Sancheong-gun Promotes On-site Training for New Farmers

Recruiting Mentors and Mentees Until the 9th of Next Month

Sancheong-gun, Gyeongnam Province, will start on the 12th a practical training program for new farmers and returning farmers to support their stable settlement.

This training is designed to support the successful settlement of new farmers who have moved to rural areas through mentor-mentee relationships by crop type. The training will be conducted over five months at leading farms of the crops that the returning farmers wish to cultivate, providing step-by-step practical education on farming techniques and quality control, agricultural management and marketing, and entrepreneurship.

A view of the Sancheong-gun Agricultural Technology Center.

Additionally, if returning farmers undergo training for 8 hours a day over 20 days, a total of 160 hours of training per month will be recognized, and a monthly training fee of 800,000 KRW will be provided to the trainees, while leading farms will receive 400,000 KRW.

Eligible returning farmers are new farmers under the age of 40 or those who have moved to rural areas within the last five years and have been registered as agricultural business operators for less than five years. Leading farms must be managed by agricultural entrepreneurs with more than five years of farming experience and have the scale and experience to educate returning and migrating farmers.

The support budget is a total of 60 million KRW for 10 teams, and applications can be submitted to the local town or township office by April 9. For more details, inquiries can be made to the Agricultural Promotion Division of the Sancheong-gun Agricultural Technology Center or the local town or township office.

A Sancheong-gun official stated, “Through this project, returning farmers will directly acquire on-site skills from leading farms, contributing to the successful settlement of returning and migrating farmers,” and added, “We will continue to strive and support the influx of more returning and migrating populations.”

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