[Rural and Fisheries Science Newspaper=Reporter Kim Jeong-hee] The Hongseong County Agricultural Technology Center (Director Lee Seung-bok) won an excellence award in the '2025 Technology Dissemination Activation Excellence Case Competition in the Field of Food Crops' organized by the Rural Development Administration. According to the county on the 11th, this competition was held to share the excellent achievements in food crop technology dissemination among city and county agricultural technology centers nationwide, and to select and reward local governments with high on-site implementation effects. Hongseong County participated as the representative of Chungnam Province with the excellent case 'Finding the Answer on the Ground in Direct Seeding Cultivation of Rice' and was recognized for its systematic dissemination achievements of rice non-flooded direct seeding technology suited to local conditions, winning the national excellence award. The agricultural technology center is working on adapting to climate change and