Intensive cultivation of beet and buckwheat as local specialty crops in Jeju, South Korea

[Korea Rural Newspaper Reporter Jaenam Kang] The Jeju Special Self-Governing Province Agricultural Technology Institute (Director Jaejong Hwang) plans to invest 7.7 billion won in total project cost by 2025 to intensively foster two beet and buckwheat crops as local specialty crops. Beet plans to focus on creating added value by selecting varieties suitable for Jeju by crop type and developing stable production technology, establishing safety quality standards and developing post-harvest management technology, developing processed products and establishing a distribution system. Buckwheat is expected to strengthen the competitiveness of the buckwheat industry by improving productivity through the establishment of a domestic variety seed supply system, development and distribution of cultivation manuals, and improvement of processed products development and distribution conditions. At the end of the project, the Jeju Provincial Agricultural Technology Institute predicted that the ...