People who work day and night to distribute fresh agricultural products A gathering place for agricultural products harvested from each production area. This is an agricultural product logistics center where dozens of tons of agricultural products are processed and delivered every day. This building, which handles hundreds of thousands of agricultural products, has an area of ​​approximately 58,000㎡. The logistics center, which is eight times the size of a soccer field, is filled with agricultural products that are absolutely essential to our dining table. Recently, as the number of single-person households has increased, the number of people looking for convenient vegetables has increased. Convenient vegetables that are cleanly prepared so that consumers do not have to prepare them separately after purchasing them! In order to meet the flood of orders, workers peel and trim 4-5 tons of onions all day long, struggling with the spicy smell. As darkness deepens into the night, hundreds of trucks come in like a tail chasing its tail. Hundreds of thousands of agricultural products harvested during the day are coming in. Maintaining freshness is the most important thing for agricultural products! Workers complete distribution work by branch without a moment to sleep and then begin fierce delivery. People who struggle so that consumers can receive agricultural products the next morning. Meanwhile, in the lotus root cultivation area in Dong-gu, Daegu Metropolitan City, the lotus root harvesting work is in full swing. A field without a single shade. It is not easy to harvest lotus roots in the mud. After bending down hundreds of times a day to pull out lotus roots, chronic back pain has taken hold. From harvesting to processing, the farmers’ sweat has brought about the story of those who work day and night to distribute the best agricultural products. An agricultural product logistics center located in Anseong-si, Gyeonggi-do. This is where the fresh agricultural products grown with the sweat of farmers are processed and delivered so that they can reach the consumers’ tables. The processed agricultural products that you see in large discount stores pass through their hands here. It is not easy to process a huge amount of agricultural products, reaching hundreds of thousands a day. They peel potatoes and onions, wash them, and slice them so that the consumers can cook them right away. The workers who stand and work in the same position for nine hours a day become as hard as stone as time goes by. Meanwhile, trucks loaded with agricultural products harvested from all over the country arrive one after another at night. Many people are busy to maintain the freshness of the newly arrived agricultural products. They must undergo strict quality inspections to ensure that the agricultural products are not spoiled, and then distribute them to each store line. Transporting and distributing a huge amount of agricultural products requires staying up all night. People who are struggling to ensure that consumers receive fresh agricultural products the next morning. Let’s listen to the stories of the people at the agricultural product logistics center who are working hard from dawn to morning. Dong-gu, Daegu Metropolitan City, the largest lotus root production area in the country. This area is the optimal place for lotus roots to grow due to its warm climate and organic soil. In the early morning, workers are busy harvesting lotus roots in the vast wetlands. Lotus roots grow in the mud with their underground stems, spreading out multiple stems like spider webs. Because of this, they have to dig up the soil all day long, like looking for jewels in the mud, to harvest the lotus roots. In particular, harvesting lotus roots is such a difficult task that even young people are amazed. This is because they have to work while bending their backs 90 degrees in the mud, where it is difficult to even stand properly. In addition, after removing the soil with a fork to prevent the lotus root from being damaged, the lotus root must be carefully dug out by hand. The calluses on the workers' hands are scars of glory. Even if they harvest lotus root in the mud all day, they only get about 200kg. Freshly harvested lotus root is washed, cleaned, vacuum-packed, and sent to large discount stores. Until fresh agricultural products reach our tables! Let's follow their difficult daily lives. #Extreme job #Agricultural product logistics center 24 hours #Cleaned convenient vegetables #Daegu Metropolitan City #Agricultural product collection center #Lotus root cultivation area #Delivery work #Anseong City, Gyeonggi Province #Agricultural product processing work #Onion processing work #Lotus root harvesting #Extreme site #Agricultural product distribution