2024-07-31 04:47:49
The Minister of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs held a meeting on the Gagahoho Rural Mobile Market Project in Yeonggwang. On the 29th, the ‘Gagahoho Rural Mobile Market Meeting’ was held at the Myoryang-myeon Welfare Center in Yeonggwang-gun under the leadership of Minister of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs Song Mei-ryeong to discuss ways to resolve food deserts in rural areas and to discover alternative models.
On this day, Minister of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs Song Mee-ryeong, Yeonggwang County Acting Governor Kim Jeong-seop, Jeollanam-do Vice Governor, Director of the Agriculture, Livestock and Food Bureau, city and county directors, Myoryang-myeon heads, National Agricultural Cooperative Federation, regional agricultural cooperatives, Yeomin Dongrak Community, and others attended the meeting. They shared the current status of operations of Yeonggwang-gun Yeomin Dongrak’s mobile bakery and Pocheon Sohol Agricultural Cooperative Happy Market, collected opinions from the field, and discussed ways to resolve food deserts in rural villages and discovered alternative models.
The ‘Gagahoho Rural Mobile Market’ promoted by the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs is a mobile lifestyle convenience service that visits villages with trucks loaded with daily necessities to sell them to the underprivileged who have difficulty shopping for daily groceries due to the disappearance of retail stores in rural villages, population decline, and aging. This is being done through collaboration between the government, local governments, and the private sector, and the ‘Mobile Market Operation Guidelines’ will be produced by reflecting the opinions presented at the meeting and will be distributed to local governments soon. In addition, the goal is to operate the first vehicle in the mobile market pilot area in December.
In addition, we decided to review methods of supporting shuttle buses that allow rural residents to travel directly to retail stores, and providing lifestyle services such as welfare, culture, and care in addition to the delivery of daily necessities.
Yeonggwang-gun Acting County Magistrate Kim Jeong-seop stated, “This on-site meeting was a meaningful opportunity to discuss the discovery and pilot operation of various models to support rural residents’ purchase of daily necessities, and I hope that the ‘Gagahoho Rural Mobile Market’ project will serve as a stepping stone to solving the food desert problem for underprivileged rural communities, and our county will also review promoting the project in line with this.”
Queen Choi Ha Na reporter photo Yeonggwang-gun
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2024-07-31 04:47:49