대한민국 곡물 및 시리얼 인사이트

[Reporter Jeongmin Koo, Korea Agricultural and Fishery Newspaper] “The government should immediately withdraw the mandatory adjustment system for rice cultivation areas that infringes on farmers’ farming rights.” Farmers’ groups in the Jeonbuk region have come out strongly against the government’s coercive policy to reduce rice cultivation areas. Farmers’ groups, including the Jeonbuk Federation of Farmers, held a press conference in front of the Jeonbuk Provincial Office on the 13th and strongly criticized, “The government is unilaterally pushing forward with the adjustment system for rice cultivation areas,” and “The government has been deceiving the public by saying that the cause of the domestic rice oversupply is farmers and excessive farmland.” The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs recently announced that it will resolve the structural oversupply in the rice industry and stabilize rice prices and increase farm household income.

[Reporter Kim Young-min, Korea Agricultural and Fishery Newspaper] The government's decision to reduce the support limit for rice purchase funds to RPCs (Rice Processing Complexes) that lowered the 2024 rice purchase price compared to the previous year is being criticized as interfering with private management rights. In December of last year, the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs announced a policy to differentially support rice purchase funds so that RPCs and others can determine rice purchase prices by reflecting the rice supply and demand situation and RPCs that have already determined purchase prices can adjust their purchase prices. Accordingly, RPCs that froze or raised the 2024 rice purchase price compared to the previous year will expand the support amount for rice purchase funds and high-quality rice distribution activation projects in 2025 and

The Feed Leaders Committee of South Korea (FLC) purchased approximately 65,000 metric tonnes of animal feed wheat from the United States on Wednesday in a private transaction without issuing a tender to international buyers, European traders reported. Wheat was estimated to have cost $249.99 per ton, c&f. Plus a $1.50 surcharge per ton for port