Gwangju City to Conduct Comprehensive Agricultural Register Maintenance by Year-End

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Park Seon-gang] Gwangju Metropolitan City announced on the 16th that it will conduct a comprehensive reorganization of 46,436 farmland parcels within its jurisdiction.

The Agricultural Register was introduced in 1973 to grasp the ownership and usage status of farmland and to utilize it as administrative data for farmland. It is prepared separately for farmers or agricultural corporations cultivating or growing crops or perennial plants on farmland of 1,000㎡ or more, and is managed ex officio by the township, town, or neighborhood office at the farmer's address.

The government plans to carry out a comprehensive reorganization of a total of 1.97 million cases of ownership and lease information in the Agricultural Register over two years (2020-2021).

Accordingly, Gwangju City reorganized about 18,500 Agricultural Register cases last year in the first phase, focusing on farmland where the farmer's address and the farmland location administrative district differ, as well as Agricultural Register cases of elderly farmers aged 80 or older.

This year, issues raised such as unclear responsibility between local governments due to out-of-jurisdiction farmland reorganization, complicated administrative procedures, and reorganization standards and methods will be improved by adopting a "reorganization by parcel located within the jurisdiction" method, which is expected to enhance the efficiency of Agricultural Register reorganization.

Gwangju City plans to support the hiring and operating expenses of assistants for efficient work promotion at district offices and neighborhood administrative welfare centers, and, with the cooperation of the Korea Rural Community Corporation Jeonnam Regional Headquarters, will also provide training for staff and assistants.

The Agricultural Register reorganization will proceed in the following order: ▲ verification of ownership and lease information through agricultural management entity information, direct payment compliance inspection data, lease contracts, etc. ▲ requesting explanations from reorganization targets for inconsistent information with other policy databases ▲ guiding farmland owners with discrepancies in cultivation facts between the Agricultural Register and other policy databases to the Farmland Bank (lease system) ▲ special management of farmland owners with evidence of illegal leasing, linked with farmland usage status surveys.

Kim Hyun-jung, head of the Life Agriculture Division of the city, said, “The comprehensive reorganization of the Agricultural Register will update the public register of farmland ownership and leasing, and when linked with farmland usage status surveys, it is expected to contribute to preventing fraudulent claims in agricultural and forestry projects such as the Public Direct Payment System.”

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