Daedong pitches AI tractors and robots to NongHyup as it builds a precision contract-farming service for 2027

Daedong said in a press release on Sept 7 that it demonstrated AI farm machines, precision-farming tools and a management platform to about 40 farm-work contracting managers from local NongHyup cooperatives on Aug 28 at the Rural Development Administration's reclaimed-land research centre in Gimje, as a first step toward commercialising a precision farm-work contracting service.

The service combines AI machinery, a platform that handles farmers' requests, field data, crew and machine scheduling and progress, and precision tools such as soil analysis and variable-rate fertilising; the demonstration also showed autonomous AI tractor work, drone crop analysis and spraying and a transport robot.

Daedong cited NongHyup figures showing cooperatives running contract-farming operations rose from 222 in 2024 to 290 in 2025, about 31%, and upland contract area from 161,000 ha to 191,000 ha, about 19%.

The service is one of the business models of the national agricultural AX platform project, a KRW 254.6 billion programme in which Daedong leads the consortium, and the company plans to build an operating model centred on South Jeolla and commercialise it next year.

For MEKAWIRE readers the shift is from selling machines to selling robot-performed work: it is Daedong's second government-backed AX programme on our pages after the KRW 43.1 billion on-device AI chip project for unmanned farm robots it leads.