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(Icheon=Yonhap News) Reporter Lee Woo-seong = On the 2nd, Icheon City in Gyeonggi Province announced that it is recruiting farmers to participate in the 4th "King's Mark Icheon Rice Master Selection Contest." Aspiring farmers can apply by submitting their applications to the local agricultural cooperative by the 20th. The local agricultural cooperative will select one person from each region and recommend them to the Icheon Agricultural Technology Center, where an evaluation will be conducted on the selected farmers. The evaluation results will be announced on October 23 at the Icheon Agricultural Theme Park, the venue for the 24th Icheon Rice Culture Festival. The King's Mark Icheon Rice Master Selection Contest was established to boost the pride of farmers who produce high-quality domestic rice varieties, such as 'Alchanmi,' which are known for their excellent taste and appearance, and to promote the Icheon rice brand. After evaluating the rice paddies on-site and assessing the appearance and protein content of the rice, winners will be selected for the titles of Master, Gold Award, Silver Award, Bronze Award, and Participation Award. The first Master (2022) was Kim Young-il (Moga-myeon), the second (2023) was Kim Hong-won (Bupbal-eup), and the third (2024) was Choi Dong-seok (Bupbal-eup).

European wheat prices fell on Friday, tracking a broader downturn across global markets, as new U.S. tariffs on dozens of trading partners, including the European Union, added to market nerves. Benchmark September milling wheat (BL2U5) on Paris-based Euronext was down 0.6% by 1505 GMT to 195.00 euros a metric ton. French farmers had gathered 89% of this year’s soft wheat crop by July 28, still running ahead of the five-year average of 78% after hot and dry weather in July helped farmers accelerate work, data from farm office FranceAgriMer showed on Friday. In Argentina, a major wheat exporter, recent rainfall improved soil moisture reserves for the country’s 2025/26 wheat crop, with nearly all of the planted area now in normal to optimal condition, the Buenos Aires Grains Exchange said on Thursday. Meanwhile, grain consultancy Sovecon downgraded its forecast for Russia’s wheat crop in 2025 to 83.3 million metric tons (mmt) from 83.6 mmt previously, due to weaker-than-expected ...

The gross harvest of grains and legumes this year is expected to be 53.4 million tons, which is 5.1% less than last year's figures. This forecast was announced by Oleksandr Nechhyporenko, Deputy Director of the Research and Innovation Center "Institute of Agrarian Economics," as reported by "ProAgro Group." According to him, the average yield will be within 50.1 tons per hectare, which is almost equal to last year's. "At the same time, the yield of wheat will be 7.8% less, and barley 7.1% less. An increase in productivity is expected for buckwheat (by 1.5%) and rye (by 2%)," noted the expert. Also, Oleksandr Nechhyporenko pointed out that the areas under wheat and corn have decreased by 30% and 25%, respectively, since the beginning of the full-scale invasion. Farmers are compensating to some extent by increasing the yield of crops, primarily due to the introduction of innovative field cultivation technologies.