South Korea: This year's peach harvest is good, production increased by 7% compared to the previous year

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South Korea

Published Jul 13, 2022

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The price of peaches this year is expected to decrease slightly compared to the previous year as production increases due to good growth and crop conditions. The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs announced that the cultivation area of peaches, a representative summer fruit, increased by 4% from last year, and the number of production units increased by 3% compared to last year due to favorable weather conditions. In particular, this year, due to favorable spring weather conditions, damage to low temperatures during flowering was minimal, disease occurrence was small, and there was hardly any bacterial hole disease that had a major impact on quality deterioration and production decrease. However, the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs predicted that the peaches produced this year have good quality such as sugar content and color, but there is no damage to low temperatures in spring, so the number of fruits per tree increases, resulting in smaller fruit sizes compared to last year. In this regard, the Korea Rural Economic Research Institute predicted that the price of peaches this month will be 16,000 to 20,000 won based on white peaches and 4 kg of product, down from 22,000 won last year.

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Park Gwang-hyeon, head of the distribution center of Jain Agricultural Cooperatives, located in Gyeongsan, Gyeongbuk, also predicted that “the peaches being shipped this year are of good quality such as sugar content, so delivery orders are increasing compared to the previous year. did. Kim Jong-goo, director of distribution and consumption policy at the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs said, “The supply and demand situation of peaches is expected to be good so far, but we will strengthen the cooperative system with related organizations in ...

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