Goyang-si Jeopmok Cactus Wins 'Excellence Award' as National Top Quality Agricultural Product Production Complex by NACF

Bimoran Accounts for 37% of South Korea's Flower Exports
Popular Overseas for Its Various Colors

Goyang Special City, Gyeonggi Province (Mayor Lee Dong-hwan) announced on the 9th that grafted cacti won the Grand Prize at the 2024 National Best Quality Agricultural Products Production Complex Selection Competition held by the Rural Development Administration's Horticulture and Specialty Crops Division.

Goyang Special City won the Grand Prize for Grafted Cactus at the 2024 National Best Quality Agricultural Products Production Complex Selection Contest organized by the Rural Development Administration's Horticulture and Specialty Crops Division. The photo shows a grafted cactus. Provided by Goyang Special City. Photo by Goyang Special City

The Best Quality Agricultural Products Production Complex is selected from production groups that produce, cultivate, ship, and distribute domestically developed new varieties, striving to promote our varieties both domestically and internationally.

Grafted cacti, which hold a 70% share of the global market, have over 45% of their production volume coming from Goyang City. As the largest domestic production area for grafted cacti, Goyang accounts for 37% of flower exports.

Also known as ‘Bimoran,’ grafted cacti lack chlorophyll and thus have difficulty growing on their own, so they are grafted onto green triangular-prickly cacti rootstocks for cultivation. They are popular both domestically and overseas in various colors such as red, yellow, orange, and pink.

The Goyang Cactus Research Association (Chairman Lee Gil-jae), which won the Grand Prize (Minister of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs Award) this time, cultivates and produces new varieties of grafted cacti in new colors every year, striving for the highest quality and the best prices.

Mayor Lee Dong-hwan of Goyang City stated, “We are promoting projects such as establishing a disease-free seedling farm and research on reducing grafted cactus diseases using coffee grounds to foster new varieties of grafted cacti,” adding, “We will take the lead in enhancing overseas market competitiveness through the dissemination of new technologies to improve high-quality productivity.”

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