Sancheong-gun, Namsan and Jintae Villages Selected as Excellent Villages for Public Interest Direct Payment System

Increased Competitiveness of Village Communities and Resident Satisfaction Praised

Sword Bean Grown in Namsan Village, Sancheong-eup, Sancheong-gun

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Choi Soon-kyung] Sancheong-gun, Gyeongnam announced on the 18th that Namsan Village in Sancheong-eup and Jintae Village in Sinan-myeon were selected as excellent villages in the group category of the ‘2020 Gyeongnam Public Interest Direct Payment Support Project’.

This project has been promoted by Gyeongnam Province since 2019 to preserve the environment and landscape of agriculture and rural areas, and to practice sustainable eco-friendly organic farming. The villages selected as excellent villages receive an incentive project of 4 million KRW each (100% provincial funding).

Namsan Village in Sancheong-eup was awarded in high recognition of its contribution to regional coexistence and the improvement of the village community by cultivating sword beans suitable for the herbal medicine specialty area using idle farmland.

Jintae Village in Sinan-myeon received high praise for increasing residents’ residential satisfaction through reorganizing the access road linked to Sin-gye Seowon, a cultural asset of Gyeongnam Province, promoting a village mural project, and maintaining the Sin-gye Seowon rest area.

A county official said, “This project is a small-scale long-cherished project achieved through residents’ participation and cooperation, with high resident satisfaction, and is a public interest project for improving the agricultural and rural environment and maintaining the community. We will strive to ensure that more villages can benefit in the future.”

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