(Yanggu=Yonhap News) Reporter Yang Ji-woong = Gangwon Yanggu County announced on the 9th that it will invest over 2.5 billion won in a total of 17 eco-friendly agricultural fields this year, including support for organic farming materials, to promote eco-friendly agriculture. This support project will be divided into three areas: promotion of eco-friendly agriculture, improvement of soil environment, and support for agricultural human resources and education. The promotion of eco-friendly agriculture includes 12 detailed projects such as support for organic farming materials and eco-friendly agricultural materials, and will invest over 880 million won. In particular, this year, new projects such as support for the environmental improvement of eco-friendly agricultural production facilities and support for eco-friendly pest control will be developed to preemptively respond to abnormal weather and the occurrence of pests and diseases, and to ease the management burden of eco-friendly agricultural households. The soil environment improvement area will invest 1.55 billion won in three projects including organic fertilizer support, soil amendment support, and soil environment improvement and fertility enhancement. The agricultural human resources and education support area will invest 720 million won to strengthen agricultural management consulting support, customized agricultural technology dissemination, and education and consulting. The county plans to finalize the recipients of the support and fully implement the project after reviewing it this month. Kim Byeong-ae, head of the Agricultural Support Division, said, "Eco-friendly agriculture is a key policy that can simultaneously achieve environmental conservation and improve farmers' income," and said, "We will continue to support so that eco-friendly agriculture can become the center of Yanggu agriculture." yangdoo@yna.co.kr