Nong-eochon Gong Jeonnam Headquarters Focuses on Creating Vibrant Rural Communities

Published 10 Apr.2023 10:36(KST)

The Jeonnam Regional Headquarters of the Korea Rural Community Corporation (Head: Jo Young-ho) is focusing on creating a young and vibrant rural community with functions as a workplace, living space, and resting place to promote sustainable management and expand new growth engines.

Main Gate of Korea Rural Community Corporation Jeonnam Regional Headquarters<br>[Photo by Korea Rural Community Corporation Jeonnam Headquarters]

Main Gate of Korea Rural Community Corporation Jeonnam Regional Headquarters
[Photo by Korea Rural Community Corporation Jeonnam Headquarters]

According to the Jeonnam Regional Headquarters on the 10th, this year’s management will focus on ▲expanding disaster prevention projects and stabilizing the farming environment through automated water management ▲implementing customized farmland support projects by management stage and age group ▲leading the advancement and diversification of smart agriculture.

In response to the normalization of droughts and floods, disaster prevention projects will also be expanded to enhance the public’s sense of safety.

Additionally, efforts will be made to expand the selection of new projects such as establishing proactive water supply measures, improving drainage, and expanding flood control capacity, and the automated water management project will continue to be promoted to spread digital-based water management processes.

Support will also be strengthened for farmers experiencing management difficulties due to debt and natural disasters, as well as young farmers starting their farming careers.

When young farmers purchase farmland, the support unit price will be increased compared to general farmers, and projects such as the ‘Pre-lease-Post-sale Project,’ which helps young farmers secure farmland without self-payment, and the ‘Reserved Farmland Lease-type Smart Farm Project,’ which installs smart farms on farmland owned by the corporation and leases them long-term to young farmers, will be promoted.

To advance and diversify smart agriculture, the plan is to implement smart agriculture based on advanced agricultural machinery and databases and successfully establish an unmanned automation pilot complex by October to spread the model to farms.

Along with this, the core facilities of the Goheung Smart Farm Innovation Valley and related projects will be completed within the year to create a future agriculture innovation hub, and the regionally specialized lease-type farm promoted in Sinan will focus on strengthening digital agriculture tailored to regional characteristics through the creation of an eco-friendly facility horticulture convergence complex and the promotion of new district selection.

Head Jo Young-ho said, “What we need to prepare during this period of transition is to minimize trial and error while achieving results,” and added, “Based on the technology and efforts accumulated by the corporation so far, we will continue to strive to transform rural communities into young and vibrant places.”