Jinju City's Premium 'Citizen Garden' Expanded and Renovated for New Operation

All Applicants Offered Units, Creating a Healing Space for Happiness and Vitality Amid Nature to Recover from COVID-19 Fatigue

Additional Luxury Community Garden Established and Operated
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[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Choi Soon-kyung] Jinju City announced on the 8th that it will renovate and operate the citizen garden plots.

The citizen garden plots are public gardens operated by the city, serving as a healing space within the urban environment to comfort the minds and bodies of citizens and employees of institutions relocated to the Innovation City, who have been exhausted by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Additionally, families can directly place the eco-friendly agricultural products they cultivate together on their dining tables, promoting health and providing a productive experience and leisure activity where family members can share empathy in the garden plots.

This year, the city created 438 citizen garden plots, more than double the planned 200 plots, and allocated them to citizens and families of employees of public institutions in the Innovation City.

To alleviate the sense of exclusion among households that could not receive garden plots and to respond to citizens' requests to revive the vitality dampened by COVID-19 and increase urban residents' interest in citizen garden plots, Mayor Cho Gyu-il ordered the preparation of a plan to allocate plots to all applicants, resulting in an additional 238 plots being created.

Furthermore, as demand for citizen garden plots increases annually, the city announced plans to discover and expand the operation of privately managed garden plots starting next year.

In addition, the city plans to utilize urban agriculture managers holding national professional certifications to provide technical dissemination and guidance to garden participants, and to link the agricultural theme park located at the Agricultural Technology Center with urban agriculture to offer various experiences to urban residents.

A city official stated, “We plan to operate the garden plots in accordance with the COVID-19 social distancing and quarantine guidelines at each stage, and we ask for the active cooperation of participants.”

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