HAENAM, Aug. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean farmers have harvested the first bananas ever to be grown in the country’s southern region. Haenam County in South Jeolla province held a banana harvesting ceremony at a local farm on Thursday, as it plans to harvest 12 tons of bananas from 0.4 hectares of land operated [...]
SEOUL, May 1 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s rural development authority announced on Wednesday the success of an experimental rice farm in Sharjah, a desert region in the United Arab Emirates, with the crop set to be harvested early this month. The Rural Development Administration (RDA) sowed Asemi, a type of rice for dry areas [...]
YEONGDONG, South Korea, Oct. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – Yeongdong County in North Chungcheong Province is often recognized by its trademark produce, persimmons. There are roughly 16,000 persimmon trees lining some 145 kilometers of the county’s roads, trees that are now bearing fruits ready for harvest. The trees started appearing in the region in the 1970s, [...]
SEJONG, Nov. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s rice production hit a six-year high in 2015 caused by greater yield per cultivated land, government data showed Friday. According to the data from Statistics Korea, South Korea produced a total of 4.32 million tons of rice this year, up 2 percent from 4.24 million tons a [...]