Research
Highland Agriculture Research Institute
We are developing eco-friendly agricultural technologies to support the breeding and dissemination of potatoes and new income crops in highland areas, as well as to ensure stable production of Kimchi cabbage in summer season.
We are developing eco-friendly agricultural technologies to support the breeding and dissemination of potatoes and new income crops in highland areas, as well as to ensure stable production of Kimchi cabbage in summer season. - Potato breeding and dissemination for stable food supply
- Table potato varieties to replace old variety 'Sumi': 'Seonpung', 'Geumseon', 'Golden Ball'
- Geumseon: Mealy potato type with excellent taste; can be cultivated twice a year, enabling year-round supply
- Seonpung: Higher yield (25%↑) and enhanced tolerance to physiological tuber disorders(e.g. malformation) compared to 'Sumi'
- Golden Ball : Yellow-flesh and skin potato with high temperature and drought tolerance and low browning after peeling
- Multi-purpose processing varieties for industrial usage: 'High Chip', 'Golden Egg', 'Eunseon'
- Supply of regionally specialized potatoes: Pyeongchang/Chuncheon 'Golden Ball', Buan/Boseong 'Geumseon'
- Table potato varieties to replace old variety 'Sumi': 'Seonpung', 'Geumseon', 'Golden Ball'
- Breeding and dissemination of new income crops with high-functionality in off-season
- Development and dissemination of high-functionality/processing buckwheat varieties: Tatary buckwheat 'Hwanggeum Miso', etc
- Breeding and dissemination of ever-bearing strawberry varieties in off-Season with high-income: 'Goseul', 'Miha', etc
- Development of soil and pest management technologies for stable crop production in highland areas
- Development of soil conservation and fertilizer use efficiency improvement technologies in sloped land to reduce environmental load
- Maximum yield using slow-release fertilizer treatment at 1.4 times the standard N recommendation and labor saving by reducing additional fertilization up to 2–3 times
- Development of Verticillium Wilt control technology in Kimchi cabbage in highland areas using soil fumigation and microbial compost
- Over 90% of marketable yield in the farm field trial; disease control efficiencty: combined treatment (70.1%) > soil fumigation (51.6%) > microbial compost (50.1%)
- Expansion of microbial compost distribution to farms: (2024) 40 ha → (2025) 618 ha; technology transfer to 8 companies, 9 products including ‘Haneul Gyebun’
- Development of soil conservation and fertilizer use efficiency improvement technologies in sloped land to reduce environmental load
