Watermelon and tomato intercropping 'joint farming'... income per farm tripling, a fresh breeze.

By advancing the harvest with facility cultivation of watermelons and increasing average income to 400 million won for late-season tomato farmers by reducing labor costs In Bonghwa County, Jaesan-myeon, Gyeongbuk, which was busy with watermelon farming in the summer, is now enjoying great joy with the harvest of tomatoes. The Jaesan Tomato Cultivation Association (Representative Kim Yoon-ha), a farming corporation in Jaesan-myeon, Bonghwa County, has introduced a cooperative farming model promoted by the Gyeongbuk government since last year. Twenty-six farms have joined forces to cultivate watermelons and tomatoes in a double cropping system, and the farming method has changed dramatically with the addition of a joint collection center and an automatic sorting machine. By switching from open-field watermelon cultivation to facility cultivation, the harvest time was advanced, and after the harvest, tomatoes were planted as a late-season crop, increasing farm income threefold, with ...