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 [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s rice output fell to the lowest level in 52 years in 2020 as a record-long rainy season and typhoons in the summer hampered production, data showed Thursday. The country’s rice production came to 3.51 million tons this year, down 6.4 percent from 3.74 million tons last year, [...]
BORYEONG, Oct. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — An innovative smart farm system has been developed that allows workers to cultivate and harvest crops and vegetables from the comfort of a chair or while standing up without the need to move around inside a greenhouse. Korea Farm Agricultural Corp. announced that it had developed a new smart farm [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s outbound shipments of agricultural products rose nearly 5 percent on-year in the first eight months of 2020, data showed Thursday, helped by the rising demand for instant products amid the new coronavirus pandemic. Exports of agricultural goods, which include processed foodstuffs, reached US$4.8 billion in the January-August [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea said Wednesday that it will speed up efforts to supply the “heukdon” breed of pigs to local farms to meet rising demand for premium pork products in the country. “Local consumers’ demand for premium pork products has been increasing recently, leading to a hike in imports of [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea said Monday it has completed negotiations with Vietnam to ship paprika, a type of bell pepper, to the Southeast Asian country. Seoul had been negotiating with Hanoi since 2008 on export terms for paprika, whose outbound shipments currently depend heavily on neighboring Japan, according to the Ministry [...]