Yeonggwang-gun won the ‘Excellence Award’ in the 2024 Jeollanam-do food and horticulture business evaluation. Yeonggwang-gun (Governor Jang Se-il) won the Excellence Award in the 2024 Jeollanam-do Food and Horticulture Business Evaluation. Following the Excellence Award in 2021, the Grand Prize in 2022, and the Grand Prize in 2023 when the food and horticulture business evaluation began, it was honored for four consecutive years.
This evaluation evaluated 18 items in 3 areas targeting 21 cities and counties in the province, including ▲securing an appropriate rice cultivation area, ▲expanding subscription to agricultural policy insurance, ▲participation in national and provincial funding contests in the food and horticulture fields, ▲ It received high scores in all areas, including expansion of facility horticulture cultivation area and nurturing young farmers. In particular, last year, the rice cultivation area was reduced by 320ha, stabilizing rice prices during the harvest season, ranking first in the province in crop disaster insurance subscription rate, and achieving excellent results compared to other cities and counties by promoting excellent policies to revitalize the agricultural machinery rental business.
Yeonggwang County Mayor Jang Se-il said, “I believe agriculture is the future of our county and the foundation of the local economy.” He added, “We are building an unwavering agricultural production base amid difficult conditions such as skyrocketing agricultural production costs due to rising agricultural materials and labor costs and agricultural disasters due to abnormal climate.” “We will not spare any support in the future to build and improve the real income of farmers.”
Meanwhile, Yeonggwang-gun visited the base disinfection facility to check the progress and operational status of quarantine and disinfection of vehicles entering and exiting livestock-related facilities and encourage field workers as highly pathogenic avian influenza has recently occurred one after another in nearby areas.
Yeonggwang-gun has maintained a clean area without livestock infectious diseases for 9 consecutive years since the outbreak in 2014, and to this end, a base disinfection facility has been installed in Upyeong-ri, the gateway to Yeonggwang from Yeonggwang IC, and is operating 24 hours a day. At the base disinfection facility, livestock vehicles are disinfected and only vehicles carrying a disinfection certificate are allowed to enter the farm.
On this day, Yeonggwang County Mayor Jang Se-il met with livestock officials and emphasized, “In a serious situation where highly pathogenic avian influenza is occurring one after another in the nearby area, farms and administration must join forces to maintain clean glory.”
In addition, he requested active cooperation, saying that thorough quarantine awareness among farms is necessary to prevent AI. In particular, he emphasized, “Poultry farms must follow key quarantine rules to prevent AI outbreaks, such as access control and disinfection, changing and wearing special boots when entering the livestock shed, and immediately reporting to the nearest quarantine agency when suspicious livestock are discovered.”
Economy Queen Reporter Hana Choi Photo: Yeonggwang-gun
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