‘Strengthening Food Security’ … Yeongdeok-gun’s First Implementation of the ‘Strategic Crop Direct Payment System’

Support of 500,000 to 4,800,000 KRW per hectare Depending on Cultivation Type

Yeongdeok-gun, Gyeongbuk Province, will implement the ‘Strategic Crop Direct Payment System’ starting this year to strengthen food security by improving the food self-sufficiency rate and to stabilize rice supply and demand.

Yeongdeok County Office.

The Strategic Crop Direct Payment System is an expansion and reorganization of the existing paddy field utilization (double cropping) direct payment system, providing direct payments to farmers who cultivate strategic crops in paddy fields.

Strategic crops are defined as ▲crops with low food self-sufficiency rates that require production expansion ▲crops that can replace general (table rice) rice cultivation ▲crops that can enhance paddy field utilization through cropping systems such as double cropping. Representative strategic crops include food crops such as wheat, soybeans, barley, and forage crops.

The payment rates vary by cultivation type: ▲50 million KRW per hectare for single cropping of food crops like wheat and barley in winter ▲100 million KRW per hectare for single cropping of paddy soybeans in summer ▲430 million KRW per hectare for single cropping of forage crops in summer (only when rice was cultivated on the target farmland the previous year and the forage includes grains).

Additionally, an extra 100 million KRW per hectare will be paid for double cropping wheat or forage crops in winter and paddy soybeans in summer.

Kang Min-ho, Director of the Agriculture and Livestock Division, stated, “By implementing this Strategic Crop Direct Payment System, we will adjust the oversupplied rice production to stabilize rice supply and demand, and expand the production of crops such as soybeans and wheat, which have high import dependence due to insufficient production, thereby increasing the food self-sufficiency rate.”

Applications for Yeongdeok-gun’s Strategic Crop Direct Payment System can be submitted at the town and township offices in the farmland location until the 31st of next month.

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