Samcheok City, South Korea: Intensive development of white asparagus

[Samcheok = Newspim] Reporter Lee Hyung-seop = Gangwon Samcheok City focuses on fostering asparagus as a new income crop. According to the city on the 2nd, last year it developed and invented a'softening cultivation shading device' that can easily and reuse crops, and developed and invented a technology for simple production of white asparagus, which is low in production and expensive in Korea, by collecting opinions of asparagus growers. Patented. Softening cultivation is a method that blocks sunlight to suppress the production of chlorophyll and makes the crop white.It has a soft, soft texture, and good flavor, so it is used for cultivation of many crops such as asparagus, green onions, and aralia. Samcheok City plans to expand the cultivation area of asparagus from 4㏊ to 8㏊ by 2022, investing 500 million won this year. In order to improve the quality of asparagus and reduce production costs, 40,000 seeds of high-quality seedlings will be supplied, and the company will ...