SACHEON, June 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Miniature-sized watermelons grown from suspended pots will soon be made available for South Korean consumers. Gyeongnam Sacheon Agricultural Development & Technology Center will begin selling fun-size watermelons grown via nutriculture through stores of the National Agricultural Cooperative Federation, better known as Nonghyup, in the southeastern city of Sacheon. These [...]
SEOUL, April 17 (Korea Bizwire) — 1 in 3 residents of rural regions are more than 70 years old, showing signs of an accelerating aging population, a recent study showed. Statistics Koreas announced Thursday that there are 1.36 million senior residents over 60 years of age living in rural areas, comprising 60.6 percent of the [...]
ANDONG, March 12 (Korea Bizwire) — With a growing number of seasonal migrant workers wary of coming to South Korea due to the spread of the novel coronavirus infection, securing workers in farming areas is becoming a serious challenge. North Gyeongsang Province was initially allocated 765 seasonal workers from Vietnam, the Philippines and Cambodia in [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Government action is being called for as hundreds of bears raised on farms for bile harvesting are living under extremely poor conditions. The Korea Animal Welfare Association (KAWA) and Project Moon Bear, at a joint press conference held in Seoul on Wednesday, reported that there are currently 479 bears [...]
SEJONG, Jul. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Some insects will be classified as “livestock” and farms that raise such insects will be able to receive various benefits for breeding them. The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs said Wednesday that it has revised the enforcement regulation of the livestock law to recognize insects as livestock [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Four died and nine were injured in a car accident in which a van overturned on a road in Samcheok, Gangwon Province, on Monday. Among the 16 passengers in the vehicle, nine of them were foreign workers. They were on a six-hour trip to Bonghwa, North Gyeongsang Province, to work [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean Ministry of Justice said on Sunday that it will be providing 2,597 foreign seasonal workers to 41 local authorities across the nation. Foreign seasonal workers, holders of C-4 short-term working visas, will be coming to South Korea to work at designated farms for a maximum duration [...]
CHUNCHEON, Dec. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — The city of Chuncheon, Gangwon Province has decided to hire more foreign workers to assist farmers during the farming season after receiving satisfactory feedback from farmers who participated in a similar project this year. The program hires temporary foreign workers who, after entering South Korea, are sent to local [...]
CHICAGO, Sept. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — PureCircle (LSE: PURE), the world’s leading producer and innovator of stevia sweeteners, and its North Carolina farmer partners are about to harvest the company’s first commercial-scale crop of Starleaf™ stevia grown in the U.S. PureCircle’s proprietary Starleaf stevia contains more of the best-tasting stevia sweeteners, such as Reb M, [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – In the wake of South Korea’s pesticide egg scandal, popular unrest and indignation has fomented a change in attitudes that may not have been possible in ordinary times. As of the date of this article, none other than the president has spoken out about the need for reform. Reform [...]