Hamyang-gun Selected as Excellent County in Forest Resources Sector in Gyeongnam Province Evaluation This Year

Commendation for Outstanding Institutions in Forest Management and Encouragement in Afforestation

Gyeongnam Hamyang County Office.

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Choi Soon-kyung] Hamyang-gun, Gyeongnam Province, announced on the 12th that it was selected as an excellent county in the forest tending sector and an encouraging county in the afforestation sector in the 2022 Forest Resources Field (Afforestation and Forest Tending) evaluation conducted by Gyeongnam Province.

According to the county, in the Gyeongnam Province city and county evaluation conducted to share best practices in the forest resources field (afforestation and forest tending) and improve project quality, it was selected as an excellent county in the forest tending sector and an encouraging county in the afforestation sector, receiving the governor’s institutional commendation and prize money, while those meritorious in business promotion receive certificates of commendation.

Hamyang-gun carried out afforestation projects on 213 hectares and forest tending on 1,340 hectares this year. In this Gyeongnam Province evaluation, it greatly contributed to ecology, landscape preservation, and forest disaster prevention by maintaining groups or forest belts according to eco-friendly logging operation guidelines for large-scale afforestation sites.

Also, when implementing the public interest forest tending project, the county divided core and general zones according to the concentration of forest management, enhancing the effectiveness of space use and landscape improvement around residential areas, achieving excellent results in the evaluation due to these accomplishments.

Hamyang-gun has been recognized as building a successful model nationwide in the forest resources field, having been selected in 2019 as the first local government nationwide for the pilot project of public-private cooperative forest management conducted by the Korea Forest Service.

Yoo Soo-sang, Director of the Forest and Greenery Division, said, “Our county has a forest area ratio of 76%, and we will continuously expand afforestation and forest tending projects utilizing forests to foster economic forests and create fine dust blocking forests, thereby increasing forest owners’ income and further expanding the public functions of forests.”

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