Haenam-gun Installs Eco-Friendly Rice Paddy Experience Field at Seoul Elementary Schools

The Haenam Rice I Eat: "Let's Grow It With My Own Hands"

Haenam County has established eco-friendly rice paddy experience fields at nine elementary schools in Seoul. (Photo by Haenam County)

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Kim Hyun] Haenam County, Jeollanam-do (Governor Myeong Hyun-gwan) announced on the 10th that it has installed an eco-friendly rice paddy experience field at an elementary school in Seoul.

The experience fields were installed at nine schools, including Sungmi Elementary School in Seoul, which receives Haenam rice for student meals, allowing children to observe the growth of eco-friendly rice and experience the rice production process.

The county has been installing rice paddy experience fields annually at schools receiving meal supplies to help urban children, who rarely have opportunities to engage in farming, understand agriculture and rural areas, and to promote eco-friendly meal rice, receiving positive responses.

The experience fields, planted with rice in large rubber pots, include snails to prevent weeds and pests, and are continuously managed using eco-friendly farming methods. Around the harvest season in October, students can directly cut the rice and experience the milling process.

This year, due to the spread of COVID-19, students will not participate in the rice planting process but will only experience growth and harvesting.

Haenam County supplies about 2,000 tons annually of eco-friendly rice for school meals nationwide, including Seoul and Gwangju, through local agricultural cooperatives such as Insuyeong Agricultural Cooperative and Ttangkkeut Hwangto Eco-friendly Agricultural Corporation.

The county plans to continue exchanges such as ongoing rural experience activities to promote the excellence of Haenam rice in urban areas and expand school meal supply.

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