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Korean Gov’t to Buy New Rice in Preemptive Measure to Curb Oversupply

SEOUL, Oct. 15 (Korea Bizwire) – The government has decided to intervene in South Korea’s rice market as it announced it would purchase up to 180,000 tons of rice to ensure a stable national supply, its first move since 2010. Growing worries that a bumper crop of rice and a decline in rice consumption may [...]

RDA Scientists Come up with New Pest-killing Rice Variety

SUWON, South Korea, Oct 10 (Korea Bizwire) — The Rural Development Administration said on October 9 that its agronomic scientists have developed a new rice variety naturally resistant to the rice water weevil, an insect pest that is known to attack stored rice and rice crops. Rice water weevils are difficult pests to eradicate as the [...]