<기사제목>Forest Service to Accept Applications for 'Forestry Direct Payment' Starting July

Provided by Korea Forest Service

[Asia Economy (Daejeon) Reporter Jeong Il-woong] The Korea Forest Service announced on the 31st that it will begin accepting applications for the "2022 Forestry and Forest Public Direct Payment (hereafter Forestry Direct Payment)" starting in July.

The Forestry Direct Payment is introduced and paid from this year with the purpose of enhancing the public functions of forestry and forests and compensating for the low income of forestry workers.

The core of the system is to pay direct payments annually to forestry workers who meet the qualifications set forth in the Forestry Direct Payment Act.

The target recipients are forest owners registered as agricultural management entities, and to receive the Forestry Direct Payment, registration must be completed by the end of next month. Registration of forestry management entities is a system to register information on actual management in forest areas and can be done through the local Korea Forest Service office that has jurisdiction over the resident registration address.

However, if one receives the small-scale farm direct payment under the Basic Agricultural Public Direct Payment, they will be excluded from receiving the direct payment for forest product production under the Forestry Direct Payment in the following year, so caution is needed when applying for agricultural direct payments.

The Korea Forest Service initially planned to accept applications for the Forestry Direct Payment starting next month for forest areas registered as forestry management entities by the end of this month. However, to allow more forestry workers to benefit, the registration deadline for forestry management entities has been extended by one month to the end of next month.

Accordingly, applications for the Forestry Direct Payment will be accepted from July at the town, township, and neighborhood offices located in the forest areas. The Korea Forest Service plans to finalize and announce detailed information regarding this year's Forestry Direct Payment applications within next month.

Lee Gyu-myeong, head of the Emergency Response Team for the Forestry Direct Payment System at the Korea Forest Service, said, "We are pleased to be able to pay the Forestry Direct Payment to forestry workers for the first time this year," and added, "The Korea Forest Service will continue to establish the Forestry Direct Payment System in the field to provide practical support to forestry workers."

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