Yeoncheon-gun Conducts Additional Demand Survey for Support Project of Gyeongchuk Circular Agriculture Complex Development

Yeoncheon-gun, Gyeonggi Province (Governor Kim Deok-hyun) announced on the 23rd that it will conduct an additional demand survey until the 27th to promote the Livestock-Crop Circular Agriculture Complex Support Project.

Yeoncheon County Office building. Provided by Yeoncheon County.

The Livestock-Crop Circular Agriculture Complex Support Project is an agricultural method in Yeoncheon-gun that uses livestock manure (cow manure) to grow crops on some farmlands and uses crop by-products such as rice straw as feed for livestock.

It is gaining attention as a sustainable and environmentally friendly circular farming method because it systematically matures livestock manure, which can be a pollutant, and uses it as agricultural compost.

The project target is livestock farmers registered and permitted for livestock farming who can self-apply and till livestock manure compost (cow manure) on their own rice cultivation fields from the previous year's harvest until before the current year's rice planting.

The support rate for 2024 was 20 KRW per square meter, and although it may be adjusted depending on the budget situation in 2025, it is planned to support up to 37.7 KRW per square meter.

Livestock farmers who wish to participate in the project can bring their soil test results and visit the Industrial Team at the administrative welfare center of the jurisdictional eup/myeon for paddy fields by the 27th to apply for the demand survey.

Manure generated from livestock farms is strictly managed and made into liquid fertilizer that meets the standards of the Livestock Manure Act, then spread on farmland. It contains various nutrients necessary for farming such as nitrogen and calcium, has less odor than general livestock manure, and has less impact on the surrounding environment.

It is expected to greatly help the coexistence of livestock and crop farmers as it allows farmers who feel burdened by the rising cost of agricultural fertilizers to use high-quality fertilizer without incurring significant costs.

A Yeoncheon-gun official said, “Farmers have relied more on chemical fertilizer farming than on livestock-crop circular agriculture using compost, but there is not much difference. We will continue to strive to expand livestock-crop circular agriculture that can reuse livestock manure, an environmental pollutant, in the era of carbon neutrality.”