Applying for Young Farmer Settlement Support — Under-40 and 3-Year Farming Experience Requirements and Writing the Farming Plan

Procedure

1. 1. Check the selection plan announcement and eligibility

   Check the selection number, selection requirements and application period in the next year's selection plan, which the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs announces by December 31 each year. The basic statutory requirements are being a young farmer under 40, a total farming period of 3 years or less if already farming, and the feasibility and growth potential of a full-time farming plan, while detailed requirements such as the range of birth years and income and asset criteria are set each year in the program implementation guidelines. Women living in rural areas and members of multicultural families receive preference in selection.

2. 2. Organize basic data on crops, farmland, funds and sales channels

   First organize the crops you will grow, whether you will buy or lease farmland, the facilities and farm machinery needed, your own funds and policy fund financing plan, and your buyers. Plan screening also checks whether labor and equipment match the cultivation area and whether the timing of facility expansion matches the timing of fund spending. Collect materials such as farmland lease agreements and quotations that support the figures in the plan.

3. 3. Write the business plan (farming plan)

   To show feasibility and growth potential, which are the selection requirements, write consistent figures for cultivation scale by year, expected production and selling prices, required funds and financing methods, and education and skill acquisition plans. If you set the business goal for the final year first and work backward to the first year's preparations, the figures for each year fit together. A plan to increase production should also state sales channels and responses to price declines, and you check that the plan's figures match the attached materials.

4. 4. Submit the selection application and selection procedure

   During the application period, submit the youth start-up successor farm manager selection application with the business plan and documents proving the selection requirements to the city, county or district, and online applications are made through the Agriculture Business Information System. The mayor, county head or district head reviews the requirements and sends the results to the provincial governor, and when the provincial governor or the Minister of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs makes the selection, a selection certificate is issued. The processing period on the application form is 60 days and there is no fee.

5. 5. Using the grant and fulfilling obligations after selection

   The farming settlement grant may be used only for designated purposes such as daily necessities and food, education, medical and cultural service expenses, and farming supplies such as farm materials, fertilizer, pesticides and feed. You must farm full-time for the period set as a condition of payment and complete the education courses announced by the Minister of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs. Authorities may request materials or enter farmland to inspect grant use, so keep records of spending and farming.

Required documents

• Youth start-up successor farm manager selection application (Enforcement Rule of the Act on the Fostering and Support of Successors in Agriculture and Fisheries and Young Farmers and Fishers, Form No. 2)
• 1 copy of the business plan (farming plan)
• Documents proving the selection requirements (documents confirming age and farming experience, etc.)
• Farmland materials (farmland lease or purchase agreements, etc., supporting the plan's figures)
• Quotations for facilities and farm machinery and fund financing plan materials (supporting the plan's figures)
• Materials on secured buyers (contract farming or supply discussion materials, if any)
• Letter of authorization (when submitted by an agent)

Fees

Industry range of several hundred thousand won · We advise after consultation depending on the crops and plan period, the scope of organizing farmland, facility and fund materials, and whether a successor farm manager policy fund business plan is prepared together. There is no fee for the selection application itself.

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Legal basis and review date

• Act on the Fostering and Support of Successors in Agriculture and Fisheries and Young Farmers and Fishers, Article 2
• Act on the Fostering and Support of Successors in Agriculture and Fisheries and Young Farmers and Fishers, Article 8
• Act on the Fostering and Support of Successors in Agriculture and Fisheries and Young Farmers and Fishers, Article 16
• Enforcement Decree of the Act on the Fostering and Support of Successors in Agriculture and Fisheries and Young Farmers and Fishers, Article 3
• Enforcement Rule of the Act on the Fostering and Support of Successors in Agriculture and Fisheries and Young Farmers and Fishers, Article 2
• Enforcement Rule of the Act on the Fostering and Support of Successors in Agriculture and Fisheries and Young Farmers and Fishers, Article 3
• Enforcement Rule of the Act on the Fostering and Support of Successors in Agriculture and Fisheries and Young Farmers and Fishers, Article 4
• Enforcement Rule of the Act on the Fostering and Support of Successors in Agriculture and Fisheries and Young Farmers and Fishers, Article 6
• Enforcement Rule of the Act on the Fostering and Support of Successors in Agriculture and Fisheries and Young Farmers and Fishers, Article 7
• Enforcement Rule of the Act on the Fostering and Support of Successors in Agriculture and Fisheries and Young Farmers and Fishers, Article 8
• Enforcement Rule of the Act on the Fostering and Support of Successors in Agriculture and Fisheries and Young Farmers and Fishers, Article 9
• Enforcement Rule of the Act on the Fostering and Support of Successors in Agriculture and Fisheries and Young Farmers and Fishers, Form No. 2

Checked against the statutes on 2026-10-12

Statutes and public notices change, so each case needs to be checked individually. Statute titles are given in English for reference. The Korean statutes are the authoritative text.

Check these first

• Applications are accepted only during the application period set in the selection plan, so prepare farmland, fund and sales channel materials before the announcement.
• If the plan's cultivation area, production or fund figures differ from the attachments, or another person's plan is copied, it weighs against you in the feasibility review, and after selection the plan and actual farming are subject to inspection.

Frequently asked questions