Cheongsong County Agricultural Technology Center Achieves Excellence Award at Agricultural Disaster Response Competition

In this era of climate crisis, Cheongsong County's unique and swift response capabilities to minimize agricultural damage have gained nationwide recognition.

The Cheongsong County Agricultural Technology Center received the Excellence Award at the "2025 Best Practices Competition for Pest and Agricultural Disaster Response," hosted by the Rural Development Administration.

Cheongsong County Agricultural Technology Center Wins Excellence Award at Agricultural Disaster Response Competition. Photo by Cheongsong County

This competition was organized to discover outstanding examples of pest and agricultural disaster response among rural development agencies across the country and to promote the dissemination of these achievements through awards.

The Cheongsong County Agricultural Technology Center received high marks for its various initiatives aimed at "achieving abundant harvests by overcoming agricultural disasters and pests," including: providing technical support to prevent fruit tree frost damage in response to climate change; operating an on-site technical support team for summer agricultural disaster prevention; running a monitoring and control team for fire blight in fruit trees and supplying preventive pesticides in advance; and offering detailed monitoring and pesticide support for sudden pest outbreaks.

In particular, projects launched this March to support farmers struggling with farming activities due to large-scale wildfires-such as the apple fruit stabilization project in wildfire-affected areas and the operation of a farming support team for wildfire-affected farmers-drew attention and led to the center winning the Excellence Award in the institutional category.

County Governor Yoon Kyunghee stated, "As the risks of agricultural disasters and crop pest damage increase due to climate change, we will do our utmost to proactively respond, protect local farmers from damage, and establish a sustainable agricultural environment."

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