2023-06-07 10:59:13
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Recently, domestic salt prices have risen significantly.
Compared to two months ago, it is about 4,000 won more expensive.
As concerns over the discharge of contaminated water in Fukushima grew, the number of people hoarding salt increased.
Reporter Kim Yoon directly covered the scene to see what kind of impact it actually had.
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Salt production is in full swing at the Sun Salt Farm, which is spread over the tidal flats.
Produced salt is loaded onto a cart and stored on rails in a salt warehouse.
A few years ago, the price of a 20kg bag of domestic sea salt, which was only 2~3,000 won, has gradually increased and now jumped nearly 6 times.
The main reason is the production area and raw materials.
Since 2015, Shinan Salt Farm, the nation’s largest salt producer, has lost 620 hectares, and production has plummeted to half of last year’s level due to frequent rains in April and May, the peak season for salt production.
The problem is that the problem of discharge of contaminated water from Fukushima is likely to incite hoarding and further fuel price hikes.
This is because it experienced a price surge during the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011.
[2011년 4월, 뉴스투데이]
″This year, even three-year-old salt ran out within a month of the start of the nuclear power plant radiation fears in Japan.″
[박노환/소금유통업]
″I’m going around the country right now, in every salt field. And yet, I can’t buy salt right now.”
Because of this, there are concerns that the soon-scheduled release of contaminated water will have a similar effect.
[최완수/대한염업조합 감사]
″With the release of contaminated water from Fukushima, consumers are psychologically anxious and demand soars…″
The Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries said in response to this, that the skyrocketing price due to bay salt hoarding is not true.
In addition, as a result of examining about 10 salt farms nationwide since last April, no radioactivity was detected, adding that radiation tests will be greatly expanded in the future.
This is Kim Yoon from MBC News.
Video coverage: Cho Seong-taek (Mokpo)
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