Damyang-gun to Accept Applications for 'Basic Public Interest Direct Payment' Starting Next Month 1st

[Damyang=Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Kim Chunsu] Damyang County, Jeonnam announced on the 31st that it will accept applications for the ‘2021 Basic Public Interest Direct Payment’ at the township and town offices of farmland locations from May 1 to May 31.

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

Applicants must be registered as agricultural management entities in the agricultural management information system and must be farmers who have rightfully received direct payments at least once between 2016 and 2019 or meet the new eligibility requirements.

However, applicants whose comprehensive income outside of agriculture is 37 million KRW or more, or whose cultivated area is less than 1,000㎡, are excluded from the payment target.

The payment rate for the basic public interest direct payment is 1.2 million KRW per year per household member regardless of area if the small-scale direct payment conditions are met: cultivated area of 0.5ha or less, total farmland ownership within the household less than 1.55ha, continuous residence in rural areas for more than 3 years prior to the application year, and more than 3 years engaged in farming, among eight other conditions.

For area-based direct payments, the cultivated area is divided into three stages (2ha or less, 2ha to 6ha, over 6ha) and applied with a regressive unit price per section (1 million KRW to 2.05 million KRW/ha), with payment caps of 30ha for farmers and 50ha for agricultural corporations.

A county official stated, “To prevent the spread of COVID-19, we plan to accept applications for the basic public interest direct payment in a dispersed manner by village.” He added, “We hope applicants strictly comply with the farm requirements to avoid disadvantages such as reductions in direct payments.”

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