"I do solar power, do farming". Successful rice cultivation under power generation facilities in South Korea

(Boseong = Yonhap News) Reporter Woonchang Yeo = Rice cultivation technology using farmland under the solar power facility is successful, and it is expected to expand crops and cultivation methods using this and increase farm income. The Jeonnam Provincial Agricultural Research and Development Institute announced on the 6th that it is about to be harvested by cultivating rice in the farmland below the farming solar power plant for the first time in Korea. Farming solar power is an agricultural technology in which agriculture and solar power generation systems coexist, and it is attracting attention as a new way to improve rural competitiveness through power generation income other than crop production profits. This facility was built on a scale of 100kW in Boseong-gun in June of last year, receiving 75% of the construction cost of about 200 million won with support from farmer policy financing. In the agricultural solar power generation business, agriculture should take precedence ...