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[Korea Farmers' and Fishermen's Newspaper, Reporter Song Hae-chang] The Korea Young Farmers and Management Association of Dangjin City held a '2025 Rice Planting Demonstration' on May 30th in the Seokmun Reclaimed Land area of Songsan-myeon. The demonstration was attended by approximately 200 people, including Song Tae-sung, chairman of the Chungnam Provincial Farmers Association, Lee Jun-seon, policy vice-chairman of the Chungnam Provincial Farmers Association, Im Jun-taek, chairman of the Dangjin City Farmers Association, Oh Seong-hwan, mayor of Dangjin City, Jeong Gwang-sik, head of the Dangjin branch of the National Agricultural Cooperative Federation, and other association members. Chairman Im Jun-taek and other members personally performed rice planting, praying for a bountiful harvest for the year. After the planting, the association held a luncheon meeting with the city officials and conveyed the difficulties facing the agricultural sector.

Gangjin County (County Mayor Kang Jin-won) has achieved the milestone of winning an encouragement award for the 20th consecutive year in the '2025 Jeollanam-do Top 10 High-Quality Brand Rice Evaluation'. This achievement is assessed as the result of multifaceted efforts to secure global competitiveness, including continuous quality improvement of Gangjin rice, enhancement of brand image, and expansion of exports. The evaluation was conducted under the auspices of Jeollanam-do to ensure fairness and objectivity, with taste evaluation, appearance quality, variety mixing rate, mechanical quality, and safety inspections entrusted to four professional analysis institutions including the Korea Food Research Institute, National Agricultural Products Quality Management Service, Agricultural Technology Institute, and Health and Environment Research Institute.

Jangheung County (County Chief Kim Sung) announced on the 30th of last month that Armi Rice, the region's representative brand, was selected as the top prize winner in the '10 Best High-Quality Brand Rice in South Jeolla Province' evaluation. The '10 Best High-Quality Brand Rice in South Jeolla Province' evaluation has been conducted since 2003 to improve rice industry quality and promote sales. Six professional institutions, including the Jeollanam-do Agricultural Technology Institute, Health and Environment Research Institute, Agricultural Product Quality Management Agency, and Korea Food Research Institute, participated in a fair assessment. The evaluation was conducted through a blind assessment of quality, grade, and taste items by randomly purchasing samples from sales outlets of rice brands from 14 cities and counties in South Jeolla Province.