Jeonnam Eco-Friendly Premium Hanwoo Beef Resumes Export to Hong Kong

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Yoon Jamin] Jeonnam Province announced on the 21st that the Nonghyup Economic Holdings Naju Livestock Products Market has been re-registered as Jeonnam’s first specialized Hanwoo beef export slaughterhouse by the Hong Kong government, reopening the export route for Jeonnam’s eco-friendly premium Hanwoo beef to Hong Kong.

With the full-scale resumption of the Hanwoo beef export slaughterhouse, Jeonnam Province signed a contract with a local company to export 200kg of 1++ sirloin from 25 head of Hanwoo, slaughtered first by the Green Hanwoo Cooperative Joint Business Corporation (CEO Jang Chunhwan), the province’s wide-area premium Hanwoo brand, to Hong Kong in December.

The Nonghyup Naju Livestock Products Market operated a slaughterhouse in Ungok-dong, Naju City for 29 years since December 1991. In November 2020, it relocated to the Naju Innovation Industrial Complex, rebuilding the outdated facilities into state-of-the-art ones, and has now been re-registered by Hong Kong. The daily slaughter capacity is 150 cattle and 1,200 pigs, with processing capacity for 100 cattle and 800 pigs.

The Nonghyup Naju Livestock Products Market was registered as a slaughterhouse by Hong Kong in April 2016, but the registration was canceled due to the relocation and reconstruction. Since then, it has steadily worked to regain approval, which took about a year due to local circumstances in Hong Kong such as COVID-19, and was finally registered again on the 7th.

Park Dohwan, Director of Livestock Policy Division at Jeonnam Province, said, “To prepare for the domestic price decline and inventory increase caused by the rise in Hanwoo breeding, we need to expand exports. We will actively strive to expand export destinations not only to Hong Kong but also to Southeast Asia and other regions to enter broader overseas markets.”

Jeonnam Province held the Jeonnam Hanwoo Beef Export Council on the 15th to promote stable development of the Hanwoo industry and strengthen export competitiveness. They discussed concrete plans to expand Hanwoo beef exports, including establishing an organic cooperation system and role sharing among related organizations, inviting Hong Kong buyers, and securing additional export processing plants.

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