Korea

Korean Gap Trends Focused on Environmentally and Consumer Friendly Food Production

Hwang-Yong Kim
ABSTRACT Korean GAP certification system plays an important role in the consumer-friendly and eco-friendly development of Korean agriculture. It was established in 2006. Since then the number of certified farms has been continuously increased. In 2017, it exceeded 86,000, which is approximately 8....
Country: Korea Topic: Food security and safety
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Recent Farm Economy in Korea: Situation and Implications

ChanHee Rhew, Hongseok Seo, Taehoo Kim
INTRODUCTION Farm economy in Korea has long been said to suffer from “double squeezing” in lowered revenue along with increased operation costs, which is believed to have a negative impact on the sector’s long-term sustainability and re-productivity. In addition, a sign of income equality being...
Country: Korea Topic: Regional agricultural economy
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The 3rd Food Industry Promotion Basic Plan - Proposing the vision of innovative growth in the food industry responsible for the health and well-being of the people –

Byoung-Hoon Lee
  ABSTRACT   The “Food industry promotion basic plan” is a mid-to long-term legally mandated plan which is established every five years, and is based on the ‘food industry promotion act’ which aims to strengthen competitiveness of the food industry and to promote the industry....
Country: Korea Topic: New paradigm of agriculture
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An Introduction of the Agency for Food Industry Information Analysis (AFIA) Project of Korea

Sanghyo Kim
The AFIA project, which was launched in 2016 by the Ministry of Agriculture, Food, and Rural Affairs of Korea, is a information-providing food industry policy that is worthy of reference. In particular, This project is going to be introduced at this point in 2019, as it has undergone a significant...
Country: Korea Topic: Agricultural marketing policy
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Smart Farm Policy in Korea

Byoung-Hoon Lee
INTRODUCTION The Smart Farm government policy started with the rapid opening of the oversea market with trading economies such as the US and the EU has progressed rapidly. In the agricultural sector, since 2004, R & D for agricultural and ICT convergence has expanded and begun to pursue...
Country: Korea Topic: Smart agriculture
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