South Korea to scrap rice import caps, farmers stage protest
date:Jul 21, 2014
with local grain.

Around 30 farmers gathered in front of a government complex in Seoul to protest against the move, with an official from left-wing farmers' group the Korean Peasants League saying farmers should have been consulted more thoroughly.

The government has held a series of discussions with the public on plans for its rice policy and some farmers have accepted that change was inevitable, instead focusing on the exact level of tariffs.

We consider the switch to the tariff scheme for
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