Danyang Aaronia cultivation farms plunged 63% over 3 years amid price collapse

Published Oct 3, 2020

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The number of Aaronia cultivation farms in Danyang, North Chungcheong Province, has decreased significantly due to excess production and increased imports of powdered aronia, leading to falling prices. Last year and this year, 285 farmers closed some or all of their orchards as part of a government project that subsidized the cost of picking up trees. As a result, the number of Aaronia cultivation farms decreased by 63% in three years. Farmers who gave up Aaronia farming switched to cereal farming. The project will end this year, and 140 farms will continue to build Aaronia.

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(Danyang = Yonhap News) Reporter Park Jae-cheon = The number of Aaronia cultivation farms in Danyang, North Chungcheong Province, which was once a major producer of Aaronia, has decreased significantly. According to Danyang-gun on the 3rd, last year and this year, 285 farmers participated in the Aaronia orchard maintenance project and closed some or all of the orchards. This project is to induce closure by subsidizing 600,000 won per ㏊ to the cost of picking up trees such as equipment rental. Financial resources were provided by the government fund last year and the armament this year. Thanks to this project, the number of Aaronia cultivation farms decreased by 63% in 3 years from 379 (cultivated area 129㏊) to 140 (〃 40㏊) in 2017. Since 2013, the military has been making intensive investments by adopting Aaronia as the next-generation income crop. This is why Danyang once accounted for 10% of the nation's Aaronia production. However, due to the nationwide excess production and ...

Source: Yna