Yeongcheon City (Mayor Choi Ki-moon) received the honor of winning the grand prize in the 2024 Special Vegetable Crop Policy Evaluation conducted by Gyeongsangbuk-do on the 19th.
As a result of the policy evaluation conducted on 23 cities and counties in Gyeongsangbuk-do, a total of 5 cities and counties were selected. In addition to Yeongcheon City, which won the grand prize, Goryeong-gun and Sangju-si were selected as the grand prize winners, and Yecheon-gun and Bonghwa-gun were selected as excellent prize winners. Yeongcheon City achieved the feat of winning awards for 7 consecutive years, including the Grand Prize in 2018, the Grand Prize in 2019, the Grand Prize in 2020, the Grand Prize in 2021, the Grand Prize in 2022, the Grand Prize in 2023, and the Grand Prize in 2024.
This policy evaluation was conducted to improve the operation efficiency of the policy to foster the facility horticulture, vegetable, and special crop industries and to boost the morale of public officials. Yeongcheon City was conducted to determine the national and provincial budget allocation amount and budget execution rate, the number of new policy discoveries, and autonomous supply and demand control of garlic and onions. It received good scores in terms of participation rate and the number of projects selected for the 2025 national and provincial funding contest, winning the honor of the grand prize.
In October of this year, Yeongcheon City was finally selected for the base strawberry specialty nursery project as a city-county project project for the 2025 Gyeongbuk Province horticultural income crop development support project, securing a total project cost of 3 billion won (1.5 billion won in provincial funds and 1.5 billion won in fertilization funds) and special vegetable crops. We have been actively pursuing policies in the field.
Yeongcheon Mayor Choi Ki-moon said, “Winning the Gyeongsangbuk-do Vegetable Special Crop Policy Evaluation for 7 consecutive years is the fruit of mutual communication and cooperation between the city council, which worked hard to secure the budget, and the Nonghyup, farmers, and related organizations who worked hard to promote the project.” He added, “Thank you to everyone who worked hard. “I am honored to receive the award,” he said.
Meanwhile, Yeongcheon City (Mayor Choi Ki-moon) signed a business agreement to revitalize the local economy and respond to population decline at Yeongcheon City Hall on the 24th, with the mayor of Gyeongbuk Development Corporation and other officials in attendance.
At the business agreement ceremony, we jointly responded to the national challenges of economic recession and population decline, and actively utilized the capabilities and resources of both organizations to discover innovative future joint projects for regional development and promote regional growth base development projects. We decided to cooperate with each other.
This business agreement is expected to be an important first step in promoting sustainable development, focusing on investment-leading districts and subway area development projects, new and renewable energy power generation projects, and government public offering projects for regional economic development.
Yeongcheon Mayor Choi Ki-moon said, “Through this agreement, we expect that the investment-leading district and development projects near the station will gain further momentum and have a positive effect on revitalizing the local economy and population inflow, and Yeongcheon City is working to further solidify the future growth engine of the local economy.” “We will actively pursue various projects,” he said.
Economy Queen Reporter Hongmi Kim / Photo Yeongcheon City
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