Yongin City Harvests 7,000 Tons of 'Baekok Rice' This Year at GAP Production Complex

Production of High-Quality Rice Passing Evaluation for Degree of Lodging and Pest and Disease Control

Yongin City in Gyeonggi Province announced on the 10th that it plans to harvest 7,000 tons of high-quality Baekok rice from 964 hectares of Baekok rice GAP (Good Agricultural Practices) production complexes in Cheoin-gu’s Idong-eup, Namsa-eup, Wonsam-myeon, and Baegam-myeon this year.

A Yongin city official is inspecting the quality of rice at the Baekok rice production complex.
[Photo by Yongin City]

The rice to be harvested is a top-grade product whose quality and stability were verified through inspections conducted from August 19 to September 27 on 1,000 hectares across 722 farms within the local Baekok rice GAP production complexes.

The inspection checked whether the rice variety grown in each plot was Chu-cheong, whether lodging?defined as rice plants tilting more than 45 degrees or stems bent below the panicle?affected more than 5% of the plot, and whether damage from diseases, pests, or weeds exceeded 5%, selecting only the plots that passed these criteria. The rice harvested from these complexes will be purchased and quality-controlled by the National Agricultural Cooperative Federation’s Integrated Rice Processing Complex (RPC) and the drying and storage facilities (DSC) in Idong, Jangpyeong, and Namsa by the 25th of this month.

A city official stated, “To guarantee the quality and stability of Baekok rice, we strictly manage every stage from production to harvest, packaging, and distribution each year,” adding, “We will do our best to ensure citizens can trust and enjoy Baekok rice.”

Meanwhile, Yongin City’s agricultural brand, ‘Baekok rice,’ received the Minister of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs Award, the Rice Brand of the Year, at the ‘Korea Rice Festa’ held in May this year.

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