Haenam-gun, 753 High-Income Farmers 'Most in the Province for 3 Consecutive Years'

Significant Growth Noted in Livestock and Processed Distribution Sectors

Haenam-gun in Jeollanam-do has the highest number of high-income farms earning over 100 million won, totaling 753 farms.

According to the county on the 9th, Haenam-gun has ranked first for three consecutive years in the Jeollanam-do high-income farm survey, with the number of farms increasing annually: 522 in 2018, 548 in 2019, 604 in 2020, 720 in 2021, and 753 in 2022.

Haenam-gun Office Building Exterior [Photo by Haenam-gun]

By product category, food crops such as rice lead with 339 farms, followed by livestock with 209 farms, vegetables with 112 farms, distribution and processing with 75 farms, and 18 farms in special crops, fruit trees, and other categories.

Among these, compared to last year, livestock farms increased by 20 and processing and distribution farms by 21, driving the growth of high-income farmers.

The increase in Hanwoo cattle farms and their expansion, as well as the rise in mixed farming including paddy fields, highlighted the growth in the livestock sector. The activation of processing and distribution farms through sales at Haenam Miso and local food direct stores is also analyzed as a factor leading to the increase in high-income farms.

Haenam-gun, with the largest farmland area nationwide and ranking first in eco-friendly certified agricultural products, is leading the industrialization of agriculture into a high-income sector by producing high-quality agricultural products based on a clean environment and strengthening distribution.

In the 8th term of the civilian administration, aiming for a "sustainable future rural area," the county is focusing administrative efforts by investing 29.5% of the total county budget this year into agriculture, forestry, marine, and fisheries sectors.

The county is playing a prominent role as a leading local government in scaling up agriculture, modernizing facilities to reduce management costs, ensuring stable production and market channels for high-quality agricultural and livestock products, expanding and diversifying eco-friendly agricultural product distribution networks, practicing eco-friendly livestock farming, and promoting mixed farming.

A county official stated, "Achieving first place in high-income farmers for three consecutive years is the result of steady support with a long-term perspective on future agriculture," adding, "We will continue to focus on creating wealthy rural areas by fostering high value-added future agriculture such as smart farms, promoting diversification by product centered on organic farming, and revitalizing various processing, distribution, and sales of agricultural and livestock products."