Chungcheongnam-do

▲ East Asian ‘Food and Agriculture’ Regional Forum 2016 Scene

The 2nd ‘Agricultural Forum of 3 East Asian Local Governments’ has opened in Shizuoka, Japan. This forum was held by Chungnam-do last year for the first time that related to agricultures in worldwide, local governments of KOR?CHN?JAP try to find cooperation and solidarity by sharing their agricultural policies.

Around 300 people including the Governor of Chungnam-do An Hee Jung, the Governor of Shizuoka Kawakatsu Heita, the Ambassador of the Republic of Korea to Japan Lee Jun kyu, Xi- the Minister of Agriculture of Zhejiang Province of People’s Republic of China Uien Zie attended the forum this year.

The governor An pointed out that agricultural circumstances among 3 countries are different but agreed with changing agricultural policy to focus on public value of farm villages and farming.

The governor An said, “the core of our new agricultural policy is to focus on building an agricultural infra and make farmers to organize themselves as both manufacturer and provider and make an improvement on their field.”

An also said, “I inspired by Kawakatsu’s words ‘the agricultural products are same as agricultural arts’.
In addition, “we can build our future together by sharing a concept of cultivating agricultural art individually.”, and “based on this concept, we must change our outdated agricultural system that from 20th century.”

Also, in this forum, 11 cases of agricultural issues from three countries had been shared. △ Ho-Kim, the Innovation committee ‘3 innovations of Chungnam-do and cooperation between food and agriculture’ △ Junhwan Hwang, the Committee of Alps Village ‘Happy Alps Village’, △ Taehoon Ko, the CEO of Geumsan Black Wild Ginseng, ‘Leading the new market of ginseng, Geumsan Black Wild Ginseng’.

Meanwhile, the forum was associated with ‘2016 World Tea Festival’, so 7 agricultural high school students, members of 3 agricultural innovation, tea related private organizations attended the forum.

In ‘2016 World Tea Festival’, ‘2017 Guemsan World Ginseng Expo’ and ‘Chungnam-do’s Exported Agricultural Specialty Product’ have been advertised at ‘Agricultural Legacy’ section to designate Geumsan ginsengs’ to the world agricultural heritage.