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- Marketing Policy Division
- This Division shall take charge of the following tasks.
- 1. Management
- a. The drawing up and execution of a budget for the Agricultural Products Distribution Bureau
- b. Directing and supervising agricultural products distribution-related (common spheres like research) associations
- c. Directing and supervising the Agricultural and Fishery Marketing Corporation
- d. Educating agricultural products distributors and producers (bodies) in the distribution of the products
- e. General affairs of the Agricultural Products Distribution Bureau and matters which are not covered by other departments in the bureau
- 2. Planning
- a. Establishment and comprehensive adjustment of middle- and long-term plans to improve the structure for the distribution of agricultural products
- b. Establishing major business plans for the Agricultural Products Distribution Bureau and examining and evaluating the plans
- c. Exterior cooperation for agricultural products distribution
- d. Operating the law on the distribution of agricultural and marine products and the stabilization of their prices
- e. The institution of a special law to support the execution of the Korea-Chile free trade agreement
- 3. Fund
- a. Establishing and adjusting plans to operate the fund to stabilize the prices of agricultural and marine products
- b. Executing and settling accounts for the fund to stabilize the prices of agricultural and marine products
- c. Operating and guiding the fund to stabilize the prices of agricultural and marine products and improving its system
- d. Managing the assets of the fund to stabilize the prices of agricultural and marine products
- 4. Production area distribution
- a. Supporting production area distribution facilities and guiding the operation of the facilities
- b. Fostering production area distribution-specialized organizations
- c. Fostering and guiding the organizations of producers of each item
- d. Fostering and guiding production area distributors of agricultural products
- 5. Logistics and new distribution
- a. Futures trading of agricultural products
- b. Supporting the purchase and joint use of instruments and equipment for agricultural products logistics
- c. Promoting and guiding the standardized shipment of agricultural products
- d. Normal standards of agricultural products
- 6. The wholesale market
- a. Constructing the agricultural and marine products wholesale market and a joint market and improving and arranging the facilities of the markets
- b. Guiding the trade stipulations and operation of the agricultural and marine products wholesale market
- c. Keeping order of trade in the agricultural and marine products wholesale market
- d. Activating the operation of the agricultural and marine products wholesale market
- e. Promoting the informatization of the agricultural and marine products wholesale market
- f. Putting in good order similar wholesale markets
- 7. Distribution information
- a. The construction of a digital distribution system
- b. Developing and spreading a system of useful technologies to manage agricultural products after their harvest
- c. Electronic commercial trade
- Consumer Information Food Safety Division
- This Division shall take charge of the following tasks.
- 1. The quality control for agricultural products
- a. Constructing the agricultural and marine products comprehensive distribution center and improving its facilities and guiding its operation
- b. The retail distribution of agricultural products
- c. The quality certification of agricultural products
- d. Directing and supervising the National Agricultural Products Quality Management Service
- e. General affairs of the Division
- 2. The demand and supply and the stabilization of the prices
- a. Understanding the trend in the prices of agricultural products
- b. Promoting the measures to stabilize prices
- c. Establishing and adjusting the measures to control the demand and supply of agricultural products
- 3. Consumers protection and a labelling system
- a. Supervising businesses related to the protection of consumers of agricultural products
- b. Improving the content of the labelling of agricultural products and foods
- c. Improving the content of the label of agricultural products and foods
- d. The direct trade of agricultural products
- 4. The businesses to protect consumers and store agricultural products
- a. The recall system of agricultural products
- b. Cooperation of farmers, consumers, and the government to secure the safety of agricultural products
- c. The formation of price indexes for agricultural products
- d. Guiding and evaluating the businesses to store agricultural products
- 5. Safety management
- a. The labelling of genetically modified agricultural products
- b. Good Agricultural Practices (GAP)
- c. The traceability system for agricultural products
- d. International food standards ensuring the safety of agricultural products and foods
- e. Improving the agricultural products labelling system
- 6. Safety systems
- a. Establishing comprehensive measures to ensure the safety of agricultural products and foods
- b. Operating the Agricultural Products Quality Control Act
- c. Monitoring the safety of agricultural products
- d. Setting up the maximum limits to harmful substances at the step of food production
- e. Conducting education and PR and guidance in relation to the safety of agricultural products
- Food Industry Division
- This Division shall take charge of the following tasks.
