The city of Gongju speeds up the transition to "locally sourced" school meals.

Published Dec 23, 2025

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[Agricultural, Fisheries, and Livestock Newspaper=Reporter Nara Park] Gongju City has initiated a full-scale discussion to increase the proportion of locally produced agricultural products used in public school meals. On the 22nd, Gongju City held a workshop at Hills Forest, attended by around 70 people including agricultural producers supplying vegetables for public school meals and related officials, and focused on discussing plans to replace agricultural products procured from outside the region with local Gongju agricultural products for school meals. In this workshop, strategies were proposed to create a stable structure for supplying agricultural products to school meals through the organization of producing farmers, and to gradually transition items currently heavily dependent on outside procurement to locally produced Gongju products. To this end, the city

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Gongju City has initiated a full-scale discussion to increase the local share of agricultural products used in public school meals. On the 22nd, Gongju City held a workshop at the Hills Forest, attended by around 70 people including agricultural producers supplying to public school meals and relevant officials, focusing on the discussion of replacing agricultural products for school meals procured from outside the region with those from Gongju. In this workshop, strategies were proposed to create a stable structure for supplying agricultural products to school meals through the organization of agricultural producers, and to gradually convert items with high dependence on outside sources to local Gongju products. To this end, the city plans to secure additional school meal contracted farmers, currently at 128 people, and expand the cultivation area, aiming to convert 5-10% of the supply volume of agricultural products from Chungnam and the entire country to Gongju products next ...

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