Mokpo National Maritime University Accelerates Rural Support to Overcome COVID-19
[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Seo Young-seo] Mokpo National Maritime University (President Park Seong-hyun) recently announced on the 9th that it conducted rural volunteer activities for farmers facing manpower shortages such as a lack of foreign workers and a decrease in rural volunteers due to the prolonged COVID-19 pandemic, in accordance with the 'Social Contribution for Revitalizing Rural Volunteer Work' business agreement signed by the Gwangju-Jeonnam Regional University Presidents' Council (Chairman Park Seong-hyun), Jeollanam-do, and the Jeonnam Regional Headquarters of the National Agricultural Cooperative Federation.
This business agreement was promoted to directly support labor-short farms by meeting the volunteer demand of students from 21 universities in the Gwangju-Jeonnam region, with the attendance of Song Sang-rak, Vice Governor of Jeonnam Province, and Park Seo-hong, Head of the Jeonnam Regional Headquarters of the National Agricultural Cooperative Federation.
According to the signed agreement, each institution plans to establish an administrative support system and recruit university student participants through active promotion such as recognizing volunteer credits to support farms.
As the first implementation of the agreement, about 80 faculty and staff members of Mokpo National Maritime University visited a farm located in Cheonjang-ri, Haeje-myeon, Muan-gun on the 4th, where they volunteered in activities such as crop harvesting and cleaning. Kim San, the governor of Muan-gun, visited the volunteer site and expressed gratitude to the faculty and staff for their rural labor assistance activities.
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President Park Seong-hyun said, “This agreement and volunteer activity became an opportunity to jointly consider the rural labor shortage caused by the prolonged COVID-19 pandemic and to establish a cooperative system,” adding, “We will fulfill the duty of the local university to help farms going through difficult times due to COVID-19.”
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