South Korea, Haenam sweet potatoes to be cultivated as a regional specialized cluster

Published 2021년 8월 4일

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Haenam County in Jeollanam-do, South Korea, plans to develop a regional specialized industrial cluster to enhance the sweet potato industry. The project will receive 3 billion won investment by 2024, focusing on low-temperature storage and processing facilities, joint brand development, product marketing, and tourism. As the largest sweet potato production complex in the region, Haenam aims to improve distribution infrastructure, create new value from underutilized potatoes, and stimulate the software sector. The goal is to boost the industry by enhancing industrial infrastructure and promoting differentiated products for staying-type tourists.

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(Haenam = Yonhap News) Reporter Jo Geun-young = Jeollanam-do Haenam Sweet Potatoes will be nurtured as a regional-specialized cluster linked with front and rear industries. Haenam-gun announced on the 4th that it would create a regional specialized industrial cluster in which primary, secondary, and tertiary industries such as sweet potato production, manufacturing and processing, and experience and tourism are convergence after being selected for a contest to create a rural convergence industrial district organized by the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs. This project will invest 3 billion won by 2024 to support the establishment of low-temperature storage and processing facilities for sweet potatoes, joint brand development, product marketing, and development of experience/tourism programs. Haenam is the largest sweet potato main production complex producing 34,000 tons of sweet potatoes per year on 600 farms and 1,964ha cultivation area, accounting for 56% of the ...

Source: Yna