KRC Lends an Ear to Voices of Farming and Fishing Body, and Exchanges Views on Pending Issues

President Lee Byung-ho of Korea Rural Community Corp. (KRC) meets and exchanges views with heads of farming and fishing organizations to a meeting at KRC’s Gyeonggi Regional Headquarters in Suwon on June 9. (Photo: KRC)

Korea Rural Community Corp. (KRC) invited heads of farming and fishing organizations to a meeting at KRC’s Gyeonggi Regional Headquarters in Suwon on June 9, where they exchanged views on KRC’s major tasks and key pending issues, and agreed on a consensus.

About 20 chiefs of farming and fishing organizations, belonging to the “Korea Agriculture and Livestock Federation,” participated in the meeting.

The meeting took up topics such as tasks related to agricultural water to overcome drought, the current status of agricultural land bank officials, and agricultural policy changes and the direction of regional development projects.

Participants called for KRC to play a leading role as a water management institution to ease farmers’ misgivings over water, as the recent drought dragged on, and there were deep water volume gaps according to each region.

KRC President Lee Byung-ho said, “KRC will reflect farmers and fishermen’s views on its management by listening to their voices attentively and communicating.”

KRC will devote itself to overcoming the food and climate crisis, and a crisis related to the extinction of farming and fishing villages, by pondering close cooperation and communication, and yielding fruits for sustainable agriculture, he added.

KRC Accelerates Efforts to Carry Out ESG Management in Environment Sector

Korea Rural Community Corp. said on June 23 it would comply with carbon neutrality policies by aggressively executing ESG management in the environmental sector.

The three areas KRC implements are energy transition, greenhouse gas emission reduction and responding to climate change.

KRC is ramping up efforts to carry out greenhouse gas emission reduction and responding to climate change.

The corporate inaugurated a committee for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and set the direction of greenhouse gas emission reduction and energy preservation.

KRC has determined data on greenhouse gases, being emitted by agricultural infrastructure facilities and buildings and it is making efforts to reduce greenhouse gases by 2 percent annually.

In particular, combustion engine cars in the transportation sector will be replaced with eco-friendly cars on a gradual basis.

KRC will prioritize purchasing high-efficiency energy opponents and equipment and first-class energy grading products while “energy guards” at each department will be posted to carry out greenhouse emission reduction and explore ideas.

As for responding to climate change, KRC is exploring ways of jointly coping with climate change in cooperation with organizations related to climate change on top of conducing vulnerability and impact evaluation against 167 cities and counties by 2030.

In particular, recent climate change patterns showed rising average temperatures and surging heat days, but annual average precipitation dropped and there were a wide gap of downpour days according to each region, so steps need to be taken to preemptively cope with drought and floods.

To this end, KRC shares practices to cope with climate change with four institutions, including the Climate Change Center, and it has an opportunity to exchange views more than once annually.

KRC Vice President Kim Byung-soo said, “KRC works out systematic and realistic plans to cope with climate change and make efforts to build an eco-friendly and low-carbon farming and fishing villages.”

KRC Proves K-agriculture Technology in Indonesia

Korea Rural Community Corp. struck a deal to win an engineering service on the Matenggeng multi-purpose dame from the Indonesia government on June 24.

A consortium, led by KRC, landed the latest order. KRC showcased K-agriculture technology prowess in Indonesia by landing projects in succession in June 2021 and February 2022.

The latest project involves an engineering service on a project to improve irrigation and drainage facilities in the whole of Indonesia covering 348,000 ha.

Early this year, KRC was designed as an institution charged with the establishment of food and farming plans and supporting technologies on their action plans in accordance with the relocation of Indonesia’s capital.