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[Reporter Woo Jeong-su, Korea Agricultural and Fishery Newspaper] Grape production and distribution officials have formed a consensus on the need for thorough quality control, expressing concerns about overproduction of Shine Muscat this year as well. The Korea Grape Association and the Agricultural and Food New Distribution Research Institute recently announced that they held the ‘2025 First Grape Mandatory Self-Contribution Main Producing Region Council’ at Hotel Rosenia in Gimcheon. This Main Producing Region Council was prepared for the purpose of forecasting this year’s grape industry and linking with local government officials from main grape producing regions to coordinate supply and demand and promote consumption. Accordingly, this Main Producing Region Council was attended by the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, distribution officials from main producing regions, heads of member agricultural cooperatives, and representatives of the Korea Rural Community Corporation.

Agrometeorological conditions in Ukraine during most days of the first decade of April were unfavorable for the initial growth of early spring grain and leguminous crops, carrying out spring field work and extremely unfavorable for the flowering of fruit and berry crops. This fact was noted by specialists of the Ukrhydrometeorological Center in their decadal report, reports APK-Inform. "At the beginning of the decade, the growth and development of winter and sown early spring grain crops took place under favorable agrometeorological conditions. But in the second half of the decade, conditions deteriorated due to a sharp change in weather to extremely cold with strong and prolonged frosts, which significantly restrained (sometimes stopped) the growth and development of agricultural crops," - noted agrometeorologists. They also added that due to low air temperatures, the accumulation of effective heat practically did not occur. Weak vegetative processes were observed in ...

The Jeonnam Agricultural Research and Extension Services (Director Kim Haeng-ran) announced on the 11th that it held the ‘Jeonnam Strawberry Seedling Production and Supply Public-Private Council’ to strengthen the stable production and supply system of high-quality strawberry seedlings. About 40 people including provincial, city/county officials, and seedling production farmers attended the council and discussed seedling business management plans to strengthen the sustainability of the Jeonnam strawberry industry. While the Jeonnam Agricultural Research and Extension Services has been steadily distributing high-quality strawberry seedlings, problems in management have been continuously raised in the field, such as some seedlings being used as formal seedlings rather than for propagation. Accordingly, the council held the ‘Jeonnam Strawberry Seedling Business Management Public-Private Council’.