South Korea: Eco-friendly chestnut cultivation complex in Buyeo and direct payment for eco-forestry, big boost to farmers

(Buyeo = Yonhap News) Reporter Ui-ju = Amid the controversy surrounding the introduction of the forestry direct payment system, the 'direct payment for forestry farms and ecological forestry', the first nationwide implementation in Buyeo-gun, Chungcheongnam-do, is attracting attention. According to Buyeo-gun on the 29th, in connection with the existing eco-friendly forest product production complex project (mowing project), it has been paying 3.5 billion won for armaments and direct payment for ecological forestry from 2019. As a mowing support project, 300,000 won per 1ha of cultivated area is provided to chestnut farmers, and 540,000 won per 1ha of cultivation area is supported as an eco-friendly chestnut production complex in the upstream area of Boryeong Dam. The ecological forestry direct payment is currently being paid to 1,400 chestnut-growing households, and it is a great help to foresters who are having difficulties due to lack of compensation or support. In order to ...