Gyeongsang National University (President Kwon Soon-ki) Smart Farm Research Center was selected as the final in the Smart Farm field of Big Data Platform and

Center Construction Project organized by the Ministry of Science and ICT and dedicated to the Korea Intelligence and Social Promotion Agency.

The Smart Farm Research Center at Gyeongsang National University formed a data platform and center consortium with Sejong University,

including 13 private companies including Naver Cloud Co., Ltd., five public institutions and organizations including the Korea Institute of Industrial Technology Testing, Jeju Special Self-Governing Province Office, and Korea Knowledge Service Research Institute.

The Gyeongsang National University Smart Farm Research Center will build

a Naver cloud-based Smart Farm Big Data platform for digital agricultural data sharing and artificial intelligence-based service development and activation with the support of 16.18 billion won from the government over the next three years.

In addition, it plans to provide on-line and off-line space that enables user-friendly data analysis and learning so that farmers, public institutions and related companies can utilize the big data secured by the platform.