Increasing the income of sorghum farmers when the production of domestic kaolyangju is resumed in South Korea

It has been argued that the domestic market for kaolyangju can be developed to increase the income of sorghum growers. This claim was made at the 'Koryangju Industry Status and Prospect Academic Debate' held on YouTube by the Rural Development Administration on the 2nd. Kim Sang-nam, head of the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences of the Rural Development Administration, said, “The domestic production of koryang wine was stopped about 30 years ago, and since then, all of it is imported from China. We can create a virtuous cycle of community development,” he said. In fact, the domestic kaoliang liquor market is 100% occupied by foreign products such as China and Taiwan, and the import volume of kaoliang liquor has been increasing at an average annual rate of 16.4% for the past three to four years. However, some point out that production cost reduction through mechanization must be accompanied by direct production of sorghum in Korea. The current domestic sorghum ...