Wando-gun Holds Service Report Meeting for Rural New Vitality Plus Project

Plan for Creating a '1 Island 1 Color Color-Food Based Healing Health Rural Area'

Wando County held a service report meeting for the 2021 Rural New Vitality Plus Project competition organized by the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs. (Photo by Wando County)

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Choi Kyung-pil] Wando-gun, Jeollanam-do announced on the 22nd that it held a service report meeting on the 21st for the ‘2021 Rural New Vitality Plus Project’ contest hosted by the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, attended by 25 representatives of local farmers and others.

The Rural New Vitality Plus Project is a project aimed at establishing a foundation for autonomous regional growth by promoting the advancement of specialized industries and job creation using various regional assets and private organizations already established, such as local industries and the 6th industry.

The report meeting was prepared to hear diverse voices from those engaged in agriculture and livestock farming, the project promotion committee, and action group stakeholders.

The action group, as the main executor of the project, consists of private organizations such as the Wando Our Food Research Association, Wando Agricultural and Marine Products Cooperative, local specialty crop groups, the Agricultural Management Association, and the Return-to-Farming and Return-to-Fishing Council.

Wando-gun planned the project aiming to create a ‘1 Island 1 Color Color Food-based Healing Health Rural Area’ by commercializing island-specific color food products, developing island-specific cultural content, and linking with the county’s key project, marine healing, tailored to the geographical characteristics formed in the island region.

In particular, the plan is to converge and integrate the marine healing industry, a health promotion activity using Wando’s natural agricultural and specialty products such as yuzu, loquat, citrus, hwangchil, colored barley, abalone, flatfish grown in pristine nature, and various marine resources, with tourist attractions such as the Slow City Cheongsando and Bogildo Yunsendo historic sites.

Through this, they aim to promote tourism based on healing health, revitalize the rural economy, and enhance rural capabilities.

The attendees listened to the contents of the preliminary plan for the contest and presented various opinions, and the county plans to review and reflect the presented opinions when applying for the project.

Shin Woo-cheol, Wando County Governor, said, “The Rural New Vitality Plus Project will be a project that can breathe new vitality into rural areas and promote balanced development within the region,” adding, “We will make great efforts to be selected in the contest.”

If selected for the Rural New Vitality Plus Project, a budget of 7 billion won will be invested over four years starting next year to promote various projects for the autonomy and growth of the local rural area.

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