South Korea: Summer cabbage will disappear in 60 years and kiwis will be grown nationwide

(Jeonju = Yonhap News) Reporter Lim Chae-du = How will the topography of crop cultivation on the Korean Peninsula change in 60 to 80 years? On the 4th, the Rural Development Administration released a 'climatological change in cultivation area forecast' showing that kiwi and warm-season garlic will be able to be cultivated in most areas of the country in the future. This analysis used the Rural Development Administration's plantation forecast climate change scenario, which was recognized as a 'national climate change standard scenario' by the Korea Meteorological Administration last month. As a result of the forecast, it was predicted that the cultivation area of kiwi, which had been cultivated in some areas of the southern coast for the past 30 years, would expand nationwide, excluding parts of Gangwon-do, by 2090. Warm-season garlic, grown in the southern coast and Jeju Island, is expected to be cultivated nationwide in the 2100s, like kiwi. The Rural Development Administration ...