Chocheon Agricultural Cooperative, first shipment of 25-year-old field mandarins for overseas export

Jeju Jocheon Agricultural Cooperative (Chairman Kim Jin-mun) held the first export shipment ceremony for this year's open-field mandarin oranges at the cooperative's first distribution center on the 7th, exporting 17.6 tons to Canada and 8.4 tons to Guam. The Jocheon Agricultural Cooperative aims to export 400 tons of open-field mandarin oranges, a 30.3% increase from last year's export record of 307 tons. Moving forward, the cooperative plans to actively promote and expand its export volume to the United States, Russia, Canada, Southeast Asia, and other regions. Chairman Kim Jin-mun stated, "The Jocheon Agricultural Cooperative is fostering an export shipping company organization and thoroughly managing pesticide safety, among other things, to ensure that we can ship mandarin oranges that meet the quarantine conditions of the importing countries." He continued, "In particular, agricultural products