Sancheong-gun Selected as 'Excellent County' in the 10th Gyeongnam Eco-friendly Ecological Agriculture Awards

Fostering 610 Eco-Friendly Crop Farms and 33 Livestock Farms
Producing Various Products Including Organic Rice, Organic Hanwoo, and Fermented Sauces

Locust Festival in Chahwang-myeon, Sancheong-gun - Locust Catching (Photo by Sancheong-gun)

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Choi Soon-kyung] Sancheong-gun, Gyeongnam Province, announced on the 15th that it has been selected as an "Excellent County" in the "10th Gyeongnam Province Eco-friendly Ecological Agriculture Awards" and will receive a prize money of 30 million won.

This evaluation combined scores from about 10 items, including eco-friendly certification area, year-on-year growth rate, eco-friendly certification rate of subsidized project complexes, and soil revitalization promotion performance, selecting award-winning cities and counties in order of high scores.

The county was highly evaluated for recognizing the necessity of eco-friendly ecological farming early on and actively encouraging and expanding it.

Since 2007, it has been implementing the wide-area eco-friendly agricultural complex project in Chahwang-myeon, the organic farming valley project in Danseong-myeon in 2008, and has been carrying out the eco-friendly agriculture infrastructure construction project annually to date.

As a result, it has achieved outcomes such as fostering self-reliant eco-friendly organizations, linking eco-friendly farming and livestock, establishing infrastructure for eco-friendly natural circulation farming, self-purchasing pesticide-free rice, and opening direct transactions with distribution companies.

A county official stated, "Our county is putting about 45% of the county's own budget in the agricultural sector this year into fostering eco-friendly agriculture to produce food that consumers can eat with peace of mind," and added, "We will continue to do our best to foster eco-friendly ecological agriculture where local farmers and consumers can coexist and prosper."

Currently, in the Sancheong area, 610 farms (767 hectares) producing agricultural products and 33 farms (1,196 tons) producing livestock products affiliated with the Sancheong-gun Eco-friendly Association are participating in eco-friendly ecological agriculture.

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