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Title	Results of the 2010 Census of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (Rural Community)
Date	2011-12-16
◎ The number of villages was 36,498 in 2010. As for the share of villages by province, Jeonnam occupied the largest share. ◎ The average number of households in a village was 48.9 households. 98.7 percent of villages (36,027 villages) had farm households. ◎ Residents in 94.9 percent of villages were accessible to a means of mass transportation. Mainly they used city buses. ◎ Living facilities were located within 20 minutes for most of villages. ◎ Distribution facilities and production base facilities were mainly located 'more than 30 minutes' away from villages. Whereas, low temperature storage warehouses were mainly located 'within villages'. ◎ As for the type of agriculture, paddy rice villages occupied the largest share, which was followed by villages of vegetables and wild greens. As for marine fisheries, fishing fisheries using fishing vessels occupied the majority. ◎ One out of three villages in Eup and Myeon had crop clubs. As for the main method of waste disposal, separate collection occupied the largest share. ※ For more information, refer to the attached file.
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