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 [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s outbound shipments of processed rice products shot up last year amid the booming popularity of Korean dramas, K-pop and other cultural assets abroad, data showed Thursday. Exports of these products reached US$106 million in 2019, marking a sharp rise from $89 million posted a year earlier, according [...]
SEJONG, Oct. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s per capita annual rice consumption fell an average 2.3 percent annually over the past three decades, data showed Thursday. Per capita average annual rice consumption hit a record low of 61 kilograms in 2018, compared with a record high of 136.4 kilograms in 1970, according to the [...]
SUWON, Mar. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Drones are expected to soon become the new ‘right hand’ of farming in South Korea. The Gyeonggi-do Agricultural Research & Extension Services invited 100 agricultural experts and farmers on Wednesday to conduct a demonstration of rice cropping using drones. The institution is also responsible for studying and educating farmers [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Per capita rice consumption in South Korea dropped to a record low in 2018, data showed Monday, although the rate of decrease slowed compared with recent years on the back of the popularity of ready-to-eat meals. According to the data by Statistics Korea, the average annual consumption of rice [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — One third of the smartphone applications released by government entities falling under the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs (MAFRA) have been discontinued. According to MAFRA data submitted to Rep. Lee Man-hee of the Liberty Korea Party, a total of 109 smartphone apps were released by 16 government [...]