Assemblyman Shin Jeong-hoon: "Support for Crop Disaster Management Expenses Needed"

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Yoon Jamin] Assemblyman Shin Jeong-hoon (Democratic Party of Korea·Jeonnam Naju-Hwasun) has argued that management cost support is necessary for crop natural disasters.

On the 5th, Assemblyman Shin stated at a forum held under the theme "Practical measures are needed for crop natural disasters," “The Agricultural and Fishery Disaster Countermeasures Act related to the recent consecutive agricultural disasters should be revised from restoration cost support to management cost support to make it more realistic.”

Assemblyman Shin pointed out, “Our country's agricultural disaster countermeasures calculate crop damage rates based on damage rates at the farm household level, but this is not actual damage support; it remains as relief support such as livelihood assistance and postponement of repayment of farming funds, so urgent institutional improvement is needed.”

At the forum, he proposed revising the Agricultural and Fishery Disaster Countermeasures Act to allow management cost support for agricultural disasters that support seedling and seed costs, and to establish standards for management cost support based on standard management costs and damage rates by crop.

He also pledged to promote legislative initiatives to newly establish provisions for management cost support for agricultural disasters under the Framework Act on the Management of Disasters and Safety to back this up.

Assemblyman Shin added, “I will take the lead in preparing practical improvement measures for the agricultural disaster system to compensate farmers for damages from recurring agricultural disasters every year and to stabilize farm management.”

Meanwhile, the forum was hosted by Assemblymen Shin Jeong-hoon, Seo Sam-seok, So Byung-chul, and Lim E-ja, along with the National Peasants' Federation, and organized by Korea Agricultural Policy Newspaper, with Professor Emeritus Yoon Seok-won of Chung-Ang University serving as the chair. Panelists included Roh Bong-ju, Executive Director of the Naju Pear Cold Damage Emergency Countermeasures Committee; Kim Mi-bok, Research Fellow at the Korea Rural Economic Institute; Park Ha-da-seum, Head of Agricultural Insurance Development Team at NongHyup Property & Casualty Insurance; and Lee Moo-jin, Policy Director of the National Peasants' Federation.

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