Yeoju City Conducts Early-Maturing Rice Test Cultivation and Taste Evaluation

Finding High-Quality Yeoju Rice

Yeoju City, Gyeonggi Province (Mayor Lee Chung-woo) announced on the 15th that it held an early-maturing rice variety test cultivation and taste evaluation meeting on the 13th to select excellent early-maturing varieties adapted to the Yeoju region and to alleviate farmers' inconveniences caused by the changing early-maturing rice purchase varieties each year.

Yeoju City held a taste evaluation meeting for early-maturing rice varieties on the 13th to address the inconveniences faced by farmers due to changes in the purchased early-maturing varieties. Photo by Yeoju City

This evaluation was conducted as an early-maturing variety cultivation test, where three varieties developed by the National Institute of Crop Science under the Rural Development Administration (Seolbaek, Wolbaek, Saeodae No.1) and Hitomebore were blind-tasted by Yeoju Mayor, Yeoju City Council Chairman and council members, Yeoju Rice Research Association, agricultural organizations, and the NongHyup, followed by a preference survey.

Mayor Lee Chung-woo, who participated in the event, stated, “We will spare no support for evaluations and test cultivations to produce high-quality Yeoju rice.”

The varieties used in the early-maturing cultivation tests were directly managed by Yeoju City, including growth surveys and on-site evaluations by farmers.

Kim Young-shin, head of the Crop Research Team, said, “This rice taste evaluation meeting is an opportunity to understand the practical demands of farmers.” Jeon Chang-hyun, head of the Technology Extension Division, added, “Based on today’s results, we will design test cultivations and introduce early-maturing varieties adapted to the Yeoju region.”