Gimhae City Lays Foundation for Nation's Only Healing Agriculture Special Zone... Secures 'National Gimhae Healing Agriculture Expansion Center'

A bird's-eye view of the 'National Gimhae Healing Agriculture Expansion Center' in Gimhae-si, Gyeongnam. [Image source=Gimhae-si]

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters, Reporter Lee Sang-hyun] Gimhae City, Gyeongnam Province announced on the 1st that it has been finally selected to host the 'National Healing Agriculture Expansion Center' and will promote the creation of new growth engines in agriculture and rural areas, as well as the research, development, and industrialization of healing agriculture.

Healing agriculture is an industry that utilizes various agricultural and rural resources to restore, maintain, and improve the health of the public, thereby creating social and economic added value.

The Expansion Center will be built on a site of 16,769㎡ in the Bonsan-ri area of Jinyeong-eup, with a total project cost of 29.9 billion KRW invested by 2024.

It will be used as a complex cultural facility featuring exhibition and experience facilities such as an ecological agriculture hall, healing garden, ecological experience hall, and activity practice rooms, as well as operating a healing agriculture certification system, startup support, and agricultural education programs.

The city plans to develop the Expansion Center as the core of a nationwide unique healing agriculture special zone by linking it with an eco-friendly agricultural complex, ecological cultural park, the citizen cultural experience exhibition hall opening in 2022, the rural theme park scheduled for completion in 2023, Hwapocheon Wetland Conservation Management Center, and the biomedical medical device small-scale special zone, combining agricultural, ecological, educational, and biomedical resources.

Mayor Heo Seong-gon said, "Our city is an international Slow City where rural and urban areas, nature and people coexist, making it the optimal place for the expansion of healing agriculture," and added, "We will revitalize the rural economy by fostering the healing agricultural industry centered on the Expansion Center."

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