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

Published Jul 29, 2021

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Buyeo-gun, in Chungcheongnam-do, has started the nationwide implementation of the 'direct payment for forestry farms and ecological forestry' system, providing financial support to chestnut farmers. The system, which has been in place since 2019 as part of an eco-friendly forest product production complex project, has been helping 1,400 chestnut-growing households. The direct payment is conditional on mowing the cultivated area and limits subsidies when herbicides are sprayed, promoting environmental conservation. The bill for the forestry direct payment system has been proposed and abolished multiple times in the National Assembly since 2017.

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(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 ...

Source: Yna