Egg production dropped due to record-breaking heat waves, controversy over expansion of breeding area in the Constitutional Court of South Korea

The livestock industry, which started off with new hopes in the year of Gapjin, is preparing to bid farewell to the year of Gapjin and welcome the new year of Eulsa. Throughout this year, livestock farmers worked hard in the field to ensure stable livestock farming despite difficult conditions such as unprecedented heat waves and soaring production costs. It was also a difficult year in terms of policy and quarantine, with the failure of the Korean Beef Act, the spread of livestock infectious diseases, the dispute over the expansion of the area for raising laying hens, and the continued quota tariff on chicken. The Korea Agricultural and Fishery Newspaper will look back on the eventful year of Gapjin through ‘Issues of 2024 by Livestock Type.’ The entire livestock industry had a difficult year, but this year, the laying hens industry was particularly severely affected both domestically and internationally, due to the unprecedented heat waves, reduced productivity, ...