‘Last year’s average forest household income was found to have increased by 2.7% to 38.41 million won from 37.38 million won the previous year.’
‘The Korea Forest Service announced on the 28th the results of the 2024 major forest household economic survey, which contains this information.’
‘The main reasons for the increase in average forest household income were identified as the rise in income from sales of forest products, labor income, capital income, and transferred income that includes subsidies for forestry and other non-forestry income.’
‘The average assets of a forest household were approximately 560.14 million won, a 2.7% increase compared to last year’s survey results.’
‘However, forest household debts also rose for both forestry-related and non-forestry-related debts, increasing by 3.8% compared to the previous year.’
‘The results of the forest household economic survey can be accessed or downloaded from the Korea Forest Service website.’
‘Ha Ji-su, head of the Forest Big Data Team at the Korea Forest Service, stated, “Forest household income increased due to the rising sales income from short-term income forest products such as fruit cultivation and landscaping.” He added, “We will continue to expand policy support based on big data to contribute to the management activities and income increase of forest business owners through accurate statistical surveys.”‘
‘Daejeon = Reporter Im Ho-beom’