Jeju Island begins ‘1/2 thinning’ for high-quality tangerine production

Jeju Island has started a 1/2 thinning project for citrus orchards this year to increase high-quality citrus production and farm income. Jeju Special Self-Governing Province announced that it will establish guidelines for the citrus orchard thinning project in 2025 and focus its administrative power until April. The province has been promoting a 1/2 thinning project for 994ha of citrus for 2,530 farms for the past five years from 2020 to last year, and plans to promote the project on a scale of 100ha this year. Farmers who wish to thin can submit a thinning application and citrus orchard ownership certificate to the National Agricultural Cooperative Federation or the town/village resident center where the citrus orchard is located by the 28th. The support target is open-field citrus orchards (including mature citrus), and only 1/2, 1/3, and 1/4 thinning by row is recognized, and the subsidy is 2.3 million won per ha. The province plans to operate a thinning operation ...