- 1. The development of foods
- a. The support for school meal services
- b. Fostering dining-out industries
- c. Designating master hands for traditional foods
- d. Korea Food Research Institute-related businesses
- e. Entrusting other organizations with the development and research on food technologies
- 2. The fostering and planning of food industries
- a. Fostering, supervising, and adjusting food industries
- b. Establishing plans to foster food industries
- c. The statistics of the fostering of food industries
- d. Operating the law to foster agricultural product processing industries
- e. Operating the council to foster and examine agricultural product processors
- 3. The standards and criteria of foods
- a. Certifying the quality of traditional foods and designating the items
- b. The Korean Standards for processed agricultural foods
- c. Codex standards for traditional foods
- d. The geographical labelling of agricultural products
- e. The establishing and working of other food standards
- 4. traditional foods
- a. The fostering of agricultural product processing factories and rural complexes where agricultural products are specially processed
- b. Fostering and recommending farmers' and producers' bodies to acquire a license to manufacture alcoholic drinks
- c. Affairs to related to the fostering of kimchi industries
- d. The import and export of processed foods
- 5. Sales promotion
- a. The sales promotion of agricultural products and foods
- b. The promotion of the application of good brands to agricultural products
- c. Supporting the development of packing designs and containers for agricultural products
- d. PR activities to increase the consumption of agricultural products
- 6. Export foundation
- a. The establishment and operation of the measures to promote long- and short-term exports
- b. The advancement into overseas markets of agricultural products through the participation in international expositions and the hosting of specially planned exhibitions
- c. The operation of a situation room to advertize and increase the export of agricultural products
- d. The generalization and analysis of export trends
- e. The projects to investigate into overseas market information
- f. The construction and spread of an information network for international trade
- 7. The promotion of export
- a. The construction of an export logistics system
- b. Supporting export logistics expenses
- c. Supervising the businesses related to export complexes
- d. Supporting the purchase and distribution of superior agricultural products
- e. The management and operation of export trust and insurance systems
- f. The support for the businesses of export-related bodies
- Vegetables and Special Crops Division
- This Division shall take charge of the following tasks.
- 1. General vegetables
- a. The management of the demand and supply of leafy and root vegetables
- b. Operating systems to control the demand and supply of vegetables and stabilize their prices
- c. Establishing foundation to produce vegetables
- d. Bean and folk vegetables-related businesses
- 2. Seasoning vegetables
- a. The management of the demand and supply of seasoning vegetables
- b. The enhancement of the production and competitiveness of seasoning vegetables
- c. Promoting the measures to stabilize the prices of seasoning vegetables
- d. Promoting the projects to purchase and store seasoning vegetables
- e. The processing, importing and exporting of seasoning vegetables
- 3. Greenhouse vegetables
- a. The fostering of greenhouse vegetable industries
- b. The production of greenhouse vegetables
- c. The import and export of vegetables
- d. The international cooperation for vegetables
- e. Operating the self-help monetary system
- 4. Management
- a. The management of greenhouse vegetables
- b. The stabilization of the demand and supply of fruits and vegetables
- c. Energy saving for greenhouse horticulture
- d. Disaster relief measures in the fields of horticulture and cash crops
- 5. Ginseng
- a. The production, processing and demand and supply of ginseng
- b. The fostering of ginseng industries
- c. The import and export and processing of ginseng products
- d. The operation of the ginseng industry law
- e. The quality management and distribution of ginseng products
- f. Leaf tobacco
- 6. Cash crops
- a. The demand and supply and import and export of oily crops
- b. The demand and supply and import and export of medicinal crops
- c. The management of the demand and supply of mushrooms
- d. The purchase and storage of cash crops
- Fruits and Flowers Division
- This Division shall take charge of the following tasks.
