Gochang-gun Invests 15.5 Billion KRW in 36 Horticulture and Specialty Crop Projects

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Kim Jaegil] Gochang-gun, Jeonbuk announced on the 10th that it will accept applications for horticultural special crop subsidy projects until the 17th to establish a stable production base for agricultural products.

This subsidy project plans to invest a total of 15.5 billion KRW in 36 projects in the horticultural special crop field, including regionally specialized vinyl greenhouses, pepper rain shelters, energy utilization efficiency projects, material support for horticultural crop production complexes, small and medium-sized cold storage for agricultural products, greenhouse hot air heating support, crop disaster insurance subscription, youth hope smart farm support projects, and open-field vegetable smart farms.

The Gochang-gun area has a vinyl greenhouse cultivation area of up to 1,000 hectares for strawberries, tomatoes, and others.

Accordingly, the county significantly increased the renovation project budget for improving the agricultural work environment of vinyl greenhouses (from 300 million KRW last year to 1 billion KRW this year) and reduced the burden on farmers.

In addition, pre-education is being conducted to prevent farmers who cannot apply from occurring, and related notices have been posted on the Gochang-gun website.

A Gochang-gun official said, “We will make every effort to promote so that the relevant farmers can be well informed and apply,” and added, “We hope that this year, through various support projects, farm income will increase and that Gochang-gun, the agricultural life food capital, will become the foundation for agricultural development.”

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