Farm Map
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)
DS Links to FAO, UN and other Development agencies projects, initiatives and programmes