Imsil-gun Accelerates Efforts to Foster Young Farmers

[Imsil=Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Park Nosik] Imsil-gun, Jeonbuk is accelerating the cultivation of young startup farmers who lack farming infrastructure and experience.

The county announced on the 11th that it will additionally recruit tenants for the young startup farmers' management practice rental farm until the 17th.

This recruitment operates rental farms to provide young people who lack farming infrastructure and experience with opportunities to gain experience in facility agriculture operation and technology as a foundation for farming startups, and to minimize the possibility of failure after starting a business.

Earlier, in 2018, the county was selected for a Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs public project and invested 2.9 billion KRW to build a built-in smart greenhouse (6,816㎡) in Jeongwol-ri, Imsil-eup.

The smart greenhouse allows the cultivation of strawberries, tomatoes, cucumbers, etc., and the farming area is divided into four zones within the greenhouse.

Applicants must be young farmers aged 18 or older and under 40, with less than three years of farming experience, no farming infrastructure under their own name, and must be registered residents and actual residents of the county as of the application deadline.

The rental period is three years, and young farmers who lease the facilities must directly carry out all farming processes including farming plans, cultivation, and sales under their own responsibility.

Applications must include a rental application form, farming plan, and attached documents, and must be submitted in person with an ID card at the Agriculture and Livestock Department.

In addition, the county is actively promoting the Young Startup Farmers' Farming Settlement Support Project.

It implements various support policies to promote the entry of young and talented individuals into the agricultural sector and to improve the agricultural labor structure by alleviating the aging trend of farm owners.

To support the farming settlement of young startup farmers, the county selects young startup farmers aged 18 or older and under 40 with less than three years of independent management annually, providing up to 1 million KRW per month for three years as farming settlement support funds, farming capital (up to 300 million KRW), and farming technology education.

County Governor Shim Min said, “This policy helps young people who have difficulties due to lack of farming infrastructure and experience to start a business,” and added, “We will make further efforts to nurture young startup farmers to overcome rural aging.”

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