GWANGJU, May 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Social agricultural space utilizing underground space of public housing is expected to continue to grow in popularity. According to Gwangju’s Gwangsan District on Wednesday, the district will expand an underground mushroom farm in public housing that opened in December last year. The district has secured an additional 56 square [...]
SEOUL, May 30 (Korea Bizwire) – Technology allowing ordinary consumers to easily check the freshness of eggs with their smartphones has been developed, a research institute said Thursday. The new technology uses a reusable wireless sensor tag, communication unit and dynamic software to check the movement and the surrounding temperatures of an egg without cracking [...]
SEOUL, May 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of South Korean companies raising or processing insects for foodstuffs, pets and other purposes grew threefold in 2018 from three years earlier, data showed Tuesday. According to the data compiled by the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, the number of insect companies in the country [...]
HWASEONG/GOYANG, May 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Lim Ju-wan, who has been raising flowers for more than 30 years, normally starts the day by taking out his smartphone to check his greenhouse instead of going outside to his land like traditional farmers. “I do not need to physically go to the greenhouses by myself as I [...]
SEOUL, May 16 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co., in cooperation with Daedong Industrial Co., South Korea’s largest manufacturer of agricultural machinery, has developed an autonomous rice transplanter for commercial use. It is country’s first autonomous agricultural machinery to be commercialized using mobile communications technology. The autonomous rice transplanter follows the seedbed and plants rice [...]
JINJU, May 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Mini bell peppers grown in South Korea are bringing new opportunities to farms in the country. The Raon pepper, a new species developed by Gyeongsangnam-do Agricultural Research & Extension Services (GARES) in 2015, is gaining popularity. Raon peppers are one-fourth the size of common bell peppers, while they are [...]
SEOUL, May 2 (Korea Bizwire) – The National Agricultural Products Quality Management Service said on Wednesday that it has recently cracked down on 132 manufacturers and distributors of pork and kimchi that have violated rules on country of origin labeling. Out of 10,732 vendors that handle pork and kimchi across the country, the agency found [...]
ANDONG, Apr. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — As the insect industry is gaining attention as a new growth industry for the future, an increasing number of insect farms are appearing in North Gyeongsang Province. According to the provincial office on Monday, the number of insect breeding farms in the province increased from 68 in 2014 to [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 28 (Korea Bizwire) - Prices of pork meat in South Korea shot up nearly 17 percent this month due to strong demand in line with increased outdoor activities such as camping, and may further rise down the road, data showed Sunday. According to the data by the Korea Agro-Fisheries & Food Trade Corp., [...]
CHANGWON, Apr. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Farmland near Junam Reservoir in the city of Changwon, South Gyeongsang Province, a popular destination for migratory birds, will turn into a pesticide-free farming complex that helps both the birds and the environment. Changwon, the Morning of Junam, a farming association, and the Machangjin Federation for Environmental Movement signed [...]