Rally for grain bill

Rally for grain bill

Park Hong-keun (C, 1st row), floor leader of the main opposition Democratic Party, speaks as the party's lawmakers and representatives from farming groups stage a rally in front of the National Assembly in Seoul on April 3, 2023, to call on the government to approve a contentious bill requiring government purchase of surplus rice. The bill aimed at revising the Grain Management Act, which the opposition-controlled National Assembly has passed, requires the government to buy excess rice if production exceeds estimated demand by 3-5 percent, or if prices fall by 5-8 percent or more compared with the previous year. (Yonhap)

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