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http://dx.doi.org/10.11625/KJOA.2013.21.2.233

A Survey on the Recognition of Korean Farmers for the Safety of Environment-friendly Organic Materials  

Paik, Min-Kyoung (농촌진흥청 국립농업과학원 농산물안전성부 화학물질안전과)
Lee, Je-Bong (농촌진흥청 국립농업과학원 농산물안전성부 화학물질안전과)
Oh, Jin-A (농촌진흥청 국립농업과학원 농산물안전성부 화학물질안전과)
Kim, Min-Ju (농촌진흥청 국립농업과학원 농산물안전성부 화학물질안전과)
Kim, Sang-Su (농촌진흥청 국립농업과학원 농산물안전성부 농자재평가과)
Choi, Chil-Gu (농촌진흥청 기술협력국 기술경영과)
Kim, Do-Hoo (농촌진흥청 국립농업과학원 농산물안전성부 화학물질안전과)
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Korean Journal of Organic Agriculture / v.21, no.2, 2013 , pp. 233-246 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study was performed to investigate the recognition of Korean farmers for the safety of environment-friendly organic materials (EFOMs). The main purchase line of environment-friendly organic materials was the sustainable agriculture organizations, and decisive basis for the materials purchase was because they thought that agricultural produce cultivated with EFOMs were safe. Currently farmers obtained the most information about EFOMs through farmer's education operated by agricultural technology center. Sixty nine percent of respondents hoped that they would get the information on the website and through official education opened by of the government or relative institutions. Whereas, only a few respondents hoped that they would get the information from the sellers. Therefore we thought that government and related institutions should operate the education program to give the sellers the scientific and accurate information about EFOMs. In addition, farmers are highly recognized the necessity of safety-related information provided by government and related institutions. Most Farmers thought that safety education for farmers using EFOMs was very important. Also, it was confirmed that farmer respondents thought to need to establish the shelf-life and user guideline and to label about toxic category of EFOMs. The Cronbach' alpha coefficient calculated in order to verify the reliability of survey questions was 0.699. That value indicates that responses of the respondents in this study might be reliable.
Keywords
environment-friendly organic materials; farmers; recognition; safety;
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