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Sericulture industry

Target

Transitioning from labor-intensive and outdated traditional sericulture methods to automated smart farm sericulture utilizing vertical farms, increasing profits by developing functional, high-value-added products and pioneering new markets through multi-year silkworm rearing.

01. Year-round silkworm rearing linked to smart farms

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    Environmental control system

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    Silkworm breeding room

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    Cocoons

Business details
  • Realizing multi-year silkworm rearing through automated smart farms, rather than the traditional two-year silkworm rearing (spring and fall)
  • Establishment of optimized silkworm rearing conditions and data through the establishment of an ICT environmental control system in a sericulture room.
  • Labor savings and production of high-quality silkworm products through automated silkworm breeding equipment, including automatic mulberry leaf feeders.
  • Establishment of a smart production and breeding system and development of new products through business agreements with sericulture-related industries.
Promotion status
  • Completion of R&D project based on silkworm breeding data and establishment of breeding room for data
  • Conducting a silkworm rearing test using an ICT environmental control system to identify optimized silkworm rearing conditions.
  • Completed silkworm rearing, cocoon production, and silkworm egg production
  • Promoting the introduction of automated facilities through the 6th Industrial Support Project.
  • Three patents pending for fully automated silkworm breeding facilities.
  • First pilot facility for fully automated silkworm breeding system under construction.

02. Cultivation of house seedlings in close planting

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    Seedling cultivation

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    1st harvest

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    Cultivation after the third harvest

Business details
  • By implementing a new method of dense cultivation of greenhouse seedlings that does not exist domestically or internationally for the first time, we confirmed the possibility of harvesting mulberry leaves multiple times throughout the year, instead of the existing two-time production (spring and fall)
  • Year-round silkworm rearing and development of mulberry leaf products through multiple mulberry leaf harvests
  • Development of new silkworm products through investigation of the nutritional components of mulberry leaves grown in dense greenhouse seedling cultivation.
Promotion status
  • The results of the experimental silkworm breeding using mulberry leaves and seedlings grown in a greenhouse have broken existing stereotypes and confirmed the possibility of silkworm breeding, cocoon production, and silkworm egg production.
  • A study on the nutritional composition of new mulberry leaves from seedlings grown in a greenhouse confirmed that they contained superior components (such as beta-carotene) compared to existing mulberry leaves.
  • We are currently conducting joint research and signing business agreements with sericulture research institutes such as the National Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Chungbuk Agricultural Products Business Office, and Gyeongbuk Silkworm Insect Business Office.

03. Smart Farm Cultivation of Real Seedlings

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    Germination on rockwool medium

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    Transplant cultivation

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    Hydroponics

Business details
  • Mulberry house cultivation requires a large number of seedlings. Hydroponic cultivation of seedlings can shorten the period and reduce production costs, thereby securing competitiveness.
  • Recently, due to the weather, rising labor costs, and workers' reluctance to work in poor conditions, there has been a decrease in seedling production and a demand for new seedling production methods due to price increases.
  • Year-round mulberry leaf production through smart farm cultivation of seedlings enables the development of new products.
Promotion status
  • In the smart farm facility in the farm, seeds are sown on rock wool at intervals of 1 to 2 weeks and cultivated for approximately 40 days.
  • Seedling sprouts that have grown to about 15 to 25 cm are sold for testing and research purposes at sericulture research institutes.