Yeosu City Develops Three-Crop Corn Cultivation Technology... "Creating Yeosu City's Unique Variety"

Early Harvest, Cold Damage Prevention, Stable Procurement of Processing Raw Materials
Enhancing Consumer Awareness and Product Premiumization through New Variety Distribution

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters, Reporter Heo Seon-sik] Yeosu City (Mayor Kwon Oh-bong) announced on the 9th that it has embarked on the development of a three-crop cultivation technology for corn as part of the ‘Yeosu Corn Rural Convergence Industry (Local Industry Promotion)’ to establish a southern regional hub in South Korea.

According to the city, this development of the three-crop corn cultivation technology in Seomseom Yeosu is being promoted to introduce Yeosu’s own variety in order to differentiate and upgrade the product compared to other regions such as Gangwon Province.

To secure market dominance, the shipment period is being advanced from mid-June to late May, and test cultivation is being conducted to ensure safe production even under frost and low-temperature cold damage. The plan is to increase added value by securing stable processing raw materials.

For successful development of cultivation technology, the city established a promotion plan in January, selected a total of four farms?two in Hwayang-myeon and two in Dolsan-eup?as participants, and will support them with a project budget of 20 million KRW.

The first sowing was also completed on the 2nd.

At the test cultivation farms, manual-based three-crop demonstration cultivation is being attempted with three harvests in spring, summer, and fall through corn sowing and seedling raising, compost and fertilizer application, ridge making, transplanting, plastic mulch + tunnel cultivation (open field) or greenhouse cultivation, and timely harvesting.

In particular, the city plans to nurture a specialized variety unique to Yeosu by distributing new corn varieties and conducting comparative analyses of maturity, sugar content, and processing suitability with existing cultivation varieties.

A city official said, “We will do our best to enhance competitiveness against corn from other regions through the development of three-crop cultivation technology and the distribution of new varieties, and to contribute to added value and increased farm income.”

Meanwhile, Yeosu City’s ‘Yeosu Corn’ was selected in last year’s local industry promotion project contest hosted by Jeonnam Province, and this year, with a total project budget of 2 billion KRW including 1.1 billion KRW from the provincial government, it will actively promote local industry development.

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