Gyeonggi Province to Support 31 Projects with 19.4 Billion Won for Regional Specialty Agriculture in 2021

[Suwon Ilbo=Reporter Park No-hun] Gyeonggi Province will provide 19.4 billion won to support 31 detailed projects across 14 municipalities through this year's Selective Customized Agricultural Policy projects.

The Selective Customized Agricultural Policy project is an initiative that strengthens the competitiveness of Gyeonggi agricultural products and realizes high added value by supporting specialty items suited to regional characteristics.

This year, the province will focus support on 15 items including flowers, pears, apples, grapes, ginseng, Chinese chives, rice, asparagus, kimchi, and facility vegetables.

By municipality, the projects and support amounts are as follows: Yongin 1 project 900 million won, Hwaseong 1 project 800 million won, Pyeongtaek 3 projects 1.3 billion won, Gimpo 2 projects 500 million won, Icheon 3 projects 100 million won, Namyangju 2 projects 1.6 billion won, Paju 2 projects 900 million won, Gwangju 2 projects 2.2 billion won, Yangju 2 projects 2.1 billion won, Pocheon 1 project 700 million won, Yangpyeong 3 projects 2.4 billion won, Yeoju 3 projects 3.4 billion won, Gapyeong 3 projects 900 million won, and Yeoncheon 3 projects 1.6 billion won.

The province selected projects to support by targeting regional specialty items and items with high specialization potential through application collection and municipal screening from July to September last year, followed by provincial on-site verification from November to December.

Ahn Dong-gwang, Director of the Agricultural Policy and Marine Affairs Bureau of Gyeonggi Province, said “In the latter half of this year, we plan to recruit applicants for the 2022 Selective Customized Agricultural Policy projects, and will continue to support projects requiring year-by-year investment to promote clustering and scaling of regional specialty items.”

Meanwhile, since 2004, the province has invested a total of 347.1 billion won in Selective Customized Agricultural Policy projects to strengthen the competitiveness of regional specialty items (grapes in Hwaseong and Anseong, pears in Pyeongtaek and Namyangju, apples in Pocheon and Gapyeong, tomatoes in Gwangju, peaches in Icheon, Chinese chives in Yangpyeong, flowers in Yongin and Goyang, etc.) and new income crops (blueberries, aronia, asparagus, kimchi, etc.).

Additionally, the province plans to utilize results from analyzing 2020 project performance in the first half of the year as promotional and provincial policy materials.