1.8 tons of asparagus from Hwasun-gun, South Korea will be exported to Japan

(Hwasun = Yonhap News) Reporter Cheon Jeong-in = About 1.8 tons of asparagus produced in Hwasun, Jeollanam-do will be exported to Japan. This is a 17% increase from last year's exports, and Hwasun-gun expects it to become a stable source of income for local farms in the future. Hwasun Asparagus cultivation farms are all 11 farms with 4.9㏊, the largest cultivation area in Jeollanam-do. Hwasun has been nurturing farmers for cultivation by selecting asparagus as the main income crop in Chunyang-myeon since 2008. The first export was successful in three years after that, but there was no record from the following year, but last year, the export route was opened again thanks to the efforts of the Hwasun Agricultural Technology Center and farmers. The county plans to invest 400 million won by next year to carry out a pilot project to build an asparagus complex, and support rain-covering facilities, temperature reduction facilities, and irrigation systems to improve ...