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The damage from the record cold wave hit last week continues.
Green house crops that are less affected by the cold are also affected by cold damage, causing farmers to plow their fields.
Reporter Lee Yong-sik covered the scene.
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is a winter potato cultivation complex in Gimje, Jeollabuk-do.
Potato stalks and leaves that should grow green in the green house have frozen and settled on the floor.
It's a time when the potato grains 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: It is too small to use because it is not worth the product.]
Only in Gimje, Buan, Jeollabuk-do and Gurye, Jeollanam-do, it has been tentatively counted that winter potato farms with 200 football fields suffered cold
damage
.
Winter potatoes are a variety that cannot even be covered by accident insurance, so farmers are just frustrated.
[Choyangbong/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 decided to support the cost of pesticides and the sowing cost of alternative crops to the affected farms, and to postpone the repayment of farming funds and promote interest reduction.