SEOUL, Jan. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s imports of Vietnamese agricultural and livestock products jumped 34 percent two years after the two nations’ bilateral free trade deal came into force, data showed Sunday. Two-way trade between the two countries has risen since the deal went into effect in December 2015, making Vietnam the fourth-largest [...]
SEJONG, Jan. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s exports of agricultural products and food increased 5.6 percent in 2017 on upbeat sales of fresh fruits and ramyeon, offsetting sluggish poultry sales in the wake of bird flu outbreaks, the government said Thursday. South Korea exported US$6.83 billion worth of agricultural products and food last year, [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – The government has set lofty goals for the South Korean seed industry in its latest five-year plan. The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs (MAFRA) revealed on January 3 that it had completed an industry blueprint for 2018 through 2022. The Seed Industry Act was first passed into [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – Until last year, Seoul’s Yeongdeungpo District collected the fallen leaves on the ground and converted them into compost. As part of a project launched in 2015, the district office considered the idea to be a three-pronged approach: it would reduce the amount of dead vegetation requiring disposal, reduce the [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — U.S. beef has gained a bigger presence in South Korea’s imported beef market this year helped by a bilateral free trade pact, achieving a share of over 50 percent, a trade agency said Monday. In the January-October period, U.S. beef imports reached US$989 million, accounting for 50.7 percent of [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean agricultural cooperative is pushing to introduce a vending machine selling livestock products, such as pork and beef, targeting the increasing number of single-person households in the country, industry sources said Friday. The National Agricultural Cooperative Federation, known as Nonghyup here, will first showcase the dispenser at [...]
SEJONG, Nov. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s rice output fell to the lowest level in nearly 40 years in 2017 amid the government’s efforts to tackle the yearslong oversupply of the staple grain, data showed Tuesday. The country’s rice production reached 3.97 million tons this year, down 5.3 percent from 4.2 million tons produced [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will reduce sampling inspections carried out on U.S. beef after no unauthorized materials that pose health risks have been found in products over the last five months, the agriculture ministry said Thursday. Currently, 30 percent of U.S. beef is subject to a sample physical check as the [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s rice output is expected to drop below the 4 million-ton mark for the first time in over three decades, due mainly to bad weather conditions in the harvest season, government data showed Tuesday. The country’s rice production is expected to come to 3.96 million tons this year, [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – A new technology has been developed that enables speedy manufacturing of vaccine seed viruses for foot and mouth disease, regardless of the type. A research team led by Park Jong-hyeon at the Animal and Plant Quarantine Agency (APQA) said that it had succeeded in creating a gene substitution system [...]