Digital Solution
Seowon Farm - ICT-based Smart Swinery

country 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)

Main DS webpage

DS links to Government programmes, initiatives, and projects

DS Links to FAO, UN and other Development agencies projects, initiatives and programmes

Other relevant links and information sources on DS

Link to Digital village

Link to Digital initiatives