The birthplace of future agricultural leading youth start-ups..."Jeonnam Changnong Town."

[Anchor]
Young farmers looking for opportunities in rural areas are breathing a new wind in rural areas that are losing vitality due to population outflow and aging.

Young farmers are gathering in Jeonnam Youth Changnong Town, which provides education and funding for local young farmers to start their own businesses.

I'm reporter Oh Sun-yeol.

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It is a factory that makes more than 20 types of health functional foods such as pills and powder using mushrooms.

It mainly supplies to pharmaceutical companies and hospitals, and the daily production volume alone is 3 tons.

The company founded three years ago by a young farmer easily exceeded 2 billion won in sales this year.

In the process of starting a business, the support of 'Jeonnam Youth Changnong Town' was very helpful.

[Seungjoo Kim / CEO of health functional food manufacturer: You can think that you have received some funding and counseling on all businesses. In the next five years, we will become a company that achieves 25 billion in sales....]

Recently, while developing tissue regeneration products using Dongchung Hacho, general companies have also invested in research projects.

[Hwang Heon-soo / Chairman of Jeonnam Venture Forum: We decided to invest in seeds first, believing that it will play a significant role as a treatment related to direct burn treatment. We will continue to invest in No. 2 and No. 3 in the future.

Jeonnam Youth Changnong Town, which opened for the first time in the country three years ago, is helping young farmers start their own businesses.

Sales of young start-ups increased more than seven-fold to 72 billion won through education, equipment rental, and funding.

[Kim Haeng-ran / Jeonnam Agricultural Research & Extension Services Director: We will make various support and efforts to further expand the role of 'Changnong Town' so that agriculture can play a big role as a future industry.]

The Jeollanam-do Council also shared the difficulties of young farmers and started to come up with realistic support policies.

[Kim Moon-soo / Chairman of the Agricultural and Fishery Committee of the Jeollanam-do Council: To come up with measures on what and how to do for young people's founding, to listen to young people's opinions and reflect them in the policies of Jeollanam-do....]

The Jeonnam Youth Changnong Town, which fosters start-up companies linked to agriculture, is a great help to young farmers pioneering the future of new agriculture.

This is YTN Osunyeol.