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 [...]
SEOUL, Sep. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – A highly concentrated red tide killed more than 1.2 million fish during the Chuseok holidays in coastal waters off South Gyeongsang Province. From September 2 when an red tide alert was issued until now, fish farms including Namhae-gun, Goseong-gun and gulfs of Tongyeong lost approximately 1.2 million red sea-bream and rockfish, making [...]
![[Quote] Minister Shea Promotes Canadian Seafood Products in the Republic of Korea](http://koreabizwire.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/The-Honourable-Gail-Shea-Minister-of-Fisheries-and-Oceans-Canada-800x521.jpg "[Quote] Minister Shea Promotes Canadian Seafood Products in the Republic of Korea")
“I was proud to meet with stakeholders in South Korea to promote our world-class aquaculture and seafood products. Since 2006, it has been a priority for our Government to open new markets for Canadian products. By eliminating high tariffs on fish and seafood products, our free trade agreement with the Republic of Korea will significantly [...]
SEOUL, Sep. 1 (Korea Bizwire) – The Rural Development Administration (RDA) is stepping up efforts to develop and commercialize highly efficient animal farms that meet the criteria to accredit animal welfare livestock farms. An animal welfare livestock farm is the system to certify a livestock farm that raises livestock according to the high-level animal protection and [...]
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 [...]