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After Children's Day, Mother's Day and Teacher's Day are now approaching, when carnation flowers are most visited. However, due to the difficult economy, the number of people looking for flowers continues to decrease, increasing the difficulties for farmers.

Reporter Hong Seung-yeon contributed to this report.

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Red carnations that are about to
be shipped are filled in the facility.

In celebration of Family Month in May, I carefully raised it for nine months.

The farm started harvesting carnations last month.

By now, the harvest should be virtually complete, but there's still so much left.

When the carnations were sold and there was a deficit, the farmers gave up the harvest.

[Song Hak-min/Carnation farmer: It's a situation where you suffer to the point of dying for one year, let alone labor costs, and it becomes negative. Because the flowers don't sell. It brings tears to my eyes.]

In fact, production costs such as fuel and electricity bills have risen by about 5% from last year, but the price of domestic carnations in the recent wholesale market has fallen by more than 1% since this time last year.



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The economic downturn has had a significant impact on the decline in demand for flowers, and to make matters worse, foreign flowers from China and Colombia, which are relatively cheap, have also intensified.

[Flower Market Trader: (What's the price difference?) It's a bit much. (Carnation) domestic production is 1,2 won, import is 7,500 won.]

[Flower market vendor: Those who come to buy can't sell expensive things because they want cheap things.]

Farmers who have endured the corona period complain that it is no longer possible to hold on.

[Song Hak-min/Carnation farmer: We produced our flowers and farmed them with pride so that the people of our country could use them for Mother's Day....]

The practice of selling low-cost imported flowers as domestic products is also on the rise.

The National Agricultural Products Quality Control Institute has decided to carry out a special crackdown on more than 5,1 flower markets, flower shops, and other places.

(Video Interview: Jeong Kyung-moon, Video Editing: Chae Cheol-ho, Screen Credit: National Agricultural Products Quality Control Institute)