SEOUL, Aug. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – A sampling device to detect the movement of pests coming from China and elsewhere has been developed by a state-run agency. The Rural Development Administration said on August 24 that it has succeeded in developing the “Smart Air Sampling Device” that can collect pests and indicate the numbers in real time. [...]
SEOUL, July 29 (Korea Bizwire) — The Rural Development Administration (RDA) began a service offering future climate information by simply entering the number of land lot in its website(www.agdcm.kr). It opened the agro-climate map database to revitalize the usage of public data in the government 3.0 era and for individual farmers to employ it for their convenience. The [...]
SEOUL, July 19 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea is caught in a vicious circle largely because of its severe food shortage problems, according to local forest expert’s recently published book. In a book titled “The Loss of North Korea’s Forests Turning the Korean Peninsula into Desert,” written by Kim Seong-il, a professor of forest science [...]
SEOUL, July 18 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean authorities responsible for public food safety have officially given ‘green light’ on the use of mealworms applicable to food ingredients. The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (MFDS) announced on July 15 that it is now legally possible to use the mealworms or Tenebrio molitor Linne, as [...]
DUBLIN, IRELAND, Jul. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – Research and Markets (http://bit.ly/1kr6yzC) has announced the addition of Jain PharmaBiotech’s new report “Global Animal Biotechnology Report 2014-2023 – Technologies, Markets and Companies” to their offering. This report describes and evaluates animal biotechnology and its application in veterinary medicine and pharmaceuticals as well as improvement in food production. [...]
SEOUL, July 14 (Korea Bizwire) — KT announced on July 11 that it has successfully established “a Smart Plant Factory Total Solution,” an agricultural cultivation facility using ICT technology, in one of the agrarian districts of Gangwon Province in Korea. As part of the wider program to make farming a high value-added business and linked with [...]
DUBLIN, IRELAND, Jul. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – Research and Markets (http://bit.ly/VfZboC) has announced the addition of the “Global Animal Feed Additives (Swine, Poultry, Cattle, Aquaculture, Others) – Forecasts to 2018″ report to their offering. Animal feed additives are pharmaceutical or nutritional substances which are not of natural origin and are added to prepared and stored feeds. [...]