Jeonnam Agricultural Museum Hosts 'Sweet Potato Harvesting and Rice Cutting Experience Event'

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Yoon Jamin] The Jeonnam Agricultural Museum announced on the 14th that it will hold a 'Sweet Potato Digging and Rice Harvesting Experience Event' for five days starting from the 19th at the Agricultural Theme Park area.

This event was prepared to raise awareness of the importance of agriculture and to provide on-site learning experience opportunities to children and adolescents who lost chances for experiential learning due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The sweet potato digging event will be limited to a minimum number of participants to allow COVID-19 prevention measures, with 20 people accepted on a first-come, first-served basis each day.

The participation fee is 5,000 KRW per person, and applications can be made by phone until the 16th.

Participants can dig sweet potatoes themselves using hoes and other tools in a sweet potato field of over 500㎡ and take them home.

The Agricultural Museum has prepared tools such as sickles, hoes, bags, gloves, and quarantine supplies including hand sanitizers for the convenience of the experience.

Participants will wear masks and maintain a distance of more than 3 meters during the experience event.

Especially on the first day, the 19th, at the Agricultural Theme Park's rice life cycle experience site, participants will directly cut rice with sickles and then thresh it using traditional farming tools such as gaesang, holtae, and punggu at the threshing yard.

Director Lim Youngho said, "To slightly improve the overly restrained social atmosphere due to COVID-19, we decided to reduce the originally planned event scale to one-fifth and proceed with the event," adding, "We hope this will be an opportunity to feel the abundance of the autumn harvest and to promote the importance of traditional agricultural culture while strictly adhering to COVID-19 prevention rules such as social distancing."

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