Pocheon City Promotes Adjustment System for Rice Cultivation Area

Pocheon City in Gyeonggi Province is promoting a plan to reduce the rice cultivation area to stabilize rice prices and increase farmers' income.

Notice on the Implementation of Rice Cultivation Area Adjustment System. Provided by Pocheon City

Pocheon City (Mayor Baek Young-hyun) announced on the 9th that it will implement the rice cultivation area adjustment system in accordance with the policy of the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs. The reduction target allocated to Pocheon City by the Ministry for 2025 is 333 hectares.

Farmers who reduce their cultivation area will receive practical benefits such as preferential allocation of public stockpiled rice purchase quantities, activation of high-quality rice distribution, and preferential treatment for applicants from the relevant city or county when applying for rice purchase funds at the Rice Processing Complex (RPC).

Farmers and local governments that fail to achieve the reduction target will face restrictions on support for rice-related policies, including reductions in public stockpiling volumes and evaluations for selection as social overhead capital (SOC) project sites.

A Pocheon City official said, “To encourage farmers' participation in the rice cultivation area adjustment system, various incentives and policies to promote alternative crops will be implemented,” and added, “We ask for the active participation of farmers.”

Meanwhile, the rice cultivation area adjustment system, which will be implemented starting this year, plans to be promoted through various methods such as participation in strategic crop direct payments, conversion to eco-friendly certified rice, fallowing and planting of green manure crops, and self-reduction project incentive policies.

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