Goheung-gun Extends 50% Reduction Period for Agricultural Machinery Rental Fees

Extended until December 31 this year, 85 types 720 units

Alleviating farmers' management cost burden, providing farming convenience, etc.

Goheung-gun, Jeollanam-do (Governor Gong Young-min) announced that it will extend the rental fee reduction benefits of the agricultural machinery rental business office until December 31, 2024, to minimize the management cost burden on farmers struggling with rising agricultural material prices and falling agricultural product prices.

The Goheung-gun Agricultural Machinery Rental Business Office currently operates three locations: the main office (Pungyang-myeon), the northern branch (Gwayeok-myeon), and the eastern branch (Podu-myeon). It owns 720 rental agricultural machines of 85 types, including tractors, agricultural excavators, and branch shredders, and a 50% discount benefit is available for all models.

[Photo by Goheung-gun]

The discount benefit, implemented from April 2020 to December 2023, was used by 2,400 farming households to rent about 19,000 agricultural machines, receiving a rental fee reduction benefit of 442 million KRW.

An official from the county agricultural technology center said, “Goheung-gun shares the burden of farmers facing difficulties and aims to contribute to the revitalization of the Goheung rural economy.”

Goheung = Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Shim Jeong-woo hss79@asiae.co.kr

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