Namwon-si Selected for Next Year's Agricultural Product Commercialization Infrastructure Project Competition

[Namwon=Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Jeong Young-gwon] Namwon City, Jeonbuk Province, has been selected for the ‘2022 Agricultural Products Commercialization Infrastructure Establishment Project,’ a public contest project by Jeonbuk Province.

According to the city on the 25th, the ‘Agricultural Products Commercialization Infrastructure Establishment Project’ is being promoted to supplement the functions of the Agricultural Products Processing Center (APC) and to establish small-scale commercialization facilities and expand joint sorting and shipment.

The city applied for the project last month to install an apple and jujube sorting machine at the Chunhyanggol Nonghyup APC to improve the commercial value of apples and jujubes and enhance market bargaining power. Through the final evaluation earlier this month, the total project cost of 270 million KRW (200 million KRW from the province, 40 million KRW from the city, and 80 million KRW self-funded) was finally confirmed as a public contest project.

The Chunhyanggol Nonghyup APC handles agricultural products from the plains areas of Geumji-myeon, Jusaeng-myeon, Songdong-myeon, Daegang-myeon, and Suji-myeon in Namwon.

Starting this year, the city plans to foster joint sorting farms for apples and jujubes and will actively work on commercialization through joint sorting from next year.

In this area, apples and jujubes are cultivated by 25 farms over an area of 5.3 hectares. Although full-scale production began last year, there have been many difficulties in joint sorting due to the lack of a sorting machine.

With the installation of the apple and jujube sorting machine scheduled for the first half of next year, it is expected that the current annual production volume of 40 tons will be jointly sorted and shipped starting in September.

A city official said, “By standardizing and grading the high-quality agricultural products produced in the city through the joint sorting process at the Agricultural Products Processing Center, the commercial value will be enhanced. This will greatly improve the bargaining power through volume scaling of local agricultural products, easing farmers’ logistics costs, reducing labor costs, and simultaneously ensuring the safety of agricultural products.”

Namwon=Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Jeong Young-gwon wjddudrnjs@asiae.co.kr

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