Sweet potato ranks ‘2nd’ among Korea’s seven major food crops and is responding to rapidly increasing demand through mass expansion in South Korea

Among the seven major grains (rice, barley, wheat, soybeans, corn, potatoes, and sweet potatoes), which crop has the second highest agricultural production after rice and the highest farm household income? It's sweet potatoes. Recently, sweet potato farmers' preference for domestic varieties has increased, and the market share of domestic varieties is increasing every year, but the supply system for new varieties is insufficient to keep up with field demand. To respond to this, the Rural Development Administration began improving the sweet potato supply system. On the 27th, the National Institute of Crop Science of the Rural Development Administration held a 'Council on Disseminating Measures to Improve the Sweet Potato Supply System' at the Korea Food Institute's Bioenergy Crop Research Institute in Muan, Jeollanam-do to discuss ways to improve the sweet potato supply system. About 50 people in charge of provincial agricultural technology institutes and city/county agricultural ...