Core Value of Growing Rural Women, ‘Outstanding Leadership!’

Gyeongbuk Agricultural Research & Extension Services Strengthens Life Improvement Members' Capabilities... Cultivating Key Leaders in Local Rural Communities

Gyeongbuk Agricultural Research and Extension Services will conduct core leadership training for the Life Improvement Association.

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Dongguk Lee] The Gyeongbuk Agricultural Technology Institute is conducting core leader training for about 30 executives of the Korea Life Improvement Gyeongsangbuk-do Federation and city and county chairpersons at the Agricultural Hall over four sessions every Thursday from March 31 to the 21st of this month.

In the challenging rural conditions of aging and population decline, the rapidly changing agricultural environment has increased the role and proportion of women farmers, making this a time when delicate and inclusive female leadership is more necessary than ever.

Due to the spread and persistence of infectious diseases, women farmers are taking a leading role not only in their households but also in farm management, and their internal and external activities to improve the rights and interests of rural women are gradually increasing.

This training focuses on cultivating the mindset and image-making skills related to speech and demeanor to strengthen the capabilities of life improvement members as rural women and foster them as core leaders in local rural areas.

Additionally, it cultivates abilities as professional managers by covering tax laws that farmers should know such as farmland management and inheritance, farm promotion using SNS, and response methods to fires and safety accidents.

To practice carbon neutrality, which has recently become a domestic and international issue, the program plans to have the Life Improvement Association lead environmental protection and carbon neutrality activities through eco-friendly loofah cultivation and the use of natural loofahs, as well as activate the public functions of agriculture utilizing rural resources.

Shin Yongseup, Director of the Gyeongbuk Agricultural Technology Institute, said, “The Life Improvement Association contributed to improving the quality of rural life by leading the Saemaul Undong movement in the past,” and urged, “Please take the lead in rural revitalization as proactive female leaders pioneering the new paradigm of the Fourth Industrial Revolution era.”

The Korea Life Improvement Gyeongsangbuk-do Federation is a representative rural women’s learning organization with about 12,000 members in 303 local chapters, contributing to scientific farming, practical life skills, and the enhancement of women farmers’ rights and interests.