(Jeonju=Yonhap News) Reporter Kim Jin-bang = The Rural Development Administration announced the 'Agricultural Science and Technology AI Convergence Strategy' on the 19th to address the practical challenges facing agriculture, such as climate change, aging population, and the risk of rural extinction. This strategy focuses on transforming agriculture from a traditional experience-dependent industry into a data and AI-based intelligent industry to dramatically increase productivity. Through this, the goals of improving farm income by 20%, reducing agricultural work risks by 20%, and shortening the development and dissemination period by 30% will be technically supported. Specifically, three major innovation strategies and ten key tasks will be promoted, including solving AI convergence agricultural science and technology issues, creating an AI ecosystem for technology-driven growth, and accelerating the entire process of rural development projects. In particular, the strategy moves ...