Gyeongbuk Province Opens 'Baro Market Gyeongsangbuk-do Branch' at Daegu Buk-gu Agricultural Resources Management Center

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Park Dong-wook] Gyeongsangbuk-do officially opened the agricultural products direct transaction market "Baro Market Gyeongsangbuk-do Branch" on the 27th for urban consumers and farmers. It will operate twice a week on Saturdays and Sundays until December 6.

Located inside the Gyeongbuk Agricultural Resources Management Institute in Hakjeong-dong, Buk-gu, Daegu, the "Baro Market Gyeongsangbuk-do Branch" is in a densely populated area with 200,000 residents within a 3 km radius. It is an area with excellent consumer accessibility due to convenient public transportation such as the subway and buses.

At this direct transaction market, 58 farms from 23 cities and counties in the province directly produce and process over 180 varieties of diverse agricultural products, which can be purchased through Baro Market direct transactions at prices more than 10% cheaper than market prices.

Various consumer attraction events will be continuously held, including a customer point system where 10% of the purchase amount is accumulated, special discount events with prices more than 30% cheaper than market prices, family-oriented experience events (hand sanitizer, sangria, agricultural product harvesting experience, etc.), flea markets, and on-site prize events.

Lee Cheol-woo, Governor of Gyeongsangbuk-do, said, "With the opening of the 'Baro Market Gyeongsangbuk-do Branch,' we hope it will help increase farmers' income and stabilize household prices for urban residents by selling agricultural products carefully produced by farmers to urban consumers at affordable prices." He added, "Gyeongsangbuk-do plans to continuously promote various agricultural product market expansion and consumption promotion campaigns starting with this event."

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