Last year, the trade deficit of kimchi was $47.285 million. About 300 million yuan), a year-on-year increase of 1 1%, setting a new high since the customs conducted relevant statistics in 2000. At the same time, the weight gap between the import and export of Korean kimchi has also set a record. In 20 17, the import of Korean kimchi was ten times of the export (24,300 tons), and kimchi produced in China accounted for 99%.
According to the above data, it can be seen that the import scale of Korean kimchi is gradually higher than the export scale. According to the report released by the World Kimchi Institute last September, the proportion of imported kimchi is about 35%.
Under the situation that "imported kimchi" entered the Korean dining table in large numbers, the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Animal Husbandry and Food of Korea issued the Comprehensive Plan for Revitalizing the Kimchi Industry on June 5438+02, striving to increase the proportion of domestic kimchi by more than 5% compared with 20 16 years before 2022.
To this end, the Korean Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Animal Husbandry and Food has formulated six major strategies. First of all, the government will focus on the development of sauerkraut industry and improve its price competitiveness. It is planned to increase the current market scale of pickled cabbage from 654.38+08 billion won (about 654.38+00 billion yuan) to 250 billion US dollars (about 6543.8+0.56 trillion yuan) by 2022. The scale of related markets such as kimchi sauce will also increase to 350 billion won.
The Korean government will also improve the taste and quality of kimchi and adopt a system similar to beef grading to improve the competitiveness of kimchi. The government will also strengthen the supervision of kimchi producing areas to prevent illegal circulation of imported kimchi in the market. In addition, by increasing overseas publicity, promote the export of kimchi.