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Due to the exceptionally long rainy season and subsequent typhoons this summer, fruit farming is severely damaged.
Some farmers offer ugly fruit inexpensively, which is good enough to eat even if it is scratched.
Reporter Lee Seong-hoon reported.
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A boat farm in Cheonan, Chungcheongnam-do where a typhoon scratched.
In the strong wind, the ships that have fallen from the trees lie on the floor.
[So far so that it becomes unusable...
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[(Can't you sell these things at all?) You have to dispose of them at all.] In
the first half of this year, we had already suffered cold damage.
[Yecheon Choi/Pear Farmer: Three typhoons passed by and 15%
of the fruits
were damaged, so it is judged that about 30% of the average annual harvest has decreased.] The
situation is similar to the apple farm in Yeongju, Gyeongbuk.
The roots of the trees are also weakened, so you have to worry about farming next year.
As the ratio of high commodity fruits fell and the overall harvest decreased, the fruit radical soared, and both apples and pears increased their wholesale prices by 50% from last year.
After contemplation, some fruit tree farmers decided to deliver so-called'ugly fruits' that are damaged or small in size to hypermarkets.
There is no difference in freshness and sweetness, but the price is about 30% cheaper.
[Lee Mi-ryeong/Gangnam-gu, Seoul: In turn (to upload), it looks a little bit so, but the sugar content is high...
.] The
damage caused by three typhoons in the main production areas of fruit trees such as North Gyeongsang Province and Jeonnam is 5,478 ha, 19 times the area of Yeouido.
To date, the amount of ugly fruit delivered by fruit farmers is 360 tons, but the mart plans to secure and sell 2,500 tons within this year.
(Video coverage: Park Seung-won, video editing: So Ji-hye)