SEOUL, Jun. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Coffee, which has emerged as the de facto “national beverage,” has to be imported almost all of the time, but it is expected that one day Koreans will taste brews from domestic beans. The Rural Development Administration (RDA) announced on Sunday that it will conduct a study titled “Arabica [...]
SEJONG, Jun. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean Rural Development Administration (RDA) has announced the development of a trap that will allow for the easy capture of wild boars. The wild animals have been blamed for causing harm to farmland nationwide. The RDA stated that wild boars have been appearing at the nation’s farms [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean Rural Development Administration (RDA) revealed yesterday that a firm that produces pet food from edible insects will be entering the domestic animal feed market. The RDA will provide technological support so that the firm can eventually export its products. Ptecticus, the insect to be used as [...]
SEOUL, May 30 (Korea Bizwire) — The Rural Development Administration (RDA) revealed today that it has developed a flowerpot that absorbs moisture in the air to hydrate itself. An official at the agency said that many plants end up dying because people are too busy to water them in a timely manner. “That’s why we [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean cinema giant CGV is warning customers to be wary of profit-seeking scalpers with tickets for the latest Marvel movie Avengers: Infinity War in hot demand. The cinema giant released a statement on its website Thursday, saying, “Customers should be wary of resellers who purchase tickets for a certain [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – Antibodies play an essential role in the viral diagnosis of crops in Korea. The antibodies used are typically derived from blood samples of laboratory animals, such as rabbits and mice infected with a specific virus, once they are naturally produced by the animals’ immune systems. This poses various setbacks. [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – Sometimes we want to stay blind to what’s in the food, drinks, and other products like cosmetics that we consume or use on a daily basis. And perhaps to shatter some of this illusion, Korea’s Rural Development Administration (RDA) has just succeeded in commercializing cosmetics using an antibiotic substance [...]
SEOUL, July 20 (Korea Bizwire) – Sales of “mini fruits” that are easy to eat and don’t require peeling, such as blueberries and cherries, are increasing among single and two-person households. According to the Rural Development Administration, which surveyed fruit consumption trends in urban households from 2010 to 2014, per capita purchases of blueberries increased by [...]
SEOUL, July 14 (Korea Bizwire) – Korean scientists have discovered a way to solve the problem of low reproduction rates of cloned dogs. Unlike cloned cows and pigs, cloned dogs were hard to cultivate with lack of proper cultivation media. On July 13, the Rural Development Administration (RDA) announced that its researchers succeeded in developing canine [...]
SEOUL, March 13 (Korea Bizwire) — The Rural Development Administration (RDA) has developed an incredibly fast and low-cost quality evaluation technology for grass forages using Near Infrared Spectroscopy (NIS), according to a statement on March 12. The current evaluation process usually takes 3 to 5 days, while it only takes 5 minutes with the newly developed NIS [...]