Jangseong-gun to Accept Applications for 'Basic Public Direct Payment System' Starting Next Month on the 1st

[Jangseong=Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Jo Hangyu] Jangseong-gun, Jeollanam-do (Governor Yoo Doo-seok) announced on the 29th that it will accept applications for the ‘Basic Public Interest Direct Payment System’ at the administrative welfare centers of the towns and townships where the farmland is located from next month 1st until May 31st.

The payment targets are farmers and agricultural corporations registered in the agricultural management entity information, and support is provided to ▲ those who have received rice, field, or disadvantaged condition direct payments at least once between 2016 and 2019 ▲ successor or full-time farmers ▲ new farmers who have cultivated 0.1 hectares or more for at least one year out of the three years immediately before applying for direct payments.

The eligible farmland is farmland that received direct payments at least once between 2017 and 2019.

However, those excluded from payment targets include farmers whose comprehensive income outside agriculture exceeds 37 million KRW annually, those with farmland area used for agriculture less than 0.1 hectares, farmers whose applied direct payment area decreased compared to the previous year without justifiable reason, and farms that have not fully repaid recovery funds due to farmland disposal orders, unauthorized occupation of farmland, or fraudulent receipt.

The small-scale farmer direct payment amount is 1.2 million KRW per year, and all eight conditions must be met, including that the eligible farmland area is 0.5 hectares or less and the total comprehensive income outside agriculture of all household members is less than 45 million KRW.

If the small-scale farmer direct payment requirements are not met, applicants can apply for area-based direct payments, which are calculated as the sum of payment unit prices for each section of the total eligible farmland area.

When applying, the actual cultivated area must be declared.

If non-cultivated areas such as gravesites, roads, cold storage facilities, building sites, parking lots, gardens, etc. are included, those areas will be excluded from the eligible area, and 10% of the total direct payment amount will be reduced.

The county plans to start payments to farms from November after registration procedures including on-site investigations by the Agricultural Products Quality Management Service.

A county official said, “We will strive to promote awareness among residents to ensure that all farms eligible for public interest direct payments receive support without omission.”

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