Gwangyang-si Completes Design for Bokbunja New Forest Variety Cultivation Complex

Korea Forest Service National Forest Variety Management Center Completes Preparations for Next Year's Construction

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Lee Hyung-kwon] Gwangyang City announced that it has completed the detailed design for the Bokbunja Forest New Variety Cultivation Complex project at San147-1, Joryeong-ri, Bonggang-myeon.

The Forest New Variety Cultivation Complex project was selected last year in a nationwide competition by the Korea Forest Service. The project, led by the National Forest Variety Management Center under the Korea Forest Service, involves investing 2.5 billion KRW of national funds to introduce management buildings, work buildings, cultivation complexes, vinyl greenhouses, and harvest processing facilities on 5 hectares of forest land owned by the Korea Forest Service. Construction is scheduled to begin in the first half of next year and be completed by December of the same year.

To establish a cooperative production, processing, and distribution system based on the principles of public interest, locality, and non-profit, the ‘Gwangyang Haetsal Social Cooperative (Chairman Park Kwang-gi)’ was founded last October.

The social cooperative will operate the Bokbunja Forest New Variety Cultivation Complex and promote projects to create jobs and increase income in the local community.

Lee Tae-ok, Director of the Forest Income Division, said, “Many citizens showed great interest and support for the promotion of the Bokbunja Forest New Variety Cultivation Complex project,” adding, “We hope that mass production and distribution of the high value-added forest resource, the new variety (Bokbunja), will serve as a catalyst for increasing income in farming and mountain villages.”

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