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Monitoring and Risk Assessment of Pesticide Residues Farmers' Market Produce in Northern Gyeonggi-do (경기 북부 내 직거래 농산물의 잔류농약 실태조사 및 위해성 평가)

  • Lim, Jeong-Hwa;Park, Po-Hyun;Lim, Bu-Geon;Ryu, Kyong-Shin;Kang, Min-Seong;Song, Seo-Hyeon;Kang, Nam-Hee;Yoo, Na-Young;Kim, Jeong-Eun;Kang, Choong-Won;Kim, Youn-Ho;Seo, Jeong-Hwa;Choi, Ok-Kyung;Yoon, Mi-Hye
    • Journal of Food Hygiene and Safety
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    • v.35 no.3
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    • pp.243-251
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    • 2020
  • In this study, we investigated pesticide residues in 207 agricultural products distributed by direct trade in the northern area of Gyeonggi Province. A total of 94 general agricultural products and 113 eco-friendly agricultural products collected from local grocers and cooperative stores were analyzed by multiresidue method for 263 pesticides using GC (gas chromatography)/ECD (electron capture detector), GC/NPD (nitrogen phosphorus detector), GC-MS/MS (tandem mass spectrometry), LC (liquid chromatography)/PDA (photodiode array detector), LC/FLD (fluorescence detector), LC-MS/MS. All samples showing pesticide residues were general agricultural products collected from local food stores. The pesticide residue levels of 14 samples (6.8%) were below the maximum residue limits (MRLs) and one of them (0.5%) exceeded the MRLs. Sixteen pesticides were detected from samples of the following produce items: spinach, young cabbage, perilla leaves, mallow, cucumber, chives and water dropwort. The safety of the detected pesticides was assessed by monitoring the daily intake estimate (EDI) and the daily intake allowance (ADI) based on the amount of pesticides detected. The ADI percentage range (the ratio of EDI to ADI) was 0.0134-61.6259% and there was no health risk connected with consuming agricultural products in which pesticide residues were detected.

A Study on Consumers' Purchasing Behavior and Perception of the Low-carbon Certificated Agricultural Products (소비자의 저탄소 인증 농산물 구매행태 및 인식에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Choon-Soo;Yang, Hun-Min
    • Korean Journal of Organic Agriculture
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    • v.29 no.3
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    • pp.333-358
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    • 2021
  • This study investigates consumers' purchasing behavior and perception of the low-carbon certificated agricultural product. To this end, we surveyed 1,000 consumers and the main findings are as follows. First, Even after six years of national certification, it is important to promote the low-carbon certification system due to insufficient awareness and purchase experience. Second, the certificated area is small at around 5% of the area of environment-friendly agricultural products and GAP certification, and certification is concentrated on fruit trees. Third, an appropriate level of high-priced strategy can be useful considering the cost of low-carbon certification, image management of low-carbon certificated agricultural products, and quality is the most important factor for consumers to consider when purchasing fresh agricultural products. Fourth, consumers recognized that the contribution of low carbon certification in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and preserving the environment was higher than that of environment-friendly agricultural products or GAP certification. Considering that, promotional activities linked to environment-friendly agricultural products and GAP certification may be effective when promoting low-carbon certification. Finally, the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs is implementing a carbon point system linked to Green Card to revitalize low carbon certification, but 25.7% of consumers are aware of it, and 8.4% have little experience in issuing it.

Analysis of Purchasing Attributes for Consumption Activation of Environment-friendly Agricultural Processed Foods (친환경농산물 가공식품 소비 활성화를 위한 구매속성 분석)

  • Hwang, Jeong-seo;Jung, Da-Eun
    • Korean Journal of Organic Agriculture
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    • v.31 no.1
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    • pp.29-44
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    • 2023
  • The activation of consumption of environment-friendly agricultural processed foods means not only the growth of environment-friendly agriculture, but also the development of related industries. Therefore, it is necessary to identify and apply the needs and purchasing attributes of environment-friendly agricultural processed food consumers. For this, survey was conducted to adult men and women in their 20s and 60s and a total of 200 copies were used for empirical analysis. In this study, the average difference between importance-satisfaction for purchase attributes of environment-friendly agricultural processed food was verified, and the IPA Matrix was prepared based on this. As a result, in terms of purchasing importance and satisfaction, it was found that those with no experience in purchasing environment-friendly agricultural processed foods regarded product, price, place, promotion as more important than those with experience in purchasing. In case of IPA, product and price factors were all important and satisfactory regardless of purchasing experience. On the other hand, it was found that the key factors for promotion were neither important nor satisfied with consumers regardless of their purchasing experience. Therefore, it is mainly necessary to focus on marketing and mass media promotion. At the same time, various domestic and foreign best practices should be benchmarked and a 4P marketing strategy should be established and promoted.

