SEJONG, Mar. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – A recent analysis by Statistics Korea has unveiled revealing insights into the nation’s breakfast habits and rice consumption patterns. The findings, published in the spring issue of “Statistics Plus,” indicate that nearly 30% of Koreans skip breakfast, while rice intake is higher at restaurants compared to home-cooked meals, with older [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s rice paddy area decreased 2.6 percent in 2023 from a year earlier amid a reduction in domestic consumption, data showed Tuesday. The country’s rice cultivation area came to 708,041 hectares, compared with 727,054 hectares tallied a year earlier, according to the data compiled by Statistics Korea. South [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s total arable land decreased for the 10th consecutive year in 2022 as people consumed less rice, leading to an overall contraction of rice paddies, data showed Monday. The country’s arable land totaled 1.52 million hectares — slightly bigger than the size of the U.S. state of Connecticut [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The government’s major policies have come under fire due to their potential impact on the South Korean agricultural industry. One such policy involves the slaughter of a large number of cows to lower the wholesale price of Korean beef, while another seeks to remove Shindongjin, a top-quality rice variety, [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — South Koreans’ consumption of rice hit an all-time low in 2022 due mainly to changes in diet and eating habits, data showed Friday. The average South Korean consumed 56.7 kilograms of rice last year, down 0.4 percent, or 0.2 kilogram, from the previous year, according to the data compiled [...]
Salina, Kansas, USA, Nov. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Over 70% of the food calories that feed humanity come from annual grain crops, which occupy 60–80% of global croplands. But annual grain dominance may be changing. A study in the journal Nature Sustainability reports that a new high-yielding, long-lived perennial rice with significant environmental, economic, and social sustainability [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s rice output fell 3 percent this year from a year earlier due to a sharp drop in precipitation and lack of sunny days, data showed Tuesday. The country’s rice production came to 3.76 million tons this year, falling from 3.88 million tons tallied in 2021, according to [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s rice paddy area inched down 0.7 percent in 2022 from last year as farmers opted to grow other crops due to falling prices of the staple grain, data showed Tuesday. The country’s rice cultivation area came to 727,158 hectares — slightly more than half the size of [...]
SEOUL, March 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Rice farmers in South Korea posted the largest net profit in 20 years in 2021 thanks mainly to favorable weather conditions, data showed Wednesday. Rice farmers’ net income reached some 502,000 won (US$414.2) per 1,000-square-meter paddy last year, up 13.4 percent from a year earlier, according to the data [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s total arable land dropped for the ninth consecutive year in 2021 as rice paddies shrank amid falling consumption of rice, data showed Friday. The country’s arable land totaled 1.55 million hectares — slightly more than three times the size of the U.S. state of Delaware — as [...]