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- Foodgrain Policy Division
- This Division shall take charge of the following tasks.
- 1. Management
- a. Establishing major business plans for the Food Policy Bureau and examining and evaluating them
- b. Drawing up and executing the expenses of basic projects for the Food Policy Bureau
- c. Making business reports and preparing conference materials
- d. Supervising the improvement of systems and the easing of regulations in the Food Policy Bureau
- e. General affairs of the Food Policy Bureau and matters which are not covered by other departments
- 2. Planning 1
- a. Establishing mid- and long-term food policies
- b. Establishing plans for the demand and supply of grain and spirits
- c. Deciding on the selling prices of government grain
- d. Controling the degree of self-sufficiency of foods and operating an advisory committee
- e. Introducing a self-help fund system for rice and preparing a promotional plan
- f. Dealing with the National Assembly and the press and making business report to the minister
- 3. Planning 2
- a. Revising and operating the grain management law
- b. Forming and operating the grain policy examination committee
- c. Hammering out schemes to enforce the public saving system
- d. The demand and supply of grain at the time of war
- e. The provision of foods to North Korea
- 4. Planning 3
- a. The demand and supply and price trends of grain in the international market
- b. WTO agricultural negotiation-related businesses (including commerce in the fields of grains and services)
- c. The import and management of MMA rice
- d. Businesses about foods-related international conferences and organizations
- 5. The demand and supply of cereals
- a. The demand and supply and utilization of cereals (other grains than rice and barley)
- b. The purchase and utilization of cereals
- c. Coming up with measures to stabilize the prices of cereals
- d. Taking cereals out to and in from North Korea
- e. Nonprofit corporations including cereals-related bodies
- f. Recommending to import Tariff-Rate Quota (trQ) and providing follow-up management
- g. The allotment of grains and the working of emergency and adjusted tariffs
- h. Businesses related to FTA negotiation for grains
- 6. Accounting
- a. Budgeting, accounting, and settling special accounts to manage grains
- b. The drawing up and execution of a budget for the Food Policy Bureau
- c. Taking care of tax revenues, bonds, national properties and goods in special accounts to manage grains
- d. The decision on a manipulated rate of government-managed grains and to the selling cost of the grains
- e. The supply of packaging materials
- Income Policy Division
- This Division shall take charge of the following tasks.
- 1. Planning
- a. Establishing major business plans for "Farm Household Income Stabilization Team"
- b. Establishing and comprehensively adjusting mid- and long-term rice income-stabilizing policies
- c. Operating the farm households income-stabilizing committee
- d. The operation of the law to supplement rice income and others
- e. General affairs of "Farm Household Income Stabilization Team" the promotional corps
- 2. Income Stabilization Support
- a. Operating the budget and fund for the direct payment system to supplement rice income
- b. The advertisement and education for the direct payment system to stabilize income
- c. Directing and supervising the progress in promoting and executing the direct payment system
- d. Intervening in dissensions among farmers and executing on-site monitoring
- 3. Systems
- a. The improvement of the direct payment system
- b. Regulation and suggestion systems
- c. International businesses including FTA/DDA
- d. Developing policies to stabilize the income of rice farming households and examining and evaluating the policies
- 4. Informatization
- a. Constructing and operating the computation system related to the direct payment system
- b. Developing programs to manage the recipients of direct payment
- c. Education and PR related to informatization
- d. Statistical management
- 5. agricultural land preservation 2
- a. Consultations to form park plans and tourist resorts
- b. Consultations on a national land comprehensive plan, a metropolitan city plan, and an urban basic plan
- c. Consultations on dividing areas controlled by the government
- d. Consultations on the areas whose development is restricted
- e. The cooperation with other ministries and agencies for the operation of the agricultural land preservation-related committees
- Income Management Division
- This Division shall take charge of the following tasks.
- 1. Management 1
- a. Managing grain processing, clearing, and polishing
- b. Managing the sale, transportation, and storage of grains
- c. The import and management of MMA rice
- d. Supplying rice for processing use
- e. Evaluating brand rice to improve rice quality
- f. PR to promote the consumption of rice
- g. General affairs of the department
- 2. Management 2
- a. Establishing and operating the measures to stabilize the price of grains
- b. The investigation into the price of grains and the public sale of grains
- c. Operating and managing a packing and labelling system for grains
- d. The distribution and management of grains
- e. The public purchase of rice
- 3. Rice Processing Complexes
- a. Establishing and promoting a basic plan for Rice Processing Complexes
- b. Supporting the establishment and operation of Rice Processing Complexes
- c. Management Innovation of Rice Processing Complexes
- d. Facilitating distribution of rice at local market
- Agricultural Production Management Division
- This Division shall take charge of the following tasks.
