Seowon Farm - ICT-based Smart Swinery
Republic of Korea
Seowon Farm improves efficiency of swinery management through introduction of ICT-based facilities and equipment. While most pig farms are maintaining traditional manual feeding systems, Seowon Farm has implemented a smart swinery system that utilizes automatic sow feeders, air conditioners and other ICT equipment, to thereby become a model case for the industry. Its main functions include 1) Automatic feeders for sow breeding 2) Air conditioning for swinery temperature management 3) Microorganism liquid manure circulation system, for swinery odor reduction 4) Light intensity controls, for sows
Digital Solution (DS) Category
Digital Agrifood Services
Digital Solution Type (sub-category)
Supply chain management, Value chains management
Delivery type (format)
Internet of Things / sensors
DS supplier-user category
Business to business
Business to consumers
Type of entity (ICT developer-supplier)
Agritech company
Name of supplier/developer
Agricultural Corporation Q / Seowon Ranch
Primary Users
Farmers , Value chain actors
Digital Solution Development Stage
Commercial stage (broad use use locally)
Number of users or subscribers
Measurable positive impact(s) by Digital Solution (DS) on target users and/or audience
Improvements in pig farming productivity (Increases in annual rates both of farrowing and of piglets per sow)
Digital Solution Geographic scope
Boeun-gun, Chungcheongbuk-do Sangju, North Gyeongsang Province
Name of Digital village(s), districts, communes where DS is used/deployed
On-line resource links (Web-page links, links to videos, links to reports, etc)
Link to Digital village
Link to Digital initiatives