SEOUL, March 9 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea said Tuesday it plans to lift a set of regulations in the agricultural sector to harness more state-of-the-art technologies and foster new growth engines for the industry. Under the blueprint, South Korea will establish new smart farming clusters for a wider scope of areas covering livestock, according [...]
SEOUL, March 8 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s oceans ministry announced Monday a five-year blueprint to better manage the country’s fishery resources, as climate change and overfishing have been challenging the sustainability of the local fisheries industry. Under the plan, the combined amount of fishery resources in the country’s coastal lines will rise to 4 [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s chicken exports touched a new high in 2020 amid growing worldwide demand for ready-to-eat products and the popularity of Korean pop culture, a report showed Thursday. Overseas shipments of processed chicken came to US$21 million last year, up 59.5 percent from a year earlier, according to the [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — The amount of wheat and other grains brought home by South Korean agricultural firms more than doubled in 2020 from a year earlier, data showed Thursday, in line with the country’s efforts to revamp its national food security. The combined amount of grains excluding rice imported through South Korean [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Park Hye-seong, a 39-year-old mother of two, recently subscribed to a rice delivery service offered by a specialty shop featuring “premium rice” in pursuit of better tasting and healthier varieties, a decision that would have been unlikely before the coronavirus pandemic struck. “My children have taken online classes and [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s exports of agricultural and livestock products advanced 7.7 percent on-year in 2020 on the back of growing demand for healthier foodstuffs amid the new coronavirus pandemic, data showed Wednesday. Outbound shipments of such goods reached a record high of US$7.5 billion last year, compared with $7 billion [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s exports of kimchi reached an all-time high in the first 10 months of 2020, data showed Wednesday, on the back of growing global demand for healthier foodstuffs amid the new coronavirus pandemic. Outbound shipments of kimchi over the January-October period of last year came to US$119 million, [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s exports of agriculture products reached an all-time high of US$7.57 billion last year on the back of strong demand for kimchi and processed foods, data showed Tuesday. The record amount represents a 7.7 percent rise from the previous year, according to data compiled by the Ministry of [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — The growing organic, non-antibiotic livestock industry continues to struggle with low public awareness. The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs conducted a study of 203 producers, 85 managers, 13 distributors, and 206 consumers between August and November, among whom only 53 percent of consumers had knowledge about organic, [...]
JEJU, Dec. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Jeju Black cattle have turned out to have superiority in terms of both nutrition and taste compared to other cattle breeds. Jeju National University’s Jeju Black Cattle Research Center said Thursday it had succeeded in proving the nutritional superiority of Jeju Black cattle through a comparison of amino acids [...]