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(Yeongdong=Yonhap News) Reporter Park Byeong-gi = Chungbuk Yeongdong County announced on the 25th that it will hold its 10th Blueberry Festival on the 5th of next month at the Geumgang Mochi Rural Experience Village in Haksan-myeon Jinaeri. The event will feature blueberry harvesting and cooking experiences, making sticky rice cakes, and traditional game experiences. Visitors can taste various processed foods using blueberries, such as bingsu, ade, jelly, and makgeolli, and will also have the opportunity to plant blueberry seedlings in pots to take home. A county official said, "This event is designed to promote the excellence of blueberries, the village's representative cash crop, and secure regular customers through direct sales at affordable prices." Since being designated as a rural experience village in 2004, Geumgang Mochi Village has been operating experience programs, including annual burning of straw house festivals and blueberry festivals. bgipark@yna.co.kr

Strawberry gardens established on 100 decares of land in Ağrı are both increasing farmers' income and opening the doors to a new era in regional agriculture.

Gyeongbuk Goryeong County (County Mayor Lee Nam-chul) announced that Woori Deul-en Agricultural Cooperative (Representative Lee Heon-gwang) was selected as the top-performing (1st place) demonstration site in the 2025 performance evaluation, after participating in the 'Gyeongbuk Strawberry Production and Export Specialized Demonstration Site Performance Report Conference' held at Stanford Hotel from the 12th to 13th. This conference, hosted by Gyeongsangbuk-do, was organized to share the annual operational performance of export demonstration sites and evaluate the performance of each site in areas such as cultivation status, management performance, and administrative support by selecting outstanding sites. Goryeong County and Woori Deul-en Agricultural Cooperative demonstrated excellence in this evaluation through pesticide-free strawberry quality management, overseas buyer invitation events,