tasks such as establishment
of smart farm, capacity building (invitational workshop and local workshop), expansion of markets and etc.
Should be a fully value-chain approach
As of November 2021, the projects are being promoted in a total of four countries
(the Philippines, Vietnam, Indonesia and Cambodia) of Southeast Asia.
| Country |
Philippines
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Vietnam
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Indonesia
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Cambodia
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name of Projects |
Establishing smart greenhouse and human capacity building with appropriate technologies for high value crops in the Philippines | A Pilot Project on Establishing a Smart and Safe Agro Value Chain in the Southern Region of Vietnam | Enhancing Millennial Farmers' Income by Adopting K-Smart Farm Technologies in Indonesia | Establishment of Smart Production Infrastructure for High Quality and Safe Agro Products in Kandal Province, Cambodia |
| Components | Smart farm construction(Including supply of equipment), dispatch of specialist, invitational training, long&short term local training, promotion, marketing |
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| Period | 2020 ~ 2023 | 2021 ~ 2024 | 2021 ~ 2025 | 2021 ~ 2024 |
| Region | Mindanao, Visayas | Da Lat, Hanoi | Bogor, Malang | Kandal Province |
| Representative Crops |
Tomato
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Strawberry
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Paprika
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Red pepper
|
| Characteristic | EPIS first smart farm ODA project | Improvement of local distribution system | Support for young farmers | Improving agricultural productivity in high temperature and low regions |
From 2022, EPIS will launch new smart farm ODA projects in Tashkent,
Uzbekistan and the northern region of Vietnam
| Country | Vietnam | Uzbekistan |
|---|---|---|
| Name of Projects | A Pilot Project on Establishing a K-Farm and Improving Pig industry Value Chain in the Northern Region of Vietnam |
Establishing a K-Farm with seedling and production system in Tashkent |
In regard to the official request of AFSIS secretariat to establish agricultural data collection and sharing in ASEAN region for enhancing food security (April, 2013), the Government of Korea approved international cooperation project titled ‘ASEAN+3 Food Security Information System (AFSIS) Cooperation’ and has been implemented since 2014. The project includes National Agricultural Information System (NAIS) development for on-line agricultural production and distribution data collection and pilot Food Security Forecasting Model (FSFM) using remote sensing and satellite images on specific crop items.
| Project title | - Establishing Real-Time ASEAN Food Security Information System and Developing Human Resources |
|---|---|
| Period | - 2014~2026 (p) * 3-phased projects |
| Objective | - Establishing environment for online agricultural data collection and capacity building for enhancing food security in the ASEAN region |
| Components | - National master plan development, National Agricultural Information System development, Agricultural ICT capacity building |
| Partners | - National cooperation: 6 countries (Vietnam, Indonesia, Laos, Philippines, Cambodia, Myanmar) - ASEAN cooperation : AFSIS Secretariat |
| Implementing Organization | - Korea Agency of Education, Promotion and Informative Service in Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (EPIS), Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs (MAFRA), Republic of Korea |
| Category | Phase 1 (Production) | Phase 2 (Distribution) | Phase 3 (Forecasting/EWI) | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ‘14 | ‘15 | ‘16 | ‘17 | ‘18 | ‘19 | ‘20 | ‘21 | ‘22p-‘26p | |||
| Target Country |
Laos
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Cambodia
Philippines
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Vietnam
Indonesia
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Myanmar
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Philippines
Laos
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Vietnam
Indonesia
|
Vietnam
Indonesia
|
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Laos
Cambodia
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Vietnam
Indonesia
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Philippines
Myanmar
|
| Compo-nents | Establishing environment for online agricultural production data collection (production, yield, production and cultivation area) | Establishing environment for online agricultural distribution data collection(stock, price, export & import etc.) | FSFM (pilot) development using remote sensing technology (production forecasting, monitoring, early warning system) | ||||||||
It also provides human capacity building program to 6 ASEAN member countries and AFSIS secretariat, which is composed of local training and invitational training in Korea, targeting to focus on policy decision-making and work performance increase on food security and agricultural ICT area. Through the seven years of capacity building program operation, 1,574 local government officials are successfully participated to enhance work competency in their workplace.
Further the on-line agricultural data collection, it also develops master plan for establishing Food Security Forecasting Model (FSFM) and implements pilot FSFM in Indonesia for its national strategic crop, sugarcane. The pilot is to develop spatial data registration and management system on visual and production forecasting model in West Java, Pasaleman, Indonesia.
In overall analysis of the project implementation, an ICT-based agricultural data management system, “NAIS”, creates a new work process on agricultural data collection which directly contributes work efficiency and cost reduction. As the existing method of manual data collection has transformed to ICT system that enables paperless data collection, the data collection time has reduced significantly.
The click rate of the NAIS system indicated 299,466 in 2020, which is increased of 2,116% compared to the last year. Also the number of data input showed 8,545, which is increased of 214% during the same period. More trained government officials responsible for agricultural data collection with enhanced knowledge are to be fostered through the future human capacity building program, the utilization and usage of the NAIS system is expected to keep growing in the future, that would ultimately enable prompt and timeliness food security response in the region. In phase 3, it will develop Food Security Forecasting Model (FSFM) based on remote sensing technology (Pilot) and information sharing on production forecasting of national strategic crops such as rice, sugarcane and soybean.
| Components | AFSIS Cooperation Project (Phase 3) |
|---|---|
| Master Plan | National mid- and long-term road map development, action plan development |
| FSFM on Strategic Crops (Pilot) | Establishing remote sensing information, crop growth indicators, agricultural statistics data collection and management, visualization, Database in pilot area Production forecasting model design, pilot demonstration and monitoring |
| NAIS system development and operation | |
| Information Sharing for Capacity Building | Invitational training, workshop and local training Sharing of project outcomes Experts dispatch on agricultural statistics, remote sensing and system operation |
