For 2022, 15 Seed Money Projects have been awarded in the joint call of the Top Sector Agri & Food and the Top Sector Horticulture & Starting Materials. One of the projects receiving funding is the establishment of a demonstration center for greenhouse horticulture in South Korea.
The project planning started in 2020. Southwest of Seoul, the city of Seosan is to have, among other things, a 5-hectare greenhouse. New techniques must be demonstrated in this production greenhouse. Besides several Dutch companies, Hyundai Motor Group is also involved.
The Seosan reclaimed land is located southwest of Seoul and is the only reclaimed land developed by the private sector in South Korea. In 1970s, President Park asked the Hyundai Motor Group to reclaim the land for food security. Parts of the land have been given other functions, but more recently, the Hyundai group was asked to develop around 100 ha of land as a hi-tech agricultural cluster. NorthernLight BV was subsequently requested to make the master plan for ‘Little Netherlands’.
The land was designed with greenhouses, agro-tourism, circular agriculture, and care farm. The planning of the project started in 2020 and will be completed by 2022 or 2023 at the latest.
Dutch companies have been involved in the development of an agro-tourism zone and a 5 ha state-of-the-art production greenhouse. A part of the agricultural cluster will be a demonstration greenhouse where innovative technologies will be demonstrated to visitors, including growers and other sector stakeholders. It is one of the key attractions of ‘Little Netherlands’.
Innovations can for example be in the fields of fossil-free production, sensor technology, application of big data and artificial intelligence to generate crop and climate management advice (‘automated greenhouse control’), robotization, and biological crop protection.
These technologies are in various stages of R&D or application in The Netherlands and are equally applicable to other places. The Dutch supply industry is strongly involved in the commercial adaptation and implementation of such technologies. The R&D opportunity lies in the further development, validation, and application of new technologies under different conditions in terms of climate, economic setting and technological level of the sector. The trade opportunity lies in the unique platform that the demonstration farm provides for Dutch supply industry towards the South Korean horticultural sector.
All fifteen projects can be viewed here.
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