Sancheong-gun Rural Workforce Brokerage Center, a Rainmaker for Resolving Labor Shortages

1189 Farms Brokered 4782 Cases... Great Response

The Rural Workforce Brokerage Center in Sancheong-gun, Gyeongnam, which opened in March this year, is attracting attention for playing a much-needed role in alleviating the rural labor shortage.

According to the county, the Rural Workforce Brokerage Center, which connects farms lacking labor during the busy farming season with job seekers free of charge, is receiving great response.

The Sancheong-gun Rural Workforce Brokerage Center was established on the second floor of the Nonghyup Bank Sancheong-gun branch in March this year after Sancheong-gun was selected last year for the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs' Rural Workforce Brokerage Center (rural type) public project.

Currently, two dedicated personnel are assigned, and a labor pool and farming work teams have been established to respond swiftly to Sancheong-gun’s rural labor shortage issues.

In particular, since its opening, the center has provided labor during peak farming seasons (April to June) and harvest seasons (August to November), achieving 4,782 labor brokerage cases for 1,189 farms as of the 10th.

Sancheong-gun expects brokerage performance to increase as the full-scale busy farming season for onion, garlic, and dried persimmon production arrives in November and December.

The Sancheong-gun Rural Workforce Brokerage Center not only offers free labor brokerage but also supports participants with training expenses, transportation costs, accommodation fees, and accident insurance.

Additionally, it is conducting diverse and proactive promotional activities to strengthen the labor pool and expand farming work teams.

On the 10th, the center participated in the ‘Jinju-Sancheong Job Fair’ to promote rural jobs in Sancheong-gun and recruit workers, making every effort to secure the labor shortage during the busy farming season.

County Governor Lee Seung-hwa said, “We expect the Sancheong-gun Rural Workforce Brokerage Center to greatly contribute to resolving labor supply difficulties and increasing farm income,” adding, “We will continue to provide unwavering support to establish stable agricultural production conditions, including expanding the introduction of foreign seasonal workers to solve the rural labor shortage problem.”

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