Gimcheon City Sports Industry Division, City Hall Business Team (Badminton, Women’s Basketball Team) sweat hard to find onion farms

[뉴스메타=박영우 기자] 46 members of the Gimcheon City Sports Industry Department and City Hall Business Team (badminton, women’s basketball team) visited the onion farm in Gyoji, Jirye-myeon, where the farmhouse was suffering from a shortage of rural manpower and rising labor costs on the 8th at the onion harvest season in earnest. went out to help.

This time to help rural workers, players and leaders of the unemployment team are working to alleviate the shortage of manpower in the local rural areas to help farmers who are having a hard time finding work due to the delay in entry of foreign workers due to the prolonged Corona 19 and the aging of the rural population. He participated in helping and shed a lot of sweat in harvesting onions.

The farmer said, “These days, there is a shortage of workers and labor costs are rising, so I didn’t even think of harvesting onions at the right time, but I received such a great help, and I am very grateful to the players representing Gimcheon City for their help.”

Kim Jong-hyeon, head of the sports industry department, said, “It is a busy and difficult time for everyone, but it was a precious time that could be of some help to local farmers who are experiencing double hardship due to a shortage of workers and rising labor costs. We will continue to do our best to be of practical help to farmers in the future.”

On this day, Choi Han-dong, president of the Gyeongbuk Badminton Association, and Kim Dong-yeol, president of the Gyeongbuk Basketball Association, visited the helping site to encourage players and staff, and contributed to the onion harvest.