Guntur: The team of South Korea delegates visited Asia’s biggest chilli yard at Guntur on Friday and announced starting of importing of chillies from chilli yard Guntur by South Korea. They further invited a team of chilli growers and traders to visit South Korea to know the trading system of their country. Chilli Yard chairman M Subba Rao informed that chilli is exported to 15 countries from Guntur Chilli Yard and explained varieties in red chillies to the Korean team. He said that Guntur is the ideal place to start chili allied products industries and stated that their government is promoting exporters who indulged in red chilli exports.
Consul general of republic of South Korea for south India Kim Hyung Tae said that he first time saw lot of varieties in the red chilli and stated that quality of Guntur chilli is very great and tasty. He congratulated Guntur chilli growers for cultivating international quality red chillies. He said that South Korea is ready to assist the farmers by providing agriculture technology including micro irrigation technology which can be used for cultivation with less water resources.
Mr Tae invited Guntur chilli farmers and traders to visit South Korea to know the chilli business and trading system. Honorary consul of republic of Korea to Telangana State Mr Chukkapalli Suresh has explained about the procurement and marketing of red chillies and about the Guntur chilli yard which is the biggest chilli yard of Asian continent. Chilli exporters association representative Arun Kumar, chilli yard secretary N Srinivas Rao and others participated in the programme.
