Damyang-gun Selected as 'Outstanding Returnee to Farming and Fishing Villages' This Year

Lee Byung-woo, Vice President of the Damyang-gun Return-to-Farming and Return-to-Village Association.

[Damyang=Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Kim Yuk-bong] On the 28th, Jeonnam Damyang-gun (Governor Choi Hyung-sik) announced that Lee Byung-woo, Vice Chairman of the Damyang-gun Return-to-Farming and Return-to-Village Association, was selected as an ‘Excellent Return-to-Farming and Return-to-Rural Resident of Jeonnam Province 2020.’

The Excellent Return-to-Farming and Return-to-Rural Resident evaluation selects six people in the province by assessing activities in five areas?resident integration, entrepreneurial efforts, community connectivity, development potential, and exemplary reasons?through an external evaluation panel.

Vice Chairman Lee Byung-woo, who has been active as the vice chairman of the Damyang Return-to-Farming and Return-to-Village Association since 2018, returned to farming in Geumseong-myeon in 2015 and has been operating ‘Jukrim Farm,’ cultivating Songhwa mushrooms and raising flower beetles as a sixth-year returnee farmer, leading communication between residents and returnee farmers.

He also participated in various return-to-farming and return-to-village expos to attract urban residents and pioneered sales markets for products of returnee farmers. Through active exchanges among members by learning farming techniques, he contributed to increasing the settlement rate of return-to-farming and return-to-village residents.

A county official said, “Despite being busy, he actively participated in village events, acquired and shared new information for association members, and devoted himself to helping them settle stably, which led to this good result.”

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