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(Seocheon=Yonhap News) Reporter Jeong Yun-deok = On the 13th, Seocheon City in South Chungcheong Province announced that its representative agricultural product, the Seocheon Six-Cleft Garlic, will be available to consumers through 125 Homeplus stores nationwide and public home shopping TV. From the 14th to the 17th and the 21st to the 24th, 30,000 packs of 200g peeled Seocheon Six-Cleft Garlic will be sold at Homeplus stores. This is the first time that Seocheon Six-Cleft Garlic is being sold in peeled form. At the public home shopping, 1,500 boxes of 3kg peeled Seocheon Six-Cleft Garlic will be sold on the 22nd. The Director of the Agricultural and Food Distribution Division of Seocheon City stated, "Seocheon Six-Cleft Garlic boasts a long history, mentioned in the Annals of the Joseon Dynasty and the Veritable Records of the Joseon Dynasty, and it is grown in a warm oceanic climate and fertile loess, resulting in excellent taste, aroma, and outstanding anti-cancer and anti-bacterial effects. We expect that this promotional event will expand the distribution channels for local superior agricultural products and increase consumer accessibility."

Jeju Andeok Agricultural Cooperative (Chairman Lee Han-yeol) held a garlic cultivation and production management education event on the 8th at the Sakyeri Sanbang Welfare Center, with over 60 garlic-growing farmers in attendance. This education was part of the support project for the cultivation of joint management bodies for field crops this year, focusing on improving the quality of garlic and establishing a stable production base by providing various information on garlic items and professional cultivation and production management techniques before the garlic sowing season. The education content covered the cultivation and breeding of new garlic varieties, garlic seedling cultivation and tissue culture, the selection of garlic seeds and mechanical sowing, etc. Chairman Lee Han-yeol said, "For the systematic cultivation of garlic items, it is necessary to gradually produce and distribute superior garlic strains."

Haenam County (Mayor Myeong Hyeon-gwan) has embarked on a major innovation to strengthen the competitiveness of its flagship product, Haenam sweet potatoes, by redesigning the entire sweet potato industry process from production and processing to distribution. In particular, the establishment of the Haenam Sweet Potato Research Center and the formation of a dedicated team are accelerating the creation of the foundation for the branding of Haenam sweet potatoes. The research center, established in Pyeonghwa-ri, Samsan-myeon, with an area of 30,000 square meters, serves as an advanced base for researching and disseminating new sweet potato varieties and production technologies for Haenam sweet potatoes. Equipped with research facilities and open-field test plots, it will be responsible for the systematic technological development and field verification of the sweet potato industry. The development of superior Haenam-specific varieties to replace foreign sweet potato varieties and weather conditions.