Boseong-gun Provides Emergency Support of 1.1 Billion KRW for Beekeeping Installation Costs to Farms Affected by Honeybee Damage

Support for Recovery Funds up to 20 Million Won per Affected Farm Household

[Boseong=Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Lee Hyung-kwon] Boseong-gun, Jeollanam-do announced on the 14th that it will provide 550 million won from contingency funds as emergency recovery funds to beekeeping farms affected by mass bee deaths (disappearances).

Since January, 8,700 bee colonies have died en masse at 124 beekeeping farms in Boseong-gun due to an unknown cause, resulting in damages of approximately 2.2 billion won.

Across Jeollanam-do, about 100,000 bee colonies have died at around 1,360 beekeeping farms, causing damages estimated at 25 billion won.

Boseong-gun has secured 1.1 billion won (including self-payment) for restocking costs covering 4,500 colonies (about 50%) out of the total 8,700 affected colonies, and plans to support one colony for every two affected colonies at a limit of 20 million won per farm. The support unit price per colony is 250,000 won.

Boseong-gun received damage reports from farms through an administrative survey last month, and plans to finalize the farms eligible for restocking support in April, then proceed with the bee restocking support project until the end of December.

If selected as a project beneficiary, farms must purchase bees that have tested negative for bee-related diseases from disease inspection institutions such as the Jeollanam-do Animal Hygiene Testing Laboratory.

A Boseong-gun official said, “We hope this restocking support will greatly help the management recovery of beekeeping farms that have been struggling due to poor honey harvests over the past three years.”

Meanwhile, Boseong-gun has 223 beekeeping farms with 22,484 colonies, the largest number of colonies in Jeollanam-do.

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