"I do solar power, do farming". Successful rice cultivation under power generation facilities in South Korea
Rice
South Korea
Published Oct 7, 2020
Tridge summary
(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 over the function of solar power generation, and farmland should be preserved. For stable agricultural production activities, the selection of crops suitable for farmland under the solar power facility and development of cultivation methods should be preceded. The Jeonnam Provincial Agricultural Research and Development Institute conducted a study on related cultivation crops, and then tested and cultivated rice on the farmland under the agricultural solar power facility built in Boseong.
Original content
As a result of some recent harvesting of rice here, production of about 80% of the general field was expected, and it was evaluated that it does not restrict the operation of agricultural machinery even in the demonstration of harvesting the combine. It is expected that an average of 13.76 million won can be earned by adding rice income to the annual power generation income of 12.77 million won at a 100kW-class agricultural solar power facility. The Agricultural Technology Institute decided to use it to supply farming solar power facilities by evaluating the effect of arable land under the photovoltaic facility on the productivity and quality of crops, and developing a cultivation method. Ahn Gyu-nam, a researcher at the Food Crop Research Institute, Jeonnam Agricultural Technology Institute, said, "The power generation income ...
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