South Korea: Jeju considers ‘green onion’ as new income crop

Published Sep 27, 2024

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The Jeju Special Self-Governing Province Agricultural Technology Center is considering the potential of 'chicken greens' (chives) to become a new income crop in Jeju. The plan includes investigating hydroponic cultivation of chives, which could be harvested six times a year and could contribute significantly to increasing farm income. The center will also analyze and digitize the benefits of hydroponic cultivation and use the data to promote the technology. Currently, the total area of chive cultivation in Jeju is 455 ha, with bulb chives being the main production in the eastern part of the island. However, farm income is unstable due to environmental changes, leading to the consideration of leaf chives as a new income crop.

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The possibility of 'chicken greens' becoming a new income crop in Jeju is being reviewed. The Jeju Special Self-Governing Province Agricultural Technology Center (Director Seung-Hyeon Kim) announced that it plans to examine the possibility of greenhouse vegetable hydroponic cultivation and income generation targeting chives, a major crop in the eastern region. According to the Eastern Agricultural Technology Center, as of 2022, the total area of chive cultivation in Jeju is 455 ha, including 272 ha of leaf chives and 183 ha of bulb chives. In the eastern part of Jeju, bulb chives are mainly produced, but there is a problem that farm income is unstable due to the significant impact of environmental changes such as weather. Accordingly, the Eastern Agricultural Technology Center is planning to foster leaf chives as a new income crop through hydroponic cultivation. While field cultivation of green onions takes 40 to 50 days from sowing to harvest, hydroponic cultivation can be ...

Source: Agrinet