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[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

[Reporter Gu Ja-ryong, Korea Agricultural and Fishery Newspaper] Gyeongnam Province (Governor Park Wan-soo) will begin supporting distribution costs for farmers who supply eco-friendly rice to regions outside of Gyeongnam Province starting this year. It plans to pay 100,000 won per ton for organic rice and 80,000 won per ton for pesticide-free rice. Gyeongnam Province announced that it will support 100,000 won per ton for organic rice and 80,000 won per ton for pesticide-free rice when eco-friendly rice produced in Gyeongnam Province is delivered to consumers outside of the province through the ‘Eco-friendly Rice Consumption Promotion Support Project’ being newly implemented this year. It was decided to exclude distribution companies or wholesalers/retailers outside of the province from the support target. Gyeongnam Province plans to increase the production of eco-friendly rice produced in Gyeongnam Province to around 10,000 tons by 2024.