[Jeongeup=Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Kim Jaegil] Jeongeup City, Jeonbuk Province, recognizes the public value of agriculture, fisheries, and rural areas and aims to improve the quality of life for farmers and fishermen by providing a public interest allowance to them.
According to the city on the 2nd, the public interest allowance for farmers and fishermen is a project implemented to create a sustainable agricultural, fishery, and rural environment by preserving and enhancing the public functions of agriculture, fisheries, and rural areas.
The support targets are farmers and fishermen who have registered agricultural or fishery management entities before December 31, 2020, and have had an address in the province for more than two years.
Crop cultivators must cultivate more than 1,000㎡ of farmland in the province, and beekeepers must be registered as beekeepers in the city or county within the province by December 31 of last year, raising bees (at least 10 native bee colonies, 30 Western bee colonies, or 30 mixed colonies).
Also, fishery households with valid permits for aquaculture or fish seed production or inland water fishery reports under fishery-related laws are eligible.
However, those with non-agricultural income of 37 million KRW or more, those with records of fraudulent receipt of various subsidies in 2022, those with disciplinary records related to farmland, mountain areas, beekeeping industry, or fisheries violations, those who received administrative sanctions for illegal burning of agricultural by-products or waste farming materials, and those who live with eligible recipients but have separated households are excluded from eligibility.
Qualified farmers and fishermen can submit applications and required documents to their local eup/myeon offices or dong offices by April 28.
After the application deadline, the city will verify the eligibility of applicants, finalize the recipients, and plans to provide the allowance collectively in September in the form of ‘Jeongeup Love Gift Certificates.’
Mayor Lee Hak-su said, “The public interest allowance for farmers and fishermen is a project aimed at maintaining the public functions of agriculture and fisheries and securing the income of farming and fishing households. We will continue to do our best to ensure that the value of agriculture and fisheries is properly recognized and that farmers and fishermen can feel pride and fulfillment.”
Jeongeup=Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Kim Jaegil baekok@asiae.co.kr
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