South Korea: Processing miscellaneous food from imported products, Okcheon Specialized Crop Processing Center heading to the mountain

Published 2021년 6월 15일

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A specialized tree processing center in Okcheon, North Chungcheong Province, which was built to popularize lacquer, is struggling as sales plummet and raw materials are scarce. The center, which cost over 32 billion won to build, has shifted to processing 'miscellaneous foods' instead of local agricultural products. Sales peaked in 2017 but have since declined significantly, with most of the sales in that year being imported fermented noni. The center is now manufacturing processed foods using hyssop, but this is not a local agricultural product produced in Okcheon. The center has a plan to produce juice in the second half of the year but it is unknown if this will be implemented.

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(Okcheon = Yonhap News) Reporter Shim Gyu-seok = A specialized tree processing center in Okcheon, North Chungcheong Province, where government and local funds were invested with the goal of 'popularizing lacquer', is faltering. It is pointed out that sales plummet every year and that raw materials are scarce, and the local specialties have been transformed into facilities that process 'miscellaneous foods' by looking into other local agricultural and livestock products. According to Okcheon-gun on the 15th, the specialized tree processing center in Maehwa-ri, Okcheon-eup, was completed in December 2016. It is the first time in four years since the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs was selected for the 'Local Industry Promotion Project'. 3.37 billion won was invested, including 2.244 billion won in national and local expenses and 793 million won in self-pay. Okcheon-gun additionally spent 1 billion won in local expenses in 2016 to install processing facilities in the ...

Source: Yna