Gyeonggi Province Agricultural Technology Institute Develops Smart Facility Cultivation Technology for Medicinal Herbs

Published 2025년 6월 30일

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The Gyeonggi-do Agricultural Technology Institute is embarking on developing smart facility cultivation techniques to establish a stable production foundation for four medicinal herb crops including basil, Angelica keiskei, Angelica gigas, and Perilla frutescens. While medicinal crops are widely used in traditional herbal medicine, food, health functional foods, and cosmetics, the province's medicinal crop production has decreased by more than 55%, dropping from 2,253 tons in 2011 to 1,022 tons in 2023, making technological improvements urgently necessary. Accordingly, the provincial agricultural technology institute has been collecting and operating cultivation fields for 26 types of medicinal crops including Salvia miltiorrhiza, Angelica keiskei, and Angelica gigas since last year.

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The Gyeonggi-do Agricultural Research and Extension Services is embarking on smart facility cultivation technology development to establish a stable production foundation for four medicinal herb crops including basil, Angelica keiskei, Angelica acutiloba, and Perilla frutescens. Medicinal crops, traditionally used as herbal medicines, are utilized across a wide range of applications including food, health functional foods, and cosmetics. However, the province's medicinal crop production has decreased by more than 55%, dropping from 2,253 tons in 2011 to 1,022 tons in 2023, making technological improvements urgent. Accordingly, the provincial agricultural research institute has been collecting and operating cultivation plots for 26 types of medicinal crops including Salvia miltiorrhiza, Angelica keiskei, and Angelica acutiloba since last year. From this year, they are conducting smart cultivation research on four medicinal herb crops—basil, Angelica keiskei, Angelica acutiloba, and ...

Source: Agrinet