The Korea Institute for Public Autonomy awarded an excellent local government certificate to Gapyeong-gun. Gapyeong-gun (Governor Seo Tae-won) received a certificate from the Korea Institute of Public Autonomy for ‘No. 1 in the nation in the management activity category of the Korea Local Autonomy Competitiveness Assessment.’
Gapyeong County Mayor Seo Tae-won and Korea Public Autonomy Institute Director Lee Ki-heon attended the certificate award ceremony held at the Gapyeong County Office on the 5th. The Korea Institute of Public Autonomy awarded the certificate and said, “As a result of the analysis of the 29th Korea Local Autonomy Competitiveness index in 2024, Gapyeong-gun was evaluated as having achieved excellent results in promoting regional competitiveness and developing local autonomy through the practise of advanced administration.”
The Korea Local Autonomy Competitiveness Index is an authoritative evaluation index that measures local autonomy competitiveness using official government statistics (80 indicators, 250 data) targeting 226 local governments across the country every year since 1996.
County Governor Seo Tae-won said,“I consider this achievement meaningful in that it is the result of recognition that the policies that Gapyeong-gun has pursued with the goal of improving the quality of life of residents are showing success one after another,” adding,“We will continue to provide services to residents through ‘active administration.’ “We will do our best to promote and sustainable development of Gapyeong-gun,” he said.
meanwhile, Gapyeong-gun (Governor Seo Tae-won) announced on the 6th that it had paid about 4.9 billion won in basic public interest direct payments in 2024 to 4,305 farmers in the district.
The public interest direct payment system is a system that provides direct payments to farmers who meet certain qualifications in accordance with the 「Agricultural and Rural Public Interest Direct Payment Act」 to strengthen the public interest function of agriculture and rural areas and promote the stability of farmers’ income.
The public interest direct payment paid this time is divided into direct payment for small farmers and direct payment for area. 3 billion won in direct payments to small farmers were paid to 2,305 people, and 1.9 billion won in area direct payments were paid to about 2,000 people.
Small farmer direct payments are eligible for farmers with a cultivation area of 0.1 to 0.5 ha. They must meet eight requirements, including △ living in a rural area △ engaged in farming for more than 3 years as of the previous year △ household farmland owned by less than 1.55 ha △ comprehensive income other than agriculture less than 20 million won △ total household income less than 45 million won. Households that meet the requirements will be paid 1.3 million won per household. Area direct payments are paid differentially by applying the unit price for each payment section.
A military official said, “We hope that the basic public interest direct payment will help stabilize the income of farmers,” and added, “We will do our best to promote the project so that all eligible people can receive the direct payment benefit without any farms being left out next year.”
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