Improvement of responsiveness againstthe change in agricultural administration

• Industrialization of high-quality Chungnam rice
• Supports low-concentration forage and develops storage facilities (KRW 21.9 bil.)
• Awarded first place in the National High-quality Rice Contest (Asan Clean Rice, Taean Golden Rice)
• Expansion of export of agricultural and marine products:
  USD 84 mil. (2003) USD 115 mil. (2004) ( USD 122 mil. (2005)
• Advancement of agricultural and marine product distribution system
• APC-centered outpostㆍ34 stations / KRW 30.1 bil.
• Designated as Provincial Governor-recommended Product: 97 suppliers (45 items / 114 cases)
• Increase of sales due to higher customer confidence: KRW 48 bil. (2000) ( KRW 161.8 bil. (2005)
• Development of agriculture experience program (village)
• evelops green agriculture experience villages (16 villages / KRW 3.2 bil.), fishing experience villages (7 villages / KRW 4.3 bil.), and mountain villages (15 villages / KRW 24.1 bil.)
• Opportunity for agriculture experience due to 5-day work system:
  47,000 visitors (2003) ( 148,000 visitors (2004) ( 345,000 visitors (2005)
• Realization of advanced welfare for farmers and fishermen
• Establishment of "Female Farmer Center" (4 stations / KRW 500 mil.)
• Farm household helper system (361 helpers / KRW 600 mil.)
• Tuition for children (14,500 students / KRW 11.9 bil.) and child care expenses (6,198 / KRW 7.6 bil.)
• Nurture of professional agriculture and fisheries CEO

Production of safe and high-quality agricultural products

• Maintains a certain level in farmers' revenue and stabilizes management
• Analyzes how to improve competitiveness in gardening or special products
• Establishes environment-friendly substructure and produces safe and high-quality products
• Number of farm household: 280 (2000) →2,930 (2003) →5,000 (2005)
• Area: 130ha (2000) →,800 (2003) →4,800 (2005)
• Production: 3,000 tons (2000) →40,000 tons (2003) →87,000 tons (2005)

Improvement of settlement conditions in rural community and enforcement of farming facilities

• Enhancement of settlement conditions in agricultural district
• Enforcement of farming facilities
• Establishes environment-friendly substructure and produces safe and high-quality products
• Number of farm household: 280 (2000) →2,930 (2003) →5,000 (2005)
• Area: 130ha (2000) →,800 (2003) →4,800 (2005)
• Development of agricultural water: Promotes water supply to rural communitiesㆍ102 districts / KRW 17.3 bil.

Nurture of environment-friendly livestockindustry and supply ofsafe livestock products

• Increases brand power "Tobau": 2004ㆍ2006, investment of KRW 4.6 bil. 500 households participated
• Establishes high-quality bulk feed production facilities
• Utilization of livestock manure: Installation (97%), rate of resource recovery (76%)
• Improvement of sanitationand safety of livestock products: Establishment of comprehensive safe system in rearing, production, and distribution
• Prevention of infectious livestock diseases
• Known as FMD-free zone since 2002 and AI-free district since 2004
• Awarded with "The BEST Province"in 2005 Infectious Livestock Disease Prevention

Nurture of forest resources and expansion of green environment

• Development of "Green Chungnam Park": KRW 40 bil. project from 2005 through 2007ㆍDevelops theme forest including well-being park, curb and small parks
• Prevention of forest fire and restoration of the damaged area: Artificial restoration (1,962ha), natural restoration (1,133ha) / KRW 9.8 bil.
• Development of substructure for forest recreation and revenue increase
• Develops natural forest recreation & arboretum (13 spots / KRW 37.4 bil.), natural forest (2 spotsㆍGeumsan, Baekje forest / KRW 3 bil.), Wooden Product Outdoor Exhibition Hall (1 spotㆍCheongyang / KRW 1.6 bil.)
• Establishes production substructure for revenue increase (15 projects including shiitake mushroom and chestnuts / KRW 14 bil.)
• Increase of growing stock (per ha): 54 ㎥ (2001) →68 ㎥ (2005)
• Prevention of pine wood nematode (10 stations, 18 groups, 54 people)
• Environment-friendly construction (10,200ha)

Development and nurture of rich fishery resources

• Comprehensive development of fisheries and expansion of local fishing port
• Comprehensive fishery development (10 districts / KRW 34.4 bil.), development of fishery tourist park (1 location / KRW 6 bil.), development of multi-functional fishing ports (3 locations / KRW 50 bil.), and development of local fishing ports (11 locations (54%) / KRW 104.6 bil.)
• Clean sea water, development of fresh seashore environment
• Removal of ocean waste (900 tons / KRW 800 mil.), cleaning of fishing grounds (677ha / KRW 500 mil.), cleaning of dumped fishing nets (250 tons/ KRW 800 mil.), and coast maintenance (27 spots / KRW 18.6 bil.)
• Creation of environment for special farming
• Artificial fishing banks (16,208ha / KRW 63 bil.), fishing ground management (15,736ha / KRW 2.5 bil.), and marine seedling (3.9 million fish / KRW 1 bil.)
• Improvement of aquaculture competitiveness: Supplied organic acids for cultivating Porphyra since 1995 and eliminated starfish
• Expansion of harbor facilities: Boryeong port, Daesan port, and Pyeongtaek & Dangjin port

Main statistics

• ①Agriculture

• Top Items among national production
  Rice (18.1%), watermelon (25.1%), Ginger (56.0%)
  Chinese wolfberry (82.3%), strawberry (24.3%), ginseng (80%)
  Tomato (16.5%), mushroom (53.5%)
• ②Livestock
• Livestock household: 76,000 households (Profession livestock: 2,107 households)
• Number of livestock: Korean native cattle (237, No. 3 in Korea), dairy cows (78, No. 2 in Korea), pigs (1,636, No. 2 in Korea), and fowl (18 million, No.2 in Korea)
• ③Forestry
• Area of forest land: 441,000ha (National & public forest: 49, private forest: 392)
  Reserved forest: 283,000ha, semi-reserved forest: 158,000ha
• Growing stock: 30mil.㎥ (67.7m2per ha)
• Forest production: Shiitake mushroom (1,659 tons, 31% of the total production), chestnut (23,213 tons, 32% of the total production)
• ④Fisheries
• Fishery population: 10,500 households, 27,400 people (12.4% of total fishery population)
• Fishing port: 59 locations
  National port: 7, local port: 29, small fishing port: 23
• Fishing boats: 6,500 boats, 22,000 tons (7.1% of total fishing boats)
• Fishing grounds: 13,062ha (sea fishery: 12,797, freshwater fishery: 265)
• Production: 101,000 tons (3.7% of the total production)