A 'Shared Traditional Food Processing Center' to Open in Icheon

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Next year, a 'Traditional Food Processing Center' where individual farms can collectively process traditional foods will be established in Icheon-si, Gyeonggi-do.

On the 25th, Icheon-si announced that it was selected for the '2024 Hangang Watershed Fund Eco-friendly Clean Project' competition hosted by the Hangang Basin Environmental Office. The city explained that it will invest 1.4 billion KRW, including 840 million KRW secured from the Hangang Watershed Management Fund through this competition, to build a 'Shared Traditional Food Processing Center' by next year.

The 'Eco-friendly Clean Project' supports excellent projects that minimize water pollution in the upper Hangang region and promote sustainable regional development.

The shared traditional food processing center, promoted as a campaign pledge of the 8th local government administration, is a shared processing facility where small-scale agricultural product processing sites can be gathered and used jointly. Its advantages include reducing redundant investments by individual farms and enabling integrated treatment and focused management of water pollutants that may occur during product production.

The center will be established on a 400㎡ scale within the 'Icheon-si Southern Region Scientific Farming Complex' located in Janghowon-eup, Icheon-si. It will be equipped with a shared kitchen and shared office for producing traditional foods, as well as a management office.

An official from Icheon-si said, "Through successful project implementation, we aim not only to contribute to improving water quality in the Hangang watershed but also to promote the consumption of local agricultural products and revitalize the local economy."

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