Jinju City Agricultural Products Export Tower Award Ceremony Held ... Sugok Nonghyup Receives 9 Million Dollar Tower Award

60 Recipients Including Groups, Individuals, and Meritorious Persons Awarded

Group photo of the Agricultural Products Export Tower Award Ceremony in Jinju-si, Gyeongnam.

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Choi Soon-kyung] Jinju City, Gyeongnam Province, the nation's top fresh agricultural product export city, held the '24th Jinju City Agricultural Products Export Tower Awards Ceremony' on the 6th at the outdoor performance hall of Jinju Sports Complex.

About 100 people attended the ceremony, including Mayor Cho Gyu-il, members of the National Assembly, provincial and city council members, heads of agricultural-related organizations, and export farmers.

The Jinju City Agricultural Products Export Tower Awards are divided into three categories: group export towers, individual export towers, and meritorious persons. This year's recipients include 3 groups for the group export tower, 4 individuals for the $500,000 export tower, 3 for $400,000, 6 for $300,000, 20 for $200,000, 22 for $100,000, and 2 meritorious persons, totaling 60 people. The highest award, the $9 million export tower, was awarded to Sugok Nonghyup.

Mayor Cho said, "The driving force behind the continued increase in agricultural product exports despite the difficult domestic and international conditions due to COVID-19 is the tireless efforts of export farmers," adding, "If we continue to join forces with Jinju City, not only will we achieve our export goals, but Jinju's agricultural products will also captivate the taste buds of people worldwide."

This year, Jinju City supported 1.218 billion KRW for 14 projects, including the modernization of facilities for export base construction as a plan to expand agricultural product exports, and increased the budget for overseas new market development and export promotion projects by 200 million KRW.

In particular, when strawberry exports faced difficulties earlier this year, an emergency budget of over 300 million KRW was allocated to support COVID-19 overcoming export promotion incentives.

Jinju City plans to actively continue overseas market development activities by participating in the Vietnam Ho Chi Minh International Food Expo in November and the agricultural products special sales exhibition in December.

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