[Korean Farmers and Fishermen Newspaper, Reporter Go Seong-jin] In the first government audit of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries under the Jae-myung government, both ruling and opposition parties voiced the urgent need for improvements such as increasing the government's share of funding for the rural basic income pilot program and expanding the number of participating local governments. The National Assembly's Agriculture, Forestry, Fisheries and Food Maritime Affairs Committee (chaired by Eo Gi-gu) began the government audit of seven agencies, including the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, on the 14th, entering the 2025 government audit schedule planned until the 30th of this month. In this government audit, key government tasks in the agricultural sector, such as rural basic income, fostering young farmers, agricultural safety and disaster, joint farming models, and agricultural product distribution structure reform, were scrutinized for progress plans and thorough implementation was urged.