South Korean food and beverage company Nongshim held a groundbreaking ceremony Monday for a pilot greenhouse at the National Agricultural Research Center in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, marking a key step in Korea’s push to export agricultural technology to the Middle East.

The ceremony was attended by Vice Minister Park Beom-su of Korea’s Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs and Al Mushaiti, Saudi Arabia’s Vice Minister of Environment, Water and Agriculture.

As part of Seoul’s Smart Farm Export Promotion Program, Nongshim was selected as the lead company in a consortium of four Korean firms and will be responsible for managing the construction and operation of a smart greenhouse tailored to local conditions…