Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs to promote ‘R&D project to solve agricultural and rural problems’ starting next year

The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs announced on the 8th that it will promote research and development (R&D) projects to resolve difficulties in agriculture and rural areas starting next year.

The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs is recruiting local governments to participate in the project until the 20th. The role of local governments is to discover local issues and develop technology and conduct field demonstrations together with private research institutes and farmers.

The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs has identified a total of 79 field problems and prepared 13 candidate tasks, and plans to select 7 of them and support up to 2 billion won (including local expenses) per task.

In addition, the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs is also promoting R&D projects to resolve technological difficulties of young start-ups and agricultural companies.

A total of 2.9 billion won will be provided to this project for 12 projects next year.

The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs emphasized, "It is significant in that it breaks away from the existing research institute-centered research and development method and brings together local governments, private research institutes, and farmers to come up with solutions to field problems."