BEIJING, Feb. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – China’s commerce ministry said Wednesday that it is “highly concerned” about a recent rejection of some Chinese garlic imports by South Korea, asking Seoul to properly handle the trade dispute. South Korea’s state-run Korea Agro-Fisheries & Food Trade Corp. returned about 2,200 tons of garlic to Lanling County in [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – The Protecting Korea Project, a Korean NGO established to secure food security for Korea and solve world famine and poverty through organic farming in overseas lands, has been also leading an unprecedentedly massive organic farming project in Brazil. About 30 young Koreans are developing the 119 sq km organic farm [...]
“The central and local governments are focusing on disinfection and preventive measures while blaming the avian flu on migratory birds. However, the fact is that infectious diseases such as avian flu cannot be prevented without any improvement in their breeding environment enhancing their welfare. The governments just ignore the fact.” “Milder forms of bird flu [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – What would you do with huge piles of dead leaves along the streets? A slew of agricultural technology management authorities turn these useless fallen leaves into useful ones by using them to make compost. Seowon District in Cheongju City offers a service to this end in which the city [...]
Latest Installment Features a Young Leader in Animal Welfare SMITHFIELD, Va., Nov. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — At 30 years old, Ashley DeDecker, PhD., already has received accolades for her efforts to improve animal care and welfare in the pork industry. Her work, representing one of Smithfield Foods’ key sustainability commitments, is featured in the latest [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Global warming and climate change have not just resulted in the world-wide rush to develop alternative energy or eco-friendly vehicles. The seemingly inescapable phenomenon has impacted on a huge chunk of arable lands across the globe. Climate change can affect both crop yield and the land area suitable for [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Domestic roses cultivated with South Korea’s own technology are to be exported to an overseas market for the first time. South Gyeongsang Province signed an agreement with Indobloom, a farming company in India, on October 14 to export domestic roses to the South Asian nation. According to the agreement, the [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 15 (Korea Bizwire) – The government has decided to intervene in South Korea’s rice market as it announced it would purchase up to 180,000 tons of rice to ensure a stable national supply, its first move since 2010. Growing worries that a bumper crop of rice and a decline in rice consumption may [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — The volume of lobsters exported to South Korea has skyrocketed thanks to the South Korea-U.S. Free Trade Agreement. According to the United States Department of Commerce on October 4, lobster sales to Korea accounted for US$18.1 million or about 19.3 billion won last year, up by 639.5 percent compared with [...]
SEOUL, Sep. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – A proposed free trade agreement between the Republic of Korea and Canada has received a green light from South Korea’s Cabinet council on September 11, making the parties draw one step closer to the full-fledged trade exchange with less or no tariffs between the two countries. Korea’s Cabinet on [...]