International Corn Foundation supplies 500,000 corn seeds to Afghanistan

Published May 13, 2024

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The International Corn Foundation and Handong University, led by Chairman Kim Soon-kwon, have donated 500,000 corn seeds to Afghanistan. The variety, Honey chodang corn, is a sweet, super sweet corn variety that was bred in Korea in the early 2000s. The foundation also provided cultivation training to Afghan corn researchers via video conference. The donation is aimed at providing nutrition to women and children in Afghanistan, and the foundation plans to extend this donation to North Korea as well.

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(Pohang = Yonhap News) Reporter Dae-seong Son = The International Corn Foundation and Handong University announced on the 13th that they provided 500,000 corn seeds for Afghan residents. The Chairman of the Corn Foundation is Kim Soon-kwon, a distinguished professor at Handong University, who is well known as Dr. Corn. The foundation secured 500,000 honeysuckle corn seeds through its own fundraising and sent them to Afghanistan last month. Honey chodang corn is so named because it is sweet and delicious like honey, and can be eaten raw 20 days after flowering. This corn is an American-type super sweet corn (super sweet corn) that was successfully bred for the first time in Korea at Kyungpook National University in the early 2000s, and is commercialized and sold under the name of Kyungdae Honey Corn Hybrid. Last month, the foundation conducted cultivation training via video conference with Afghan corn researchers through the arrangement of a U.S. civic group. Chairman Kim Soon-kwon ...

Source: Yna