Vice Governor Oh Hu-seok Inspects Snow Damage Recovery at Livestock Farms in Hwaseong City

Active Response Needed for Climate Crisis
Encouragement to Act First and Report Later When Necessary

On the 16th, Oh Hu-seok, Deputy Governor for Administrative Affairs of Gyeonggi Province, visited the Disaster Situation Room in Hwaseong City to inspect the snow damage status and recovery progress of livestock farms in the Hwaseong area. Previously, Deputy Governor Oh had visited Yeoju on the 3rd, Icheon on the 8th, Pyeongtaek on the 11th, and Yongin on the 13th to check the damage sites and response situations.

Oh Hu-seok, Deputy Governor for Administrative Affairs of Gyeonggi Province, visited the Disaster Situation Room in Hwaseong City on the 16th to inspect the heavy snow damage status and recovery progress of livestock farms in the Hwaseong area. Photo by Gyeonggi Province

During this inspection, the focus was on ▲snow damage status ▲emergency measures ▲recovery plans for major damaged facilities ▲additional preventive measures.

Deputy Governor Oh Hu-seok stated, “The heavy wet snow caused by climate change was difficult to predict, resulting in significant damage. It is necessary to actively prepare countermeasures to respond to such climate crises in the future.”

He continued, “In particular, the damage to livestock facilities is severe this time, and the collapse of agricultural infrastructure greatly affects the public’s food consumption. Therefore, to ensure public safety, it is essential to actively utilize the ‘action first, report later’ approach when necessary to promptly restore the damage.”

Meanwhile, Gyeonggi Province announced that the recent heavy snowfall caused damage worth a total of 223.6 billion KRW in the livestock sector, including 2,700 livestock barns and 650,000 animals. Accordingly, as an emergency measure, the province urgently allocated and executed 3.2 billion KRW from the first emergency recovery reserve fund on the 6th, and plans to execute about 1.8 billion KRW from the second reserve fund around the 18th to make every effort for the swift recovery of affected farms.

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