SEOUL, Feb. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – Due to climate change, apple cultivation is expected to be limited to certain areas in Gangwon province by the end of the 21st Century. According to the Rural Development Administration (RDA) on February 26, growing areas for other fruits such as pears, peaches and grapes will also decrease after 2050, [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 31 (Korea Bizwire) – The Rural Development Administration in Korea has published a comprehensive field guidebook on insects bred for industrial purposes. Although there have been publications on industrial standards for breeding insects, the newly published guidebook is the first ever to include thorough and inclusive insect data organized for diverse industrial uses. The [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – The Rural Development Administration (RDA) began offering an updated version of the smartphone application, “Dog Food Calorie Calculator” after reviewing the feedback of app users. The app, calculating the amount of food for a dog for a day based on their breeds and weight, informs the obesity of the [...]
SEOUL, July 29 (Korea Bizwire) — The Rural Development Administration (RDA) began a service offering future climate information by simply entering the number of land lot in its website(www.agdcm.kr). It opened the agro-climate map database to revitalize the usage of public data in the government 3.0 era and for individual farmers to employ it for their convenience. The [...]
SEOUL, Korea, April 4 (Korea Bizwire) – The genome big data that may catalyze the commercialization of biotechnology research such as the development of new crop varieties will be provided by a government agency. The Rural Development Administration has established a “big data information system for the genome of agricultural organisms” to be accessible on [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Mar 10, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – A research project sponsored by the Rural Development Administration is trying to break the DNA code of ginseng. Led by Professor Yang Tae-jin of Seoul National University, the next-generation gene research team is working on finding out the genetic structure of ginseng. The gene of ginseng consists [...]
SUWON, Korea, Dec 16 (Korea Bizwire) – The Rural Development Administration said on December 15 that it would make available an educational video for dog owners on how to properly care for pet dogs as a way to reduce the incidence of abandoned pets. The number of abandoned pets has steadily increased for the past several [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Nov 04 (Korea Bizwire) – The Rural Development Administration and the Ranch-type Milk Processing Research Group will jointly hold a contest to make natural cheese at the government agency’s Suwon campus on November 1. The ranch-style natural cheese-making competition has been held annually since 2006 to promote ranch-made natural cheeses and other dairy products. Natural [...]