KT Completes Construction of Korea's Largest Dewdrop Mushroom Smart Farm in Collaboration with GN Bio
Development and utilization of the 'Dewdrop Mushroom Smart Farm Solution' capable of automated cultivation under optimal conditions

KT announced on the 24th that it has built the largest 'dew pine mushroom smart farm' in Korea in cooperation with agricultural company GN Bio (CEO Kim Young-chan).

The dewdrop mushroom smart farm established by the two companies consists of 11 dome houses (1,800 m²) and is located in Ibanseong-myeon, Jinju-si, Gyeongsangnam-do. With the application of the KT GiGA Smart Farm solution, growing environments such as temperature, humidity, and CO2 can be automatically controlled throughout all four seasons.

In addition, the Dewdrop Mushroom Smart Farm is utilized to develop the 'Dewdrop Mushroom Smart Farm Solution,' which enables automated cultivation under optimal growth conditions.

KT's big data analysis engine combines and analyzes GN Bio's farming know-how, including growth conditions, yield, and quality of dewdrop mushrooms, with real-time environmental information and harvest performance accumulated from the dewdrop mushroom smart farm to derive the optimal 'Dewdrop Mushroom Smart Farm Solution'.

The 'Dew Mushroom Smart Farm Solution' scientifically analyzes and digitizes cultivation knowledge acquired through the experience of existing farmers, and automatically controls various farm facilities to suit the optimal growth environment, enabling even novice farmers to easily produce and secure an income of at least a certain amount.

Moving forward, the two companies plan to expand the application of smart farm facilities from the dewdrop mushroom growth facility to a cultivation facility, providing farmers with healthy and highly productive spawn through thorough environmental control based on data collection starting from the spawn cultivation stage.

"The Dewdrop Mushroom Smart Farm will be an opportunity to expand smart farming by increasing farm productivity. Based on this, we plan to pursue global expansion using purely domestic technology, targeting countries like China, which consumes a lot of shiitake mushrooms, in the future agricultural environment where large-scale smart farm theme complexes are being developed and FTAs are expanding," said Song Jae-ho, Senior Vice President and Head of Future Business Development at KT.

Minister of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs Lee Dong-phil, who attended the smart farm completion ceremony on the 24th, said, “Returning farmers also "The development of a system capable of stable production is highly significant," he said, encouraging farmers and officials from both companies to "strive to develop and distribute more affordable mushroom smart farm models."

Meanwhile, KT launched the 'KT GiGA Smart Farm' solution last May, which reduces the cost of building smart farm facilities by up to 40% and improves greenhouse facility control performance, and is striving to expand smart farms by alleviating the burden of initial investment costs for farmers.