[On the Scene] "At the level where the bean pods have stuck to the ground"…Farmers uproot green beans ahead of harvest

(Kimje=Yonhap News) Reporter Nabo Bae = "This is the first time in September that we have seen so much rain. The roots have rotted, leaving no soybeans to harvest, so the farmers have come out to the fields." On the 27th, at a soybean field in Buryang-myeon, Kimje City, North Jeolla Province, farmer Park Heung-sik (64) sighed as he looked at the soybean plants swaying in the field. On that day, farmers in Kimje City held a rally, urging, "Conduct a thorough investigation of the damage to soybeans caused by the September rains and declare Kimje City a special disaster area," as they overturned soybeans with tractors. This is because, due to unprecedented September rains, including 209 mm of rain in Kimje on the 7th of last month, the soybeans did not grow properly. Kimje City estimates that about 4,000 hectares of the 7,200 hectares of soybeans were submerged in water due to the rain, and about 1,200 hectares are expected to be eligible for damage relief funds. However, farmers ...