- 1. The fostering of fruits and flowers industries
- a. Establishing comprehensive measures for fruit trees and flowering plants industries
- b. The international cooperation for fruit trees and flowering plants industries
- c. Sericulture
- d. PR activities for fruit trees and flowering plants
- e. Other The general affairs and budget of the department
- 2. The demand and supply of fruits
- a. The production and distribution and import and export of fruits
- b. Promoting the contracted shipment of fruits
- c. Promoting the measures to control the demand and supply of fruits and stabilize their prices
- d. Supporting and managing the fostering of fruits producers' organizations and a self-help monetary system for them
- e. Promoting disasters relief measures for fruit trees
- f. Operating the distribution order system
- 3. The fund to execute the support for free trade agreements
- a. Establishing and adjusting plans to operate the fund
- b. Executing the fund and settling the accounts of the fund
- c. Guiding the operation of the fund and improving a relevant system
- d. Managing the assets of the fund
- e. Operating the committee to support the execution of free trade agreements and the administrative committee
- 4. The support for the fruit tree industry
- a. The support for high-quality production in the fruit tree sector
- b. The quality improvement including the supply of superior seedlings of fruit trees
- c. The establishment and operation of distribution facilities in the fruit tree sector
- d. Other The enhancement of the competitiveness in the fruit tree sector
- 5. The improvement of the structure of the fruit tree industry
- a. The compensation for the cessation of business in fruit tree sector
- b. The operation of the direct payment system to supplement the income in the fruit tree sector
- c. The development of large-scale orchards
- d. Other The improvement of the structure of the fruit tree industry
- 6. The flowering plants industry
- a. The seeds of flowering plants
- b. Promoting disaster relief measures for flowering plants
- c. The increase in the consumption of flowering plants
- d. The support for a joint market of flowering plants
- e. The exposition of flowering plants
- f. The fostering of farm households and production-exclusive complexes for flowering plants
- g. Managing and supporting the fostering of flowering plants producers' organizations and the self-help monetary system
- h. Other affairs related to the production, distribution and export of flowering plants
- Audit & Inspection Division
- The Division shall assist the auditing chief in connection with the following affairs.
- 1. Audit planning
- a. Plan and adjustment of auditing business
- b. The operation of self-auditing organizations
- c. Auditing the National Agricultural Cooperative Federation and its member organizations
- d. General affairs in the auditing chief's room
- 2. The prevention of corruption
- a. Establishing, promoting and supervising plans to intensify the discipline of public offices and prevent corruption
- b. Inspecting the discipline of affiliated organizations and bodies
- c. Headquarters auditing and daily auditing
- d. Investigating and treating petitions and irregularities including those presented by other ministries and agencies
- e. The registration and examination of the properties of public officials, reports on gifts and limits to employment
- 3. Audit 1
- a. Integrating the materials to be audited by the Board of Audit and Inspection and doing liaison businesses
- b. Supervising the work of the auditing information comprehensive system
- c. Auditing local governments, including the government joint auditing
- d. Dealing with the demands made by the Board of Audit and Inspection after its auditing
- e. Auditing the National Agricultural Products Quality Management Service and the National Seed Management Office
- 4. Audit 2
- a. Auditing the National Veterinary Research and Quarantine Service and the Agricultural training Institute
- b. Auditing the Korea Racing Association
- c. Auditing the Rural Development Administration and the Forestry Administration
- 5. Audit 3
- a. Auditing the National Plant Quarantine Service
- b. Auditing the Agricultural and Fishery Marketing Corporation
- c. Inspecting the Eulji Practice
- 6. Audit 4
- a. Auditing the corporations established in accordance with the civil law
- b. Dealing with what the minister and/or vice-minister has ordered concerning auditing, including the actual conditions of agricultural and forestry affairs
- c. Supervising and inspecting the actual conditions of civil petitions transmitted by the Office of the President and other civil petitions
- 7. Audit 5
- a. Auditing the Korea Agricultural and Rural Infrastructure Corporation
- b. The auditing of agricultural and forestry technology development projects
- c. The control of business trips
- d. Administrative auditing and the operation of the audit request and deliberation conference
