Digital Solution
Farm Map

country Republic of Korea

The Farm Map digital solution improves efficiency in agricultural administration and farming, through the building of an aerial image-based digital farmland map. It improves accuracy and efficiency in farmland surveys, the operation of pest control drones, and other activities related to agriculture, by providing the actual locations of and block information on farmlands. The Farm Map is the first digital farmland map that provides farmland locations in the country. As the only map information service in the country, the Farm Map should be acknowledged for its originality. The private sector is also showing much interest in the service, as the number of cases of its utilization with drones is increasing. The Farm Map service uses ortho-images, administrative information and soil maps of the agricultural promotion areas in order to support management of the map-based agricultural promotion areas and reviews of candidate areas for the lifting of agricultural promotion area status based on their soil suitability and land slopes. The Farm Map has enabled the spatial information-based management of agricultural promotion areas, facilitated the establishment of an agricultural promotion area management system utilizing soil suitability grades and land slope, and supported preliminary inspections of candidate areas for the lifting of agricultural promotion area statuses through linkages to information on soil suitability grades5 , slopes of land, and land areas.

Digital Solution (DS) Category

Digital Agriculture

Digital Rural Services

Digital Solution Type (sub-category)

Farm management services, Drone farm services

GIS/Land mapping services

Delivery type (format)

Web based platform

Drones services

DS supplier-user category

Business to business

Type of entity (ICT developer-supplier)

Multi-partners

Name of supplier/developer

Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs (MAFRA)

Primary Users

Farmers , Agribusiness / private company

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

1. Through the use of new information generated by the Farm Map and linked with diverse administrative information, the efficiency and accuracy of agricultural administration can be improved. 2. The Farm Map can be used to enhance not only agricultural administration, but also various processes of the agricultural value chain including production, marketing, consumption, and rural development.

Digital Solution Geographic scope

All over Korea

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

Other useful link

Other useful link

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