Geuinmo, Geochang County Governor, Holds Meeting with Hanwoo Association Executives

Listening to Challenges of Hanwoo Farmers and Discussing Strategies for Premium Branding

Gu In-mo, Geochang County Governor, is holding a meeting with executives of the Korean Beef Association.

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Choi Soon-kyung] Geochang-gun, Gyeongnam announced on the 18th that a meeting was held in the county office situation room with County Governor Goo In-mo, Son Jeong-woon, head of the Geochang branch of the National Hanwoo Association, and other executives to discuss the development of the Geochang Hanwoo industry and the resolution of difficulties faced by livestock farmers.

Governor Goo said, “I would like to express my gratitude to the members of the Hanwoo Association who actively cooperated with the county administration to successfully conclude the three major pending issues of our county: the detention center conflict, the transfer of trademark rights for the International Theater Festival, and the relocation of support and branch offices. Please speak honestly about the difficulties you are experiencing on site.”

Son Jeong-woon, the branch head, proposed simplifying the barn permit procedures based on members’ opinions, installing regional livestock manure joint processing facilities, implementing a rice straw return project, and expanding support for self TMR feed mixers.

Governor Goo said, “We will form a TF team in the relevant departments to standardize work processes to simplify barn permit procedures,” and added, “The construction of regional joint manure storage facilities will be supported annually through public projects.”

The rice straw return project is a measure to restore the soil, but considering the position of livestock farmers, it is being converted to integrated crop-livestock circular agriculture, with 200 hectares being promoted as a pilot project this year.

Additionally, it was decided to discuss support measures for TMR self-feed mixers for farms raising livestock above a certain scale.

The executives who attended the meeting said, “It was a valuable time to discuss various issues, and the Hanwoo Association will do its best for the development of the Geochang Hanwoo industry.”

Governor Goo said, “I empathize with the difficulties of Hanwoo farmers and will strive to collect diverse opinions from the field so that Geochang Hanwoo can grow into a nationwide brand.”

Meanwhile, Geochang-gun is leading advanced livestock farming by showing a high grade appearance rate (1++ or higher, ranked first nationwide) through various projects such as Hanwoo improvement support, and ranking second nationwide in selecting breeding bulls.

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