Icheon City Holds First Urban Agriculture Committee Meeting of 2025

[Suwon Ilbo=Reporter Eom In-yong] Icheon City held the '2025 First Urban Agriculture Committee Meeting' on the 21st at the conference room of the Agricultural Technology Center.

The Icheon City Urban Agriculture Committee is composed of 11 members including the director of the Agricultural Technology Center as chairperson and experts in various fields of urban agriculture, in accordance with the 'Ordinance on the Promotion and Support of Urban Agriculture in Icheon City' to promote invigoration and development plans for urban agriculture.

The meeting proceeded in the following order: △Reporting on 2024 urban agriculture implementation results and 2025 plans, △Deliberation on project beneficiary selection in the urban agriculture field, and △General discussion.

Roh Jae-deok, director of the Agricultural Technology Center, stated, "We will actively promote various projects so that urban residents and agriculture and rural areas can develop together," and "We will contribute to enhancing the positive value of agriculture and improving citizens' quality of life through the invigoration of urban agriculture."