SEOUL, Jan. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — South Koreans’ consumption of rice hit an all-time low in 2021, but the decreasing rate slowed on the back of a growing demand for home meals amid the COVID-19 pandemic, data showed Thursday. The average South Korean consumed 56.9 kilograms of rice last year, down 1.4 percent or 0.8 [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s rice output rose for the first time in six years due mainly to favorable weather conditions and an increase in the cultivation area, data showed Monday. The country’s rice production reached 3.88 million tons in 2021, up 10.7 percent from a record low of 3.51 million tons [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — A new technology has been developed that makes it easier to measure the acreage of rice plants that have been damaged due to rain or wind. The Korea Seed and Variety Service on Thursday demonstrated technology that can automatically measure the acreage of damaged rice plants using a drone [...]
NAJU, June 22 (Korea Bizwire) — A new cultivar of rice has been developed to better withstand the summer monsoon season, with distribution to farmers likely to begin soon. South Jeolla Province Agricultural Research and Extension Services is currently in the final stages of developing ‘Gangdaechan,’ a new variety of rice soon to replace the [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — South Koreans’ consumption of rice hit a record low in 2020, data showed Thursday, due mainly to changes in diet and eating habits. The average South Korean consumed 57.7 kilograms of rice in 2020, down 2.5 percent or 1.5 kilograms from the previous year, the Ministry of Agriculture, Food [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s rice output fell to the lowest level in 52 years in 2020 as a record-long rainy season and typhoons in the summer hampered production, data showed Thursday. The country’s rice production came to 3.51 million tons this year, down 6.4 percent from 3.74 million tons last year, [...]
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 [...]
SUWON, March 5 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent study has determined that rice cooked with cast iron cookware contains about seven times more iron than rice cooked in a rice cooker or other more conventional cookware. The Gyeonggi Institute of Health Environment analyzed iron content by making rice with nine cooking vessels sold at department [...]
SEJONG, Feb. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s total arable land dropped 0.9 in 2019 from a year earlier as some rice paddies gave way to residential areas and public facilities, data showed Monday. The country’s arable land totaled 1.58 million hectares last year, down 15,000 hectares from the previous year, according to the data [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s per capita annual rice consumption fell to a record low in 2019 amid changes in diet and eating habits, data showed Thursday. Per capita average annual rice consumption hit a fresh low of 59.2 kilograms last year, down 3 percent from a year earlier, according to the [...]