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Direct Payment for Paddy Field (Double-cropping) Farming

Project Purpose

  • To compensate income of farmers of dry fields and improve self-sufficiency of major crops and public benefits of agriculture and rural areas

Applicable Laws

  • Article 22 of the Act on the Implementation of the Direct Payment Program for Agriculture and Rural Areas
  • Article 42 of the Enforcement Decree of the Act on the Implementation of the Direct Payment Program for Agriculture and Rural Areas

Financial Source and Budget

  • 100% national budget of 46,200 million won (Direct payment fund for the public benefits of agriculture and rural areas)

Progress

  • (in 2012) Direct Payment System was adopted for paddy field farming (19 items)
    • * The Enforcement Regulation of Direct Payment System for Agricultural Producers was enacted
  • (in 2014) Direct Payment System for double cropping in paddy fields was newly adopted
    • * The Enforcement Regulation of Direct Payment System for Agricultural Producers was revised
  • (in 2016) The system was reformed into Fixed Direct Payment for paddy fields and for double cropping in paddy fields
    • * The Enforcement Regulation of Direct Payment System for Agricultural Producers was revised
  • (in 2020) Direct payments for rice, paddy fields and double cropping were integrated into ‘Basic Direct Payment for Public Benefit.’ Direct payment for double cropping in fields was reformed into ‘Optional Direct Payment for Public Benefit.’
    • * The Act on the Implementation of the Direct Payment Program for Agriculture and Rural Areas was wholly revised (December 27, 2019)

Main content

  • To provide 500,000 won per 1ha to farmers who use and manage fields by promoting self-sufficiency rate of food in farmland subject to direct payment using fields (double cropping of fields) and by cultivating crops to stabilize supply and demand of each item

Target Items

  • Food and forage grown in fields (excluding non-cultivating and greenhouse areas) which can be harvested by the end of June and can be double cultivated
    • → ① Unhulled barley, naked barley, malting barley, wheat, rye, oat, potato, etc.
      * Items which can be harvested before the period (June) by cultivating in a tunnel-shaped greenhouse with wires and pipes (tunnel cultivation) such as potatoes are included
    • → ② Items of forage crops or vegetable crops according to the categorization of standard codes for agricultural and fisheries products used by farm management companies such as forage barley and Italian rice grass
    • → △ Forage Crops: Oat, forage canola, rye, Italian rice grass, etc.
    • → △ Vegetable Crops: Alfalfa, white clover, red clover, birds food trefoli, orchard grass, tall fescue, timothy grass, perennial rye grass, Kentucky bluegrass, redtop, reed canary grass, meadow fescue, bromgrass, etc.
      * For more details such as eligibility and requirements, farmers can consult with community centers in their eup, myeon and dong