Farmers are furious at the ‘One-Day Hanwoo Law' in 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 the worst heat wave in history and soaring production costs. It was also a difficult year in terms of policy and quarantine, with the failure of the Hanwoo Act, the spread of livestock infectious diseases, the dispute over the expansion of the breeding area for 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.’ In the Hanwoo sector, where the difficulties of farmers have been aggravated by the formation of wholesale prices below the production cost for nearly three years, the so-called ‘One-Day Hanwoo Act’, which was created when the government ...