[2025 Climate Disaster Report] Extreme rainfall that poured down for four days wiped out 450 strawberry houses.

Published Dec 23, 2025

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[Hankuk Farmers Newspaper Reporter Gu Ja-ryong] "When we visited the farms affected by the March spring wildfires to carry out recovery support activities, we did not know that we would become victims of the devastating extreme summer rainfall in July. After demolishing the strawberry greenhouses that were destroyed by the floodwaters that breached the river embankments, we are putting in all our efforts to recover, but it is still difficult." Yu Seung-hyun (55), the chairman of the Han Federation of Agricultural Cooperatives in Sancheong County, said this during a recent meeting in Cheonghyeon-ri, Sinan-myeon, Sancheong-gun, Gyeongnam, which was declared a special disaster area due to massive flooding caused by concentrated rainfall last summer. In Sancheong County, nestled in the foothills of Jirisan, four days of heavy rainfall occurred from July 16 to July 19.

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In July, heavy rains caused by the collapse of a river embankment led to landslides and flooding in the Sancheong area Although some farms were hastily repaired the high price of seedlings and poor crop growth caused the strawberry yield to be halved, leaving a bitter taste The level of recovery costs has not been determined, causing distress "I didn't know that I would be a victim of the summer floods... when I was helping farmers affected by the spring forest fires" "When we were visiting farmers affected by the spring forest fires in March to carry out recovery support activities, we had no idea that we would become victims of the disastrous summer floods in July. We are making every effort to repair the strawberry greenhouses that were demolished after being swept away by the floods that collapsed the river embankment, but it is still difficult." Yu Seung-hyun (55), chairman of the Han Union of Farmers' Associations in Sancheong County, Gyeongnam Province, made these remarks. ...
Source: Agrinet

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