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Miryang City, Support for Apple Farmers Affected by Heat and Damage… 276,000 Won per Ha

Published Nov 14, 2024

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Miryang City, Gyeongnam Province, has launched the 'Agricultural Product Production Cost Guarantee Support Project' to aid apple farms affected by heat and damage due to abnormal weather conditions. The project will provide subsidy to farms that do not have crop disaster insurance and have an apple heat and damage rate of 20% or more. The subsidy will be 276,000 won per 1ha of cultivation area. About 1,300 farms in Miryang, growing apples on an area of 923ha, are eligible for this support.

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(Miryang=Yonhap News) Reporter Kim Dong-min = Miryang City, Gyeongnam Province, announced on the 14th that it will implement the 'Agricultural Product Production Cost Guarantee Support Project' to help apple farms that have suffered heat and damage due to abnormal weather. This year, the average monthly rainfall in the Miryang area in August was 181mm, down 75% from the average year, and the rainfall in October was 72.5mm, up 136%, resulting in significant heat and damage as apple skins, which had lost elasticity due to the continued heat wave and drought, rapidly absorbed moisture. Accordingly, Miryang City is newly implementing the agricultural product production cost guarantee support project for farms that are not compensated by crop disaster insurance, etc. Gyeongnam Province is supporting the project at the active request of the city and local provincial assembly members. The support target is farms with an apple heat and damage rate of 20% or more. Farms can apply by ...

Source: Yna