- 1. Planning business
- a. Improving the food crops planting system
- b. Improving the development and management of agricultural production policies
- c. Comprehensive analyzing propagating farming situation
- d. Identifying and advertizing exemplary cases of farming
- e. International cooperation in the agricultural production field
- f. General affairs
- 2. The management of agricultural production
- a. Fostering the households specializing in rice farming
- b. Increasing the scale of farming
- c. Businesses related to the direct payment granted for farm transfer
- 3. Agricultural production
- a. Establishing and supervising a comprehensive plan for foods production
- b. Promoting the measures to produce high-quality rice and enhance the competitiveness of rice
- c. Evaluating agricultural policies and examining and analyzing the policies
- d. Promoting the measures to produce field crops (barley)
- 4. The adjustment of production
- a. Establishing plans to adjust the production of food crops
- b. Promoting and evaluating the projects to adjust the production of food crops
- c. Promoting the measures to produce field crops (beans and legumes)
- d. Promoting the measures to improve the management of field crops and enhance their competitiveness
- 5. Countermeasures against disasters
- a. Taking overall charge of countermeasures against agricultural disasters
- b. Operating the Countermeasures against Natural Disasters Act and the Countermeasures against Agricultural and Fishery Disasters Act
- c. Business cooperation with the Central Disaster Relief Center
- d. Establishing and supporting agricultural disasters relief measures
- e. Agricultural weather matters
- f. Executing and closing accounts of a budget for disaster relief measures
- g. Improving agricultural disasters relief measure-related systems
- 6. Plant quarantine
- a. Operating the Plant Quarantine Act
- b. Businesses related to plant quarantine
- c. Directing and supervising the National Plant Quarantine Service
- d. Directing and supervising the association for preventing imported and exported plant diseases
- Agricultural Technology Support Division
- This Division shall take charge of the following tasks.
- 1. Technology policies
- a. Mid- and long-term plans to develop agricultural and forestry technologies and annual schemes to enforce the plans
- b. Operating the laws and regulations related to the projects to develop agricultural and forestr technologies
- c. Improving, evaluating and adjusting the system of technology development projects
- d. Operating the agricultural and forestry technology policy examination council
- e. The support for the development of planning and research subjects and technologies for middle- and small-sized ventures
- f. The support for the development of up-to-date technologies and technologies which are bottlenecked on the spot
- g. Adjusting the technologies developed by the headquarters, the Rural Development Adminstration and the Forestry Administration
- h. Investigating into the trend in the development and research of technologies at home and abroad
- i. Directing and supervising the agricultural and forestry technology management center
- 2. Tte management of technologies
- a. Utilization and follow-up management of developed technologies
- b. Making D/B of technology development
- c. Businesses related to the subjects in connection with the development of farmers
- d. Agricultural and Scientific Technology Awards
- e. Business cooperation within the ministry and other ministries and agencies in order to develop technologies
- f. The Korea-Japan agricultural, forestry and marine technological cooperation committee
- g. Directing and supervising scientific technology-related associations
- 3. Bio-industries
- a. Supervising the businesses about genetically modified agricultural products and about the safety of the products
- b. The fostering of biotechnology industries in the agricultural sector
- c. The preservation and movement of biological diversity in agricultural sector
- d. International cooperation in biotechnology and biological diversity
- e. Comprehensive management of genetic resources
- 4. Seed business
- a. Operating seed industry laws and regulations
- b. Establishing long- and short-term plans to foster seed industries
- c. A variety protection system and a seed guarantee system
- d. Operating the variety protection and judgement committee and the seed committee
- e. Promoting the projects to support seed industries
- f. Directing and supervising the National Seed Management Office
- g. Affairs connected to seed-related international cooperation
- 5. The planning of farm machines
- a. Establishing and promoting an agricultural mechanization plan (including the mechanization of horticulture, livestock and facilities)
- b. The promotion of using farm machines and the business to lease the machines
- c. The purchase, support and distribution of farm machines
- d. Farm machines exposition and export-related overseas businesses
- e. The provision of farm machines to North Korea
- f. Investigating into the quantity of farm machines and the degree of farming mechanization
- g. The support for the production of farm machines
- 6. The management of farm machines
- a. Operating the agriculture mechanization promotion law
- b. The follow-up management of farm machines
- c. The facilitation of farm machine development and automation
- d. The provision of tax-free oil and tax benefits to farm machines
- e. The inspection, safety management, and standardization of farm machines, and technological training for farmers
- f. The active trading of used farm machines
- g. The designation and management of new technology agricultural machines
- Environment-friendly Farming Policy Division
- This Division shall take charge of the following tasks.
