Imsil-gun Opens 'Food Integrated Support Center'... Selling Eco-friendly Agricultural Products

The ‘Imsil-gun Integrated Food Support Center,’ which sells safe and healthy eco-friendly agricultural products produced in Imsil-gun, Jeonbuk, has opened its doors.

On the 13th, the county announced that it held the opening ceremony of the Imsil-gun Integrated Food Support Center with about 100 attendees, including County Governor Shim Min, County Council Chairman Lee Seong-jae, county council members, Provincial Assemblyman Park Jeong-gyu, representatives of related organizations, and local food producers.

Imsil-gun Opens Large Food Integrated Support Center at Cheese Theme Park
[Photo by Imsil-gun]

The Integrated Food Support Center was promoted with a budget of 5.4 billion KRW, including national and provincial funds, secured through three public contest projects: the Integrated Support Project for Population Declining Areas, the 6th Direct Transaction Activation Market Project, and the New Vitality Plus Project.

The center was established on the site of Imsil Cheese Theme Park, consisting of two buildings (main building and annex) with two floors and a total area of 1,788㎡.

The first floor of the main building serves as a local food direct sales store, selling safe and healthy agricultural products and processed foods produced locally, as well as Imsil-gun’s representative specialty product, ImsilN Cheese.

The second floor houses a Korean beef restaurant that carefully selects and sells 3-year-old female Korean beef cattle raised within the county to consumers.

In particular, the ‘Imsil Hanwoo Restaurant’ is expected to establish itself as the best representative restaurant of Imsil-gun by providing a variety of delicious female Korean beef cuts to tourists visiting the Cheese Theme Park from all over the country.

The annex’s first and second floors function as a public meal support center, responsible for supplying eco-friendly and general agricultural products produced locally to schools, public institutions, and welfare facilities in cooperation with the NongHyup (National Agricultural Cooperative Federation) and producer organizations.

The ‘Public Meal Support Center’ is expected to greatly contribute to increasing farmers’ income and revitalizing the local economy by partnering with NongHyup and producer groups to supply safe food such as eco-friendly agricultural products produced locally.

The Integrated Food Support Center will contribute to the stable supply of Imsil-gun agricultural products through organizing farming households and establishing a local food planned production system.

The county plans to take the lead in increasing farmers’ income by expanding supply channels for locally produced agricultural products, not only at tourist sites such as the Cheese Theme Park and Okjeongho Lake but also by creating similar local food direct sales stores in the former Jeil Theater site across from Imsil Terminal and in metropolitan areas.

County Governor Shim Min said, “It is very meaningful and joyful that the Integrated Food Support Center, the most important project in the virtuous cycle system of food that provides healthy food to local residents, has opened. We will solidify the virtuous cycle system of food that supplies healthy and safe food befitting the clean image of Imsil through the development of the local food direct sales store and the establishment of a planned production system.”

Imsil = Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters, Reporter Park Nosik baekok@asiae.co.kr

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