(Pyeongchang=Yonhap News) Reporter Im Bo-yeon = The Pyeongchang County Agricultural Technology Center plans to implement a support project for safe disposal of agricultural by-products in the latter half of 2025 to reduce fine dust and minimize the occurrence of diseases and pests.
This project is expected to help reduce the amount of fine dust emitted in the agricultural sector and establish a friendly resource recycling system by recycling agricultural by-products generated on farming sites as resources through methods such as shredding and composting, rather than simply incinerating them.
The support targets local farmers in Pyeongchang County, with the responsible department for processing divided into the technology support division for field crops and the forestry division for fruit trees. Applications can be submitted through the industry team of each township office, with the first round from the 27th to the 31st and the second round from the 3rd to the 14th of November.
Priority will be given to areas adjacent to forests (within 100 meters), farmlands cultivated by the elderly and vulnerable groups, and general farmlands.
However, home gardens near houses or farmlands that are difficult to access, and by-products that are difficult to shred such as thorny plants and Angelica gigas stems are excluded from the support targets.
Won Gwang-sik, head of the technology support division of the county, said, "We will create a clean rural environment through the safe disposal of agricultural by-products with the active participation of farmers."