- 1. Systems
- a. Operating the environment-friendly agriculture fostering law
- b. The improvement and management of an environment-friendly agricultural products certification system
- c. The investigation and evaluation of environment-friendly agriculture-related projects
- d. General affairs of the Division
- 2. Planning
- a. Supervising environment-friendly agricultural policy businesses
- b. The establishment and comprehensive adjustment of mid- and long-term plans for environment-friendly agriculture
- c. Environment-friendly agriculture-related international cooperation
- d. Environment-friendly business cooperation and adjustment in the ministry
- e. The environmental businesses conducted by other ministries and agencies
- 3. The promotion of the direct payment system for environment-friendly agriculture
- a. The promotion of the direct payment system for environment-friendly agriculture
- b. The establishment and evaluation of plans and the improvement of the direct payment system for environment-friendly agriculture
- c. The demand and supply of fertilizers and the management of price and quality
- d. The working and management of a fertilizers-related budget
- e. Manufacture, import and export of fertilizers and fertilizers-related technological affairs
- f. Operating the fertilizers management law
- 4. Fostering 1
- a. Businesses to foster environment-friendly agriculture (unit, corps, village, etc.)
- b. The comprehensive management of environment-friendly agricultural methods and materials
- c. The development of technologies for environment-friendly agriculture
- d. The establishment of plans to foster organic agriculture
- 5. Fostering 2
- a. The comprehensive betterment of soil
- b. Methods to better soil like the use of silicic acid and lime and earth brought from another place
- c. The cultivation of green fields
- d. Management and betterment of polluted farmland
- e. The prevention of soil from pollution caused by wasted farming materials
- f. The safety and quality management of agricultural pesticides
- g. The adjustment of the demand and supply of agricultural pesticides and the stabilization of their prices
- h. Agricultural pesticide-related international cooperation
- i. Operating the agricultural pesticides management law and directing and supervising agricultural pesticides-related bodies
- 6. Distribution
- a. Managing the quality of environment-friendly agricultural products
- b. Supporting the distribution of environment-friendly agricultural products
- c. Supporting the direct trade of environment-friendly agricultural products
- d. Managing the import and export of environment-friendly agricultural products
- e. Supporting the food processing businesses
- f. Education and PR and promotion of consumption
- g. Supporting environment-friendly agriculture through the cooperation of farmers, consumers, and the government
- h. The support for and business cooperation with environment-friendly bodies
- Audit & Inspection Division
- The Division shall assist the auditing chief in connection with the following affairs.
- 1. Audit planning
- a. Plan and adjustment of auditing business
- b. The operation of self-auditing organizations
- c. Auditing the National Agricultural Cooperative Federation and its member organizations
- d. General affairs in the auditing chief's room
- 2. The prevention of corruption
- a. Establishing, promoting and supervising plans to intensify the discipline of public offices and prevent corruption
- b. Inspecting the discipline of affiliated organizations and bodies
- c. Headquarters auditing and daily auditing
- d. Investigating and treating petitions and irregularities including those presented by other ministries and agencies
- e. The registration and examination of the properties of public officials, reports on gifts and limits to employment
- 3. Audit 1
- a. Integrating the materials to be audited by the Board of Audit and Inspection and doing liaison businesses
- b. Supervising the work of the auditing information comprehensive system
- c. Auditing local governments, including the government joint auditing
- d. Dealing with the demands made by the Board of Audit and Inspection after its auditing
- e. Auditing the National Agricultural Products Quality Management Service and the National Seed Management Office
- 4. Audit 2
- a. Auditing the National Veterinary Research and Quarantine Service and the Agricultural training Institute
- b. Auditing the Korea Racing Association
- c. Auditing the Rural Development Administration and the Forestry Administration
- 5. Audit 3
- a. Auditing the National Plant Quarantine Service
- b. Auditing the Agricultural and Fishery Marketing Corporation
- c. Inspecting the Eulji Practice
- 6. Audit 4
- a. Auditing the corporations established in accordance with the civil law
- b. Dealing with what the minister and/or vice-minister has ordered concerning auditing, including the actual conditions of agricultural and forestry affairs
- c. Supervising and inspecting the actual conditions of civil petitions transmitted by the Office of the President and other civil petitions
- 7. Audit 5
- a. Auditing the Korea Agricultural and Rural Infrastructure Corporation
- b. The auditing of agricultural and forestry technology development projects
- c. The control of business trips
- d. Administrative auditing and the operation of the audit request and deliberation conference
