SEOUL, Jan. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea will strengthen hygiene regulations on poultry farms and install a livestock monitoring system as part of a broader effort to prevent outbreaks of highly contagious bird flu, the agriculture ministry said Monday. The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs announced a set of measures to improve [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of agricultural corporations has nearly quadrupled over the past decade, government data showed Friday, as South Korean farmers have been struggling to cope with an influx of agricultural products from overseas. The figure was 19,413 as of the end of 2016, up from 5,307 in 2006, according [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – A new companion animal safety law requiring pet owners to keep their dogs on a leash in public amid a spate of vicious dog attacks in recent months is already being questioned over its effectiveness. According to the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs on Wednesday, a new reporting [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Wholesale prices for chicken products sold at major supermarkets and chicken franchises will be revealed to customers starting today. The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs (MAFRA) announced on its official website on Thursday it will require retail giants in the chicken industry to state wholesale prices in [...]
SEJONG, Aug. 30 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea will expand free range livestock husbandry in raising chickens as a way to improve food safety following the recent pesticide egg scandal that rocked the nation, the agriculture ministry said Wednesday. At the policy briefing held before President Moon Jae-in in Sejong, the Ministry of Agriculture, Food [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of Agriculture is set to look into issues of corruption surrounding the recent egg contamination scandal that swept across South Korea, after discovering some former government officials now work for private environmental certification issuers. “Once the contamination scandal calms down, we plan to look into the possible causes [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – The South Korean government said Wednesday that eggs from four more farms in the country have been found to be contaminated with harmful pesticides, escalating the health scare over tainted egg products here. Some eggs at a farm with 55,000 hens in Cheorwon, 80 kilometers north of Seoul, were [...]
SEOUL, July 3 (Korea Bizwire) – Eggs imported from Thailand arrived in South Korea on Monday, the agriculture ministry said, as the government seeks to contain rising prices amid the latest bird flu outbreak. According to the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, 650,000 eggs imported by a local company arrived in Incheon, west [...]
SEJONG, April 15 (Korea Bizwire) – South Koreans’ meat consumption has increased a large extent for the past few decades but still lags far behind the average intake of other advanced countries, a government report showed Friday. According to the report from the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, the country’s annual per-capita consumption [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Mar 28 (Korea Bizwire) – The Ministry of Agriculture, Food, and Rural Affairs and the Korea Food and Drug Administration proudly announced that, as of March 26 (local time), the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has officially approved Korea as an exporter of processed poultries which has opened up the gates for [...]