Jangseong-gun Receives Praise for Providing Healthy Food through 'Agricultural Food Voucher Pilot Project'

[Jangseong=Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters, Reporter Jo Hangyu] Jangseong County in Jeonnam is receiving positive feedback from local residents by promoting the ‘Agricultural Food Voucher Pilot Project,’ which provides healthy food to low-income residents.

According to the county on the 13th, this project supports electronic cards that can be used to purchase food for households with less than 50% of the median income (basic livelihood recipients, near-poverty class). The cards can be used to buy domestic vegetables and fruits, white milk, eggs, meat, grains, and honey.

The county, selected for the first time this year in the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs’ pilot project contest, began implementing the project last month.

The total project scale is 682 million KRW over seven months, with support funds ranging from 40,000 to 100,000 KRW per household per month, and the amount varies depending on the number of household members.

Although it has been just over a month since the project started, residents’ response is already very positive.

In particular, the ‘package delivery service’ is popular.

The county creates packages consisting of seasonal agricultural products and meat in cooperation with local food contracted farms, delivering them to residents with mobility difficulties. Last month alone, packages were delivered to a total of 440 households.

A county official said, “We are directly delivering packages, abundantly composed of fresh and safe Jangseong agricultural products, to transportation-vulnerable residents and the elderly,” adding, “We expect this to effectively resolve nutritional imbalances among low-income residents.”

Jangseong=Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters, Reporter Jo Hangyu chg6001@asiae.co.kr

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