Pig and dairy farms are the first in South Korea to receive low-carbon certification

(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Jeon Jae-hoon = The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs announced on the 10th that pig and dairy farms have received low-carbon certification for the first time in Korea. The low-carbon livestock product certification system is a system in which the Livestock Product Quality Evaluation Institute certifies when one or more low-carbon livestock technologies are utilized in the production process to reduce average greenhouse gas emissions by 10% or more for each livestock type. The farms that received low-carbon certification this time are 91 in total, including 44 pig farms, 24 dairy farms, and 23 Korean beef farms. This is the first time that pig and dairy farms have received low-carbon certification. Last year, 71 Korean beef farms received low-carbon certification. According to the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, the pig farms that received certification this time reduced greenhouse gas emissions by an average of 29% ...