Jeonnam Province Selects 7 Cities and Counties for This Year's Return-to-Farming and Fishing Village Evaluation... Hampyeong County Honored with 'Grand Prize'

[Muan=Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters, Reporter Yoon Jamin] Jeonnam Province announced on the 24th that it conducted a comprehensive evaluation of returning farmers and fishermen villages this year and selected seven outstanding cities and counties within the province.

As a result of the evaluation, the grand prize this year was awarded to Hampyeong-gun. The excellence awards went to Jangseong and Damyang-gun, and the merit awards were given to Goheung, Haenam, and Yeonggwang-gun respectively. The prize money is 3 million KRW for the grand prize, 2 million KRW each for the excellence awards, and 1 million KRW each for the merit awards.

Hampyeong-gun, which won the grand prize, received excellent scores across all evaluation categories including attracting returning farmers and fishermen, self-education, integration with local residents, and the "Try Living First in Jeonnam" project.

In particular, it achieved remarkable results in the urban resident attraction support project and securing budgets for self-initiated projects.

Jangseong and Damyang-gun, selected as excellence awardees, received high evaluations in attracting returning farmers and fishermen, various education sessions, and briefing performance.

The comprehensive evaluation of returning farmers and fishermen villages is conducted annually targeting 21 cities and counties within the province to measure the performance of the year's projects and encourage outstanding cities and counties.

The evaluation items consist of five categories and twelve indicators, including the promotion of returning farmers and fishermen projects, population attraction performance, willingness to promote city/county tasks, publicity, and education/event performance. The performance of each city and county's task promotion is aggregated and evaluated.

Yoon Yeonhwa, Jeonnam Province Population and Youth Policy Officer, said, "While encouraging outstanding cities and counties, we will inject new momentum into policies supporting the attraction of returning farmers and fishermen. Through systematic support for returning and relocating farmers, we will implement various policies to help prospective returning farmers settle stably in Jeonnam."

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