Gwangyang City Conducts 'Basic Course for Agrifood Processing Startups' Training

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Lee Hyung-kwon] Gwangyang City, Jeollanam-do announced on the 20th that it will conduct the ‘Basic Course for Agricultural Food Processing Startups’ education for 48 people, including prospective agricultural product processing entrepreneurs and farmers, at the Gwangyang Agricultural Education Center starting from the 22nd.

The ‘Agricultural Food Processing’ startup education was originally scheduled to proceed in stages with a basic course in February, followed by advanced and startup courses, but the opening was postponed due to social distancing measures amid the spread of COVID-19, and will now begin on the 22nd.

The education will be held eight times every Friday until July 10, covering topics such as agricultural food processing startup strategies using local agricultural products, agricultural food consumption trends, basics of food processing, and basics of the Food Sanitation Act.

This year, to contribute to processing startup linkage and promotion of agricultural product consumption and to allow more citizens to take an interest in agricultural food processing, the target audience for the education has been expanded from farmers to all citizens of Gwangyang City.

Starting in September, a startup course will be operated for those who have completed the advanced agricultural food processing startup education and members of the ‘Gwangyang Farmers Agricultural Cooperative Corporation,’ which operates the Agricultural Product Processing Center, to commercialize Gwangyang’s agricultural products.

Kang Geum-ho, Director of Agricultural Product Marketing Division, said, “Through this education, we will do our best to nurture competitive and safe local agricultural product processing experts and increase farmers’ income.”

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