Journal of Agricultural Machinery Engineering ISSN:2799-8673(Print) 2799-8819(Online) 농업기계공학

Agriculture is suffering from labour shortages and a projected shortfall in the amount of food available for the world's population in 2050. These issues have pushed agricultural engineering to advance, and smart agriculture is one of the potential future agriculture that can provide high productivity with minimum labour. Countries around the world are actively developing smart agricultural technologies, and some countries have demonstrated applications with practical performance in various fields such as horticulture, livestock and field machinery. In South Korea, the government is also pursuing the development of agricultural engineering technology related to smart farming in order to be competitive in the global market. A lot of research is being conducted on agricultural engineering related to smart farming, and efficient R&D is possible by using various cases from overseas. Therefore, this study was conducted to provide the strategy of agricultural engineering technology development in the Republic of Korea and the trend analysis of the latest agricultural engineering technologies in major agricultural countries around the world.