Muan-gun Supports Healthy Eco-Friendly 'Ingredients' for Students

KRW 5.2 Billion Scale, Supporting 12,833 Local Students with Free Meals and More

Muan County supports students with eco-friendly school meal ingredients. (Photo by Muan County)

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters, Reporter Oh Hwan-joo] Muan County, Jeonnam (Governor Kim San) announced on the 20th that it will carry out a school meal ingredient support project to provide healthy food to students and help eco-friendly farms develop sales channels.

Last month, the county held a review meeting for eco-friendly agricultural products and Non-GMO ingredients for school meals and free meal support, confirming a budget of 5.2 billion KRW for school meal ingredient-related projects.

This year, the project will support 11,283 students at 113 schools and childcare facilities in the area with 1.641 billion KRW for eco-friendly agricultural product ingredients for school meals, 232 million KRW for Non-GMO ingredients for school meals, 40 million KRW for fruit snacks in elementary after-school care classrooms, and 3.28 billion KRW for free meals in elementary and middle schools.

In particular, the eco-friendly ingredient support project supplies eco-friendly ingredients to school meals through five suppliers, aiming to promote healthy physical development of growing students and help eco-friendly practicing farms secure stable sales channels.

In this regard, Muan County plans to conduct more than 70 safety inspections on eco-friendly agricultural products delivered by suppliers to schools to preemptively block unsuitable agricultural products.

Governor Kim San said, “Through this project, we expect to provide safe food to students and help eco-friendly farms develop stable sales channels and increase income,” adding, “We will continue to foster competitive eco-friendly farms through various support projects.”

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