A measure for the promotion of mountain ecological villages in South Korea: focus on the national mountain ecological village investigation of 2014

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Table 15 Desired support items from the government for income promotion projects using forests

Division	Number of villages (village)	χ ^2c
Demand for income project using forests
Development of recreation areas and ecotourism sites using forests	167 (53.5)	478.052***
Cultivation of wood income crops, including wild greens and wood-cultivated ginseng	112 (35.9)
Lumbering income creation through afforestation	7 (2.2)
Wood grazing, including Hanwoo and goats	7 (2.2)
Production and sale of biofuel	4 (1.3)
Other^a	13 (4.2)
No response	2 (0.6)
Total	312 (100.0)
Desired support items from the government
Support for constructing forest recreation facilities	80 (25.6)	53.794***
National forest lending for the income project	65 (20.8)
Provision for new income crops, technical guidance, and market information	60 (19.2)
Development and supply of the mountain village tourism program	51 (16.3)
Continuous support for the surrounding forests by the national forest project	43 (13.8)
Other^b	11 (3.5)
No response	2 (0.6)
Total	312 (100.0)

Values in parentheses indicate percentage compositions
^aPlanting fruit trees and seedling production, etc
^bWorkforce support, support for the construction of a distribution center for forest products, continuous management, and operation manager support, etc
^cChi square goodness of fit test, * p < 0.05, ** p < 0.01, and *** p < 0.001