Sacheon-si Conducts 2023 Farmland Usage Survey

Unauthorized Fallowing, Illegal Conversion and Leasing, Livestock Barn

Mushroom Cultivation Facility? Insect Rearing Facility Fraud, etc.

Sacheon City in Gyeongnam Province will conduct the "2023 Farmland Utilization Survey" from the 16th of this month to November 30th to establish order under the Farmland Act by blocking speculative ownership or use of farmland.

The farmland utilization survey is an investigation conducted once a year under the Farmland Act to verify facts related to ownership, transactions, use, or conversion of farmland.

The survey targets include farmland owned by agricultural corporations, foreigners and overseas Koreans with foreign nationality, farmland acquired within land transaction permission zones, farmland acquired after issuance of farmland acquisition qualification certificates within the last five years (2018?2022), farmland acquired by non-residents, and farmland acquired as shared ownership.

Sacheon City Hall.

The survey will verify whether farmland owners are actually engaged in agricultural management, detect unauthorized fallow land and illegal leases, and check compliance with farmland ownership requirements for agricultural corporations (at least one-third of executive officers must be farmers).

Additionally, it will closely investigate illegal farmland conversion, such as installing and operating solar power facilities on roofs of agricultural use facilities (livestock barns, mushroom cultivation houses, insect breeding houses, etc.) to evade farmland conversion permits.

If violations of the Farmland Act are found as a result of the farmland utilization survey, administrative actions such as imposing farmland disposal obligations, restoration orders after hearing procedures, and criminal charges will be taken.

Kwon Sang-hyun, Director of the Sacheon Agricultural Technology Center, said, "We will do our best to ensure that farmland is used for its original purpose of agricultural management by strengthening the investigation of acquisition, ownership, and use of farmland."

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