Gwangyang Agricultural Cooperative launches rural labor support during harvest season.

About 150 volunteers participate in ginger and persimmon harvest support to ease the burden on farmers Gwangyang Agricultural Cooperative (Chairman Heo Soon-gu) announced that it has been conducting volunteer activities to help with the ginger and persimmon harvest in nine farms in Gwangyang-eup, Bonggang-myeon, and Okryong-myeon from the 6th to the 20th of this month, as the autumn harvest season has begun. This volunteer activity includes Chairman Heo Soon-gu, the Gwangyang Agricultural Cooperative Women's College Alumni Association Happy Sharing Volunteer Team, multicultural family graduates, and about 150 others who are providing great support to farms facing labor shortages. Recently, labor shortages in rural areas have been worsening due to aging and the phenomenon of avoiding rural work. In particular, this year, with abnormal weather such as heat waves and heavy rains, the quality of crops has deteriorated and prices have fallen, making it difficult for farms to hire paid ...