Key Research Highlights
- 1. Development and Cultivation of Alfalfa for Feed Cost Reduction in Response to Forage Import Liberalization
- 2. Development of Antioxidant Probiotics and Dairy Products for Alzheimer's Prevention
- 3. Development of Hot Air Drying Hay Production System for Stable Hay Production in Response to Forage Import Liberalization
- 4. Development and Distribution of Dry Aging Technology for Taste and Flavor Enhancement of Hanwoo Beef
- 5. Development of Asia's First ICT-Integrated Milking Robot for Precision Dairy Farming
- 6. Improvement and Commercialization of Artificial Insemination Technology for Goats to Enhance Breeding Efficiency
- 7. Development of Integrated Safety Management Technology for Preemptive Prevention of Hazards in Livestock Products
- 8. Discovery of new anti-methanogenic compounds in silico screening to achieve carbon neutrality
- 9. Fostering a Dedicated Market for Nanchukmacdon to Promote its Industrialization
- 10. Establishment of a Private-Led Distribution System for WooriHeukDon(Black Pig) to Promote Industrialization
Development and Cultivation of Alfalfa for Feed Cost Reduction in Response to Forage Import Liberalization
- Develpoment of domestically adapted alfalfa varieties (Alfaone, Alfaking)
- Productivity enhancement through soil and cultivation condition improvements
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Development of new alfalfa varieties
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Evaluation of alfalfa productivity
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Alfalfa hot-air hay production
Development of Antioxidant Probiotics and Dairy Products for Alzheimer's Prevention
- Developing fermented milk and cottage cheese using probiotics beneficial for preventing Alzheimer's disease
- Efficacy verified by feeding probiotics and dairy products to Alzheimer's model animals
- Behavioral experiment (Y-maze) results showed a 18.6% improvement in short-term memory compared to control group
- Reduction in brain tissue beta-amyloid plaque deposition: 41.7% decrease compared to control group(Lactic acid bacteria), 31.9%(fermented milk), 36.2%(cottage cheese)
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Genome of selected probiotics (Casei)
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Improvement in behavioral experiment results of model animals
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Decrease in beta-amyloid plaques in brain tissue of model animals
Development of Hot Air Drying Hay Production System for Stable Hay Production in Response to Forage Import Liberalization
- Development of a hot air hay drying system to Establish a stable foundation for hay production
- Field demonstration and pilot project implementation of the hot air hay drying system
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Schematic diagram of hot air drying hay production system
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Installation site of hot air drying hay production system(Iksan)
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Round and square bale hot air dried hay
Development and Distribution of Dry Aging Technology for Taste and Flavor Enhancement of Hanwoo Beef
- Establishment of optimal dry aging condition
- Analysis of meat quality, aroma and volatile flavor compounds at each stage of dry aging
- Improvement of flavor and taste, reduction of production time and loss
- Distribution of technology to enhance the value of low-grade or low-fat cuts
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Dry-aged beef
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Sensory evaluation
Development of Asia's First ICT-Integrated Milking Robot for Precision Dairy Farming
- Reduction in labor for milking cows and cost reduction in milking robot purchase
- Saving labor for dairy farmers and realizing animal welfare through voluntary milking by cows
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Developed milking robot
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Application of domestic industrial robot arms
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Teat recognition using AI+3D cameras
Improvement and Commercialization of Artificial Insemination Technology for Goats to Enhance Breeding Efficiency
- Establishment of early pregnancy diagnosis technology for goats, and production and freezing conditions for frozen semen
- Early pregnancy diagnosis using transrectal ultrasound and blood test kits (reduction of 20 days)
- Establishing a national systematic improvement in goat breeding efficiency
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Semen collection from elite goat breeds
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Artificial insemination in goats
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Pregnancy ultrasound diagnosis
Development of Integrated Safety Management Technology for Preemptive Prevention of Hazards in Livestock Products
- Development of a device for one-step detection and diagnosis of food poisoning bacteria
- Development of a paper sensor for on-site diagnosis of veterinary drugs and a reader for quantitative analysis
- Development of environmentally friendly microbial control technology applicable to livestock products and production stages
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Food poisoning bacteria diagnostic technology (prototype)
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Residue detection technology (prototype)
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On-site diagnosis of hazardous elements
Discovery of new anti-methanogenic compounds in silico screening to achieve carbon neutrality
- Securing synthetic materials related to anti-methanogenic compounds (6 out of 10 types)
- Building genomic information modeling on methyl-CoM reductase (25 species) of ruminal archaea
- Database construction by reprocessing the cheminformatics of 3,5000 chemicals in the pubic PubChem database
- Discovery of methane reduction candidates within the constructed chemical database through methyl-CoM structure-based screening from ruminant archaea
- Efficacy evaluation of 6 candidates in rumen fluid for methane reduction (in vitro) : twice of repeated validation tests (3 candidates of reducing methane emissions by more than 28%)
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Methanogenic pathway
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Exploration of anti-methanogenic compounds
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Protein Structure of methyl-coM reductase
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Pharmacophore- based docking study
Fostering a Dedicated Market for Nanchukmacdon to Promote its Industrialization
- Development of black pork breeds suitable for grilling all parts, catering to the preferences of Korean consumers
- Maintaining marketability and improving quality uniformity through the establishment of a cooperative system for farmers-distribution-consumption restaurants
- Development and commercialization of the world's first technology for early diagnosis of pork quality
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Nanchukmacdon
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Nanchukmacdon loin
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Conventional pork loin
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Meat quality diagnosis method
Establishment of a Private-Led Distribution System for WooriHeukDon(Black Pig) to Promote Industrialization
- Development of black pig breeds that complement the advantages (taste) and disadvantages (growth) of native pigs
- Enhancing farm income and creating regional black pig brands
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WooriHeukDon
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WooriHeukDon belly
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WooriHeukDon loin