Embrapa prepares Brazilian soybean tailored for South Korean food

Representatives from São Paulo of the Korea Agro-Fisheries & Food and Trade Corporation (aT), a public food importing company for South Korea, visited trials of Value for Cultivation and Use (VCU) of conventional soybean materials from Embrapa at Fazenda Dourados, part of the Recanto Group, in Paracatu, Minas Gerais, last Thursday (28). Currently, South Korea consumes around 360 thousand tons of soybeans per year for food use. In 2024, aT signed a memorandum of understanding to establish a partnership with Embrapa Cerrados and the Cerrados Foundation for the development of high-yield non-transgenic soybean cultivars that serve as the basis for the manufacture of food products, mainly tofu, fermented soybean paste (doenjang), and soy milk. The Korean company has been importing the grains from the United States and now wants to diversify suppliers. Thus, aT initially sent grains from five lines for laboratory tests in the Asian country. “We produced tofu from the five samples of ...