Jindo-gun Agricultural Products Processing Support Center Stands Tall as a Cradle for Startups

Serving as an Advanced Base for Farmers' Processing and Startups... Producing 48 Products Including Gugija, Annual Sales of About 2 Billion KRW

Providing Product Development Consulting, Standardization, Processing Prototype Development, Commerciali

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[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Seo Young-seo] The Jindo-gun Agricultural Products Processing Support Center, which processes and sells agricultural products produced in Jindo-gun, Jeollanam-do, is playing a key role as an advanced base for agricultural entrepreneurs' processing startups.

According to the county on the 29th, farmers can use the center by only bearing the costs of packaging and auxiliary materials for manufacturing and processing. They produce a total of 48 products such as teabag tea, extracts, and beverages using Jindowolgeum (Jindo turmeric), gogija (goji berries), and daepa (green onions), generating annual sales of about 2 billion KRW.

The processed products are sold at NH Local Food stores and the Jindo Premium Specialty Products Store, and efforts are underway to supply products to places such as the Sol Beach Jindo sales outlet.

In particular, they have newly developed sales channels by supplying 40 tons annually of beet powder and concentrate, cultivated organically, to health functional food manufacturers since last April.

As the number of farms wishing to start small-scale processing businesses has increased, the county has supported farmers to process and commercialize agricultural products they produce through the opening of the Jindo Agricultural Products Processing Support Center in September 2017.

Located in Posan-ri, Jindo-eup for accessibility, the center has developed various processed foods from directly produced agricultural products by providing technical support to small-scale farms that had not challenged the processing field due to lack of facilities and technology.

As of September, about 40 types of equipment capable of producing dried and powdered products are installed, and by investing 1 billion KRW this year to install processing and packaging facilities and promote HACCP (Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points) certification, the plan is to produce high-quality processed agricultural products and create new income sources for farms.

So far, the county has conducted specialized processing education using local agricultural products through the Agricultural Products Processing Support Center, producing prototypes, providing processing facility operation manuals, product development consulting, and standardization to commercialize processed products.

A representative from the Jindo-gun Agricultural Support Division said, “We expect to increase farmers' income by producing high-quality processed agricultural products through research and development using excellent local agricultural products and securing various sales channels to promote consumption.”

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