Yeonggwang's 'House Where Four Seasons Live' Selected as One of Jeonnam's Top 10 Brand Rice

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Jeon Seong] Yeonggwang-gun, Jeollanam-do (Governor Kim Jun-seong) announced on the 21st that the region's representative rice, ‘Sakyeoljuli Saneun Jip,’ has been selected as one of Jeollanam-do's top 10 high-quality brand rices.

Jeollanam-do purchased samples twice from retail stores and commissioned five specialized analysis institutions, including the Korea Food Research Institute, the National Agricultural Products Quality Management Service, the Agricultural Technology Center, and the Health and Environment Research Institute.

They also conducted evaluations on taste, variety mixture rate, appearance quality, heavy metal contamination, pesticide residue tests, as well as document and field assessments to select the top 10 brand rices.

As a result of the evaluation, among the candidates for Jeollanam-do's top 10 brand rices, ‘Sakyeoljuli Saneun Jip’ achieved excellent results in taste and single variety increase rate.

Jeollanam-do plans to hold the ‘Jeollanam-do Top 10 High-Quality Brand Rice Awards Ceremony’ in July.

The selected brand rices will receive prize money and various incentives, including the right to label their products as ‘Jeollanam-do Top 10 High-Quality Brand Rice.’

A county official stated, “As a result of continuously promoting modernization of facilities such as specialized milling and storage facilities to foster high-quality rice brands, we have achieved Jeollanam-do's first rice sales of 50.5 billion won, yielding good results. We will continue to develop Yeonggwang rice as a premium rice of Korea and enhance the brand rice image through nationwide sales expansion.”

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