Yeonggwang-gun Wins 'Excellence Award' in Comprehensive Evaluation of Rural Development Projects

[Yeonggwang=Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Lee Jeonseong] Yeonggwang-gun, Jeollanam-do (Governor Kim Junsung) announced on the 16th that it won the 'Grand Prize' in the '2020 Rural Development Project Comprehensive Evaluation' hosted by the Rural Development Administration.

The Rural Development Administration conducts an annual year-end award ceremony by comprehensively evaluating 10 items such as government joint evaluation index performance and overall satisfaction with technology dissemination projects to select excellent local rural development institutions that contributed to the spread and activation of rural development projects targeting city and county agricultural technology centers.

The Agricultural Technology Center achieved excellent results evenly in various fields such as dissemination and expansion of new technologies, fostering young farmers and regionally specialized crops, promoting agricultural product processing projects, and operating agricultural machinery rental projects, earning the honor of the award.

This year, it achieved balanced results in various fields, including being selected as the nationwide No. 1 in operating agricultural machinery rental centers hosted by the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs and winning the Excellence Award in the comprehensive evaluation of return-to-farming and return-to-village tasks in Jeollanam-do.

Baek Yeongmok, Director of the Agricultural Technology Center, said, “This achievement is the result of all employees doing their best with one mind, and we will further enhance agricultural competitiveness by conducting field-centered guidance projects for the development of Yeonggwang agriculture.”

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