"Vacuum mills account for 65 percent of the country's total salt production, while mechanical factories refine around 25 ...

Salt is farmed in huge quantities on remote islands in South Korea. These islands are nicknamed "slave islands" by local media because the salt is often harvested by mostly mentally disabled ...

Chae, 48, one of the victims, who is mentally challenged, recounts that his ordeal started after he was introduced to the owner of a salt farm on Shinui Island off Shinan County by a job broker in ...

The target salt production is 4,000 mt more than the 6,000 mt of salt produced by the farm from the time it started its operations in November 2023 to June this year.

The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) has awarded P1 million under its Adjustment Measures Program (AMP) to Pacific Farms, Inc. to support its innovative vertical salt farming technology in ...

Far from just something we crack on our chips, salt is part of almost everything we touch. "When you go and grab your glass to put your orange juice in each morning, that glass uses salt," BCI ...

A man from the Mekong Delta’s Bac Lieu Province made a sculptural relief from 300 kg of salt to commemorate the Vietnam salt farming festival. The relief, spanning 25 m long and 5 m wide, features ...

Though the taxes are removed from salt, the Agarias (agar means “salt farm”), who are a denotified tribe, are conveniently forgotten by the government. Salt prices are slashed as a mark of ...