Certified Social Enterprise Better Together (CEO Heo Su-jin) announced on the 7th that it signed a business agreement (MOU) on the consignment production of hydroponic plants for home use with Cheongju Somang House, a co-residential facility for the disabled, on the 25th of last month.
Better Together is currently a company located in the Pangyo Startup Zone, established by the Ministry of SMEs and Startups and operated by the Startup Promotion Agency and the Gyeonggi Creative Economy Innovation Center. We provide data-based infant child care service ‘Aljam’ and home plant cultivation platform ‘Farm Farm Market’.
Somang House is a co-residential facility for the disabled operated by the social welfare corporation Midong. Better Together builds a hydroponic cultivation facility at Somang House and invests in labor costs to supply plants to homes where disabled residents living in Somang House want to grow plants hydroponically. announced that they plan to build.
Director Seo Gwang-seok of Somang House said, “This project will be a great help to the self-sufficiency of our disabled people in a situation where occasional side jobs have been cut off due to COVID-19.”
Recently, as the ‘stay-at-home’ lifestyle has been prolonged due to COVID-19, ‘companion plants’ and ‘planteriors’ have been attracting attention as a trend. Recently, from large corporations to startups, new concept plant home appliances have been launched that allow you to easily grow various plants at home. I’m doing it.
Following this trend, Better Together provides reliable information to novice users through FarmFarm Market, an application that provides information related to home hydroponics. They also announced that they are preparing a service to supply young plants for growing companion plants.
A Better Together official said, “To secure stable demand, we are preparing subscription economy products, including Farm Farm Easy, a home hydroponic cultivation device, and we hope that there will ultimately be a synergy effect between the creation of jobs for the disabled and the hydroponic cultivation business.” He added, “The business is stable.” “If it goes ahead, we want to create more jobs for people with disabilities,” he said.
Source: Pangyo Techno Valley Official Newsroom
→ Go to ‘Asia Innovation Hub Pangyo Techno Valley 2021’ n