Kimchi, a well-known cuisine in South Korea, is suffering from rising temperatures, according to experts, farmers, and manufacturers.
Napa cabbage is most often grown in mountainous regions where the temperature during the crucial summer growing season after only a few degrees above 25C. According to research, warmer wind brought on by climate change is now a threat to these harvests. According to statistics from the government statistics agency, the region of northern broccoli grown last year was 3, 995 acres, compared to 8, 796 acres, which is less than half of what it was 20 years ago. According to the Rural Development Administration, a express gardening thinktank, climate change situations project the cultivated area to reduce dramatically in the next 25 years to only 44 hectares, with no broccoli grown in the highlands by 2090.
” We hope these predictions do n’t come to pass”, plant pathologist and virologist Lee Young-gyu said. Spicy, spiced kimchi is made from various vegetables, but the most common remains cabbage-based.
The grain contraction is attributed to higher temperatures, unexpected storms, and parasites that become more difficult to control in warmer climates. ” Kimchi is something we cannot not have on the table”, said farmer Kim Si-gap ( 71 ).
