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The changing eating habits of Koreans are heavily impacting the structure of the agricultural market. The consumption of grains or farming products including rice, the main crop in the country, has steadily decreased. Contrarily, meat consumption has increased greatly, and imports of meat have doubled during the last five years. Similarly, the meat market and the aquaculture product markets are growing overall.The population involved in agriculture, forestry, and fishing has been shrinking steadily for years as the Korean economy shifted towards manufacturing and technology, producing automobiles, semiconductors, petroleum products, and so on. Most of the over one million agricultural households were working in the farming sector. The aging of the current agricultural population and the work’s lack of popularity among younger generations is directly affecting the industry. Almost half of all farmers are more than 65 years old, whereas in other industries only around 15 percent of workers were over 65 years old.
