Cheongsong-gun, Apply for 2025 Forestry and Forest Direct Payments Now!

Online Applications: March 1-31
In-Person Applications at Town and Township Offices: April 1-30

Cheongsong-gun, Gyeongbuk Province, will accept applications for the 2025 Forestry and Forest Public Interest Direct Payment from March 1 to April 30, 2025.

The forestry direct payment system is a program that provides direct payments to forestry workers engaged in silviculture, such as producing forest products like jujube, walnuts, and chestnuts, or planting and tending trees on eligible forest land, in order to enhance the public functions of forests and stabilize the income of forestry workers.

The eligible recipients are forestry workers registered as agricultural management entities for forest land from April 1, 2019, to September 30, 2022. For forest product production, applicants must have been engaged in forest product production for at least one year (60 days annually) and have an annual forest product sales amount of at least 1.2 million KRW, meeting certain qualifications.

For silviculture, applicants must have obtained forest management plan approval and been registered as agricultural management entities for forest land during the same period, engaged in silviculture for at least one year (60 days annually), and have a silviculture performance of at least 3 hectares over the past 10 years, meeting certain qualifications.

In particular, this year, to facilitate forestry workers’ applications, the application period for forestry direct payments has been advanced by one month and extended by one month.

Online applications can be submitted from March 1 to March 31 via the ‘Forestry-in Integrated Portal’.

In-person applications can be submitted from April 1 to April 30 by visiting the town or township office responsible for the location of the forest land and submitting the registration application form.

For more details, inquiries can be made at the Forest Resources Division, Forest Income Team of Cheongsong-gun, or at the Korea Forest Service Forestry Direct Payment Counseling Center.

Governor Yoon Kyung-hee said, “As the application period for forestry direct payments has been extended this year, I hope eligible applicants do not miss the opportunity to fully benefit from it,” and added, “We will continue to actively promote forest policies that satisfy forestry workers.”