Hamyang 'Jirisan Mushroom Agricultural Cooperative' Gains Attention for Exporting King Oyster Mushrooms to Vietnam

First Export Shipment Worth USD 14,000 ... Leading the Way in New Market Development

Jinyong Choi, Executive Director of Daewon Solutec (from the left), Sunbeom Park, CEO, Jonghwan Bae, Chief of Yurim-myeon, Hamyang-gun, and Suyoung Lim, Industry Manager, are taking a commemorative photo in front of the container of king oyster mushrooms ready for shipment.

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters reporters Song Jong-gu and Choi Soon-kyung] Jirisan Mushroom Agricultural Cooperative, located in Yurim-myeon, Hamyang-gun, Gyeongnam, is attracting attention as an agricultural cooperative with a hot topic after exporting $14,000 worth of products to Vietnam for the first time.

On the 22nd, container shipments of king oyster mushrooms, mini king oyster mushrooms, and golden enoki mushrooms were made with the attendance of officials related to agricultural product exports from Hamyang-gun for shipment to the Vietnamese market.

This export is a pioneering project of Jirisan Mushroom Agricultural Cooperative, a specialized king oyster mushroom production company with the best domestic king oyster mushroom cultivation and quality control technology, through Daewon Solutec, a domestic agricultural food export company, and WR, a local buyer company.

According to officials, the products will be introduced to various local markets of COOP Mart, which operates in connection with the Ho Chi Minh City government in Vietnam.

‘Jirisan Mushroom Agricultural Cooperative’ is currently conducting continuous monthly exports not only to major domestic agricultural wholesale markets and large supermarkets but also to the United States, Australia, Japan, and Southeast Asia. Despite increasingly difficult conditions for exporting domestic agricultural products, the export outlook for next year is very bright, including Germany and Cambodia.

Active interest and support from related organizations such as Gyeongsangnam-do and Hamyang-gun are expected to be necessary in the future.

Park Soon-beom, CEO of Daewon Solutec, said, “This export will secure a quality competitiveness advantage and will be a good opportunity to expand not only to Hanoi but also to nearby Cambodia.”

Kim Oh-bok, chairman of Jirisan Mushroom Agricultural Cooperative, served as the president of the Korea Mushroom Export Association and was awarded the Industrial Medal on Export Day in 2018 for his contributions to the export of fresh agricultural products in Korea.

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