Officially exported Korean paprika to China with 12 years of effort

(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Go Eun-ji = Korean paprika will be officially exported to China from the 7th. The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs held a paprika shipping ceremony in Gimje, Jeollabuk-do on the 4th to commemorate the export of domestic paprika to China. Vice Minister of Agriculture and Food Lee Jae-wook said in a greeting at the shipping ceremony, "With the opening of a new market called China, it will diversify the risk of the export market concentrated in Japan and contribute greatly to the increase of farm household income." "Please do your best in quality control so that we can settle down." The government started quarantine negotiations with the Chinese side in 2007 and signed a memorandum of understanding on the quarantine requirements of Korea and China on November 13 last year. Afterwards, a Chinese quarantine officer came directly into Korea and tried to carry out local quarantine, but entry was difficult due to the new coronavirus infection ...