Jangseong-gun Opens Military Meal Local Food Support Center

[Jangseong=Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Jo Hangyu] Jangseong-gun, Jeonnam Province (Governor Yoo Doo-seok) announced on the 28th that it held a plaque ceremony at the ‘Gun School Meal Local Food Support Center’ and officially began its operation.

The event was held with a minimum number of attendees, including Governor Yoo Doo-seok and officials from Samseo Nonghyup, in compliance with COVID-19 quarantine rules.

The ‘Gun School Meal Local Food Support Center’ covers a total area of 1,159㎡, consisting of a food ingredient preprocessing facility (838㎡) and a cold storage room (321㎡), with a total project cost of 1.35 billion KRW including county funds.

It mainly preprocesses food ingredients produced by local farms or produces semi-processed products such as peeled onions and salted napa cabbage. Preprocessing refers to a series of processes that treat food ingredients into forms that are easier to process, such as washing and peeling.

The establishment of the center began in 2019 when Samseo Nonghyup was the only organization in Jeonnam selected for the ‘2020 Food Materials and Semi-Processed Industry Promotion Contest’ hosted by the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs.

With the opening of the Gun School Meal Local Food Support Center, Samseo Nonghyup can now directly carry out the food ingredient preprocessing that was previously outsourced to external companies, which is evaluated positively as it reduces costs lost outside the region and enables the supply of fresher and safer food ingredients.

The county expects that improving the agricultural product supply system through the operation of the Gun School Meal Local Food Support Center will lead to the successful implementation of the ‘Food Plan,’ which establishes a local food consumption system.

In addition, together with the Jangseong Food Project Group, they plan to continuously link farm organization and local food supply for school meals, aiming to expand the proportion of local agricultural product supply to 70%.

Governor Yoo Doo-seok said, “We plan to increase the supply of agricultural products grown in a clean environment to Sangmu Base centered on the Gun School Meal Local Food Support Center,” adding, “We will take a step closer to building a ‘wealthy rural community’ by securing stable income for local farmers.”

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