Hapcheon-gun Agricultural and Food Department Achieves Success in Rural Agreement Public Contest Project Selection

Securing 30 Billion KRW in National Funds, High Expectations for Improving Residential Conditions and Boosting Economic Vitality

Hapcheon County Office building view

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Choi Soon-kyung] Hapcheon-gun, Gyeongnam Province, has been selected as a target area for the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs' '2022 Rural Agreement' public contest project.

Introduced newly in 2020, the 'Rural Agreement' is a system where the government and local governments collaborate to support necessary projects as a package to achieve the common goal of 'revitalizing rural living areas.'

Receiving up to 30 billion KRW in national funding from the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, the general rural agricultural and fishery village development projects, which were implemented at the village or regional level, are expanded to the living area unit and carried out as a five-year project from 2022 to 2026.

Hapcheon-gun established a rural spatial strategic plan and a rural living area revitalization plan, including expanding basic living services and establishing a 365 living area centered on the Hapcheon-Chogye living area, and fulfilled prerequisites such as forming a dedicated department and installing and operating an intermediate support organization, and was selected through a public contest in May.

Going forward, by the end of this year, the 'Rural Spatial Strategic Plan' and 'Rural Living Area Revitalization Plan' will be supplemented, and after approval from the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, the project details and budget will be finalized. The rural agreement will be signed in the first half of 2022 to proceed with the project.

Moon Jun-hee, mayor of Hapcheon-gun, said, "We are mobilizing all administrative power to secure the budget through the public contest project," and added, "We will carry out the project steadily to improve living conditions in the county and invigorate the economy."

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