Jinju City, 23rd Agricultural Products Export Tower Award Ceremony

65 Export Awardees Including Export Meritorious Persons, Organizations, and Individual Export Tower Recipients, the Highest Number Ever

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Choi Soon-kyung] Jinju City, Gyeongnam Province, held the 23rd Jinju Agricultural Products Export Tower Awards Ceremony on the 17th at the City Hall Citizen Hall.

The ceremony was attended by about 90 people, including Jinju Mayor Jo Gyu-il, City Council Chairman Lee Sang-young, heads of agricultural-related organizations, agricultural product export companies, and producing farmers.

The Export Tower Awards Ceremony presented awards to a total of 65 recipients, including commendations for export meritorious persons, group export towers for agricultural cooperatives, and individual export towers for farmers, marking the highest number of awardees in history.

On this day, five individuals who contributed to export policies received mayoral commendations first, and the group export towers were awarded to Yeongji Export Agricultural Cooperative for the $7 million export tower and Farmers Farm Export Agricultural Cooperative for the $1 million export tower.

For individual export towers, the $1 million export tower was awarded to Beoseot Maeul, the $700,000 export tower to Yeongji Export Agricultural Cooperative, the $600,000 and $500,000 export towers to Jungbu Nonghyup Export Agricultural Cooperative, the $400,000 export tower to Geumgok Nonghyup Export Agricultural Cooperative, the $300,000 export tower to Alchan Export Agricultural Cooperative, the $200,000 export tower to Farmers Farm Export Agricultural Cooperative, and the $100,000 export tower to Korea Pear Export Agricultural Cooperative, totaling 58 recipients.

Jinju Mayor Jo Gyu-il said, “The driving force behind the continued increase in agricultural product exports despite difficult domestic and international conditions is the will and effort of export farmers,” adding, “We will continuously review and support the export infrastructure to ensure stable exports of our agricultural products and will not spare interest and assistance.”

He continued, “In the second half of the year, to accelerate exports, we will closely discuss current issues with export agricultural cooperative officials and, in line with the phased transition to daily recovery, discover new export items through overseas special sales events to expand exports and do our best to further enhance the reputation of Jinju as the nation’s number one fresh agricultural product export city.”

Meanwhile, Jinju’s cumulative agricultural and food export amount as of the end of September was $42.34 million, an 18% increase compared to the same period last year, and it has reached 77% of this year’s export target of $55 million, setting a record high.

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