Farmers plow their fields, saying, “Come up with measures to plummet cabbage prices.”

As cabbage prices plummeted ahead of the harvest, farmers plowed their fields, urging the government to make public purchases and take measures to compensate for losses.

On the 5th, the Chungcheongbuk-do Federation of the National Federation of Farmers' Associations held a press conference in a cabbage field in Miwon-myeon, Sangdang-gu, Cheongju, to protest against plowing the field to call for measures to plummet cabbage prices.

On this day, farmers destroyed about 2,000 square meters of cabbage fields with tractors.

The reason they plowed their fields was because the price of cabbage fell significantly ahead of harvest.

According to the Korea Agro-Fisheries and Food Trade Corporation (aT), the wholesale price of 10 kg of cabbage was 4,296 won on this day, down 42.2% from the same day last year.

They complained, "Although the prices of various agricultural materials, such as the price of rice and plastic, were soaring by the day, we sold cabbage to earn living expenses and farmed hard in anticipation of the day when we could repay the credit. However, when the harvest season came, the price of cabbage plummeted, and we were in a crisis where we could not even cover the minimum production costs even if we sold them."

He continued, "Despite the fact that the more we farm, the more debt we have, the government's only measure is to promote kimchi through discount events," and pointed out, "The agricultural product price stabilization system that the government will implement starting next year only includes garlic and onions, and even this has a budget of only 9.1 billion won."

At the same time, he emphasized, “Unlike other local governments, North Chungcheong Province does not even have an ordinance guaranteeing the minimum production cost of agricultural and livestock products,” and added, “When agricultural product prices plummet, the burden is borne entirely by farmers.”

Farmers urged, "The government should immediately prepare emergency supply and demand stabilization measures to address the plummeting prices of kimchi vegetables, including cabbage, and implement public purchasing," and "Chungbuk Province and Cheongju City should also enact ordinances guaranteeing the minimum production cost of agricultural and livestock products and prepare measures to guarantee farmers' right to survive."