<Anchor> As the
strong cold continues, cold wave damage continues everywhere.
Green house crops, which are relatively less affected by the cold, are rotted or dried up due to cold damage, and farmers who have difficulty in proper harvesting are plowing their fields at all.
Reporter Lee Yong-sik.
<Reporter> This
is a winter potato cultivation complex in Gimje, Jeollabuk-do.
Potato stems and leaves that should grow green in the green house have frozen and settled on the floor.
It's a time when the potato eggs are getting thicker, but you can't find anything strong.
The cold sea hit the inside of the green house under the strong cold below -10 degrees Celsius for more than a week.
[Choyangbong/Potato cultivation farmers: Because they are too small, they cannot be used because they have no product value.]
Only in Gimje, Buan, Jeollabuk-do and Gurye, Jeollanam-do, it has been tentatively counted that winter potato farms with 200 soccer fields have suffered cold
damage
.
Winter potatoes are a variety that cannot even be covered by accident insurance, so farmers are just frustrated.
[Chaoyangbong/Potato cultivation farmers: It would be nice if the government could provide any support, but I was just sighing.] In
Buyeo, Chungcheongnam-do, red peppers that ran froze and died.
When the harvest could not be expected, the peasants who were hurt in their stomachs plowed the pepper fields planted in seven green houses.
[Im Jang-hyuk/Red pepper cultivation farmer: These are all useless.
Pepper will rot quickly once you soften it.]
In succulent plant farms such as cactus, candles were lit on kerosene stoves, but they could not avoid cold damage.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Food has started to support cold weather recovery.
We have decided to support agricultural chemicals and seeding costs for alternative crops to affected farmers, and to postpone the repayment of farming funds and promote interest reduction.
(Video coverage: Kang Yun-gu)