DAEJEON, Nov. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean scientist has found that not only fishery products but also agricultural crops absorb microplastics. Yoon Hak-won, a researcher at the Korea Institute of Toxicology, cultivated the cabbage family plant Arabidopsis (rockcress) for 21 days on soil contaminated with heavy metal cadmium and polystyrene plastic and observed [...]
SINAN, Nov. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Sinan County in South Jeolla Province has been engaged in a special experiment in which sun-dried salt is added to water and sprayed on crops. This experiment turned out to have generated the effect of killing two birds with one stone. Namely, it contributed to enhancing pest control, while [...]
SEOUL, June 4 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government’s Hangang Project Headquarters announced on Wednesday that it has decided to donate agricultural crops such as canola, rye and barley cultivated at parks along the Han River to the Seoul Grand Park Zoo and social welfare organizations. The Hangang Project Headquarters have cultivated agricultural crops [...]
Boston, Nov. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Catastrophe risk modeling firm AIR Worldwide (AIR) today announced that it has released a Multiple Peril Crop Insurance (MPCI) Model for India to help support probabilistic assessments of potential losses caused by yield shortfalls for 11 major crops across the two main Indian crop-growing seasons. AIR Worldwide is a [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — The government has developed for the first time a smart irrigation system that identifies the bio-response of local crops and supplies water through artificial intelligence (AI). Created by the Rural Development Administration (RDA), the new smart irrigation system diagnoses the bio-response of crops according to weather changes with imaging [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Over the past 38 years, the total income of farmers who grow peaches and onions has increased the most, a recent report has revealed. According to Statistics Korea’s survey of the total income changes for growers of 17 major crops between 1980 and 2018, peaches, with an average annual [...]
TAEAN, Feb. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — A farm in Taean County, South Chungcheong Province is at the center of attention for a new aquaponics system that uses organic materials from fish farms to grow crops. ‘Seouchae Farm’ in Taean’s Namsan-ri Village grows vegetables in a 1,000㎡ greenhouse using an eco-friendly aquaponics system that does not [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – Antibodies play an essential role in the viral diagnosis of crops in Korea. The antibodies used are typically derived from blood samples of laboratory animals, such as rabbits and mice infected with a specific virus, once they are naturally produced by the animals’ immune systems. This poses various setbacks. [...]