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- Consumer
- Recently, we have seen rapid changes in the environment surrounding agriculture and rural communities of Korea. At home, increased consumer awareness for food safety and health, also referred to as "well-being," has brought about diversified consumer demands, forcing those other than high quality, safe agricultural products out of the market. Adding to these drastic changes are the continuous drop in rural population and accelerated trend of rural aging, where social demands to narrow widening urban-rural income and welfare gaps are heightening. In the near future, most of the rural areas will be transformed into amenities, as early retirement and 5 day workweek system become a common practice.
- As for food crops as a whole, consumption is declining. It doesn??t mean that food consumption per capita is going down but means that livestock and poultry products, fruits, fresh vegetables, fishery products replace food crop consumption. The national food consumption itself is increasing year by year.
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- Annual food Crop consumption per capita
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Annual food Crop consumption per capita Year Total Rice Barley Wheat Soybeans Corn Potato Others 1970 2,194 1,364 37.3 26.1 5.3 1.1 10.2 3.0 1980 1,951 1,324 13.8 29.4 8.0 3.1 6.3 2.1 1990 1,670 1,196 1.6 29.8 8.3 2.7 3.3 1.7 1995 1,065 1,066 1.5 33.9 9.0 3.3 3.0 3.3 2000 1,533 936 1.6 35.9 8.5 5.9 4.3 3.5 2001 1,455 889 1.7 34.4 8.2 6.3 2.5 3.5 2002 1,442 870 1.5 34.5 8.7 5.7 3.4 3.4 2003 1,421 832 1.5 34.2 8.5 6.9 3.5 4.3
