When the government decided to abandon the status of developing countries within the World Trade Organization (WTO), peasant groups protested.

The Joint Farmers' Action for maintaining WTO developing country status, which consists of 33 organizations including the National Federation of Farmers' Associations (Jeon-Nong) and the National Federation of Women's Farmers' Congress, held a press conference in front of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Jongno-gu, Seoul on October 25. "To bring agriculture to the hands of the United States."

More than 30 people from all over the country, including representatives from farmers' organizations, said in a statement that, "If you give up developing country status, you will need to reduce your AMS by half, and the United States will put more pressure on opening agricultural products." "It will spread like crazy embers in the fields."

In order to save Korea's agriculture, it is the first priority to preserve trade and food sovereignty. "If the Moon Jae-in government disregards the petitions of Gearco farmers and declares them to relinquish their status as a developing country, they will respond with a strong struggle."

Former Chairman Park Haeng-deok criticized, "The farmers are being pushed to the last place where there is no place to be pushed away." "If the government knew the desperate heart of the farmers, it would not have set a policy of giving up the status of WTO developing countries."

"Is there anything that the government has promised to farmers through various free trade agreements (FTA) so far?"

The peasant groups also struggled with the police as they attempted to enter the Foreign Ministry's office, saying they would comment at the Ministerial Meeting on Foreign Economic Relations, which starts at 8:00 am.

(yunhap news)