Determination of the Contents of Apigenin and Luteolin in Vegetables (유통 채소류의 아피제닌 및 루테올린 함량 조사)

  • Kang, Kyung-Ja;Kim, Beom-Ho;Kim, Dae-hwan;Yun, Hee-Jeong;Cho, Young-Sun;Han, Na-Eun;Choi, Jong-Chul;Lee, Sung-nam;Choi, Ok-Kyung
    • The Korean Journal of Food And Nutrition
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    • v.34 no.2
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    • pp.233-241
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    • 2021
  • The purpose of this study was to investigate the contents of apigenin and luteolin in vegetables mainly distributed and consumed in Korea. In this study, the contents of apigenin, apigenin-7-O-glucoside, luteolin, and luteolin-7-O-glucoside in vegetables were surveyed by using liquid chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS). According to the analysis of 27 items (91 samples) in vegetables, the content of total apigenin (the sum of apigenin and apigenin-7-O-glucoside) was quantified in 8 out of the 27 items in vegetables, followed by pepper leaves, parsley, celery, chamnamul, foremost mugwort, and perilla leaves. The content of total luteolin (the sum of luteolin and luteolin-7-O-glucoside) was found in 11 of the 27 items in vegetables, followed by pepper leaves, dandelion, celery, red lettuce, foremost mugwort, and perilla leaves. Celery was divided into stalks and leaves for comparing the contents of apigenin and luteolin. Celery showed higher contents of apigenin and luteolin in leaves than in stalks.

Design and Implementation of AIGT System for Safety Certification of Agricultural Products (농산물 안전인증을 위한 AIGT 시스렘의 설계 및 구현)

  • Jung Hoe-Kyung;Yu Seong-Jae;Kim Ki-Tae;Min Byung-Hun
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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    • v.10 no.7
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    • pp.1246-1252
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    • 2006
  • Recently, customers interest increase in the agricultural product safety when receiving the many information about food problem due to the development of media. Such amid, domestic agricultural environment don't have a system that safety certification of agricultural product. At this rate, domestic agricultural products will decrease the competitive power and apprehend by the giving a market to foreign agricultural product. In this paper, we designed and implementation of AIGT system for the improvement of agricultural environment to producing the agricultural product safety and customers' reliability increase to offering clear information. Also, we defined the right data structure for agricultural environment. The monitoring and video conference are imported for efficient improvement of environment.

A Study on the Environmental-Based Turning Characteristics of Multi-Purpose Agricultural Robots (다목적 농업 로봇의 농작업 환경 기반 선회 특성 연구)

  • Lee, Ji-Won;Kang, Minsu;Park, Huichang;Cho, Yongjun;Oh, Jangseok;Kim, Min-Gyu;Seo, Kap-Ho;Park, Min-Ro
    • The Journal of Korea Robotics Society
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    • v.16 no.4
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    • pp.319-326
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    • 2021
  • To improve the driving performance and work efficiency of the multi-purpose agricultural robot, this paper conducted a study on the turning and steering characteristics of the robot platform according to the characteristics of the working machine coupled to the multi-purpose agricultural robot considering the agricultural environment. First, the size and characteristics of the developed multi-purpose agricultural robot platform and working machine, and the targeted field farming work environment are analyzed. And based on this analysis, the problems that arise in multi-purpose robots with conventional turning methods are quantitatively presented. And to overcome this problem, an improved turning and steering method for multi-purpose agricultural robots is proposed considering the characteristics of various workstations and the agricultural working environment. Finally, by applying the proposed method, the turning characteristics of the multi-purpose agricultural robot according to the working machine are analyzed and the effectiveness of the proposed method is verified.

The Impact of the Relationships among the Motivation, Benefits and Satisfaction derived from Rural Outdoor Recreation for Urban Residents (도시민의 농촌 야외여가활동의 동기, 여가혜택과 만족간의 영향 관계)

  • Son, Ho Gi;Jo, Lock Hwan;Lee, Jung Eun;Kang, Myeong Bo
    • The Korean Journal of Community Living Science
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    • v.27 no.4
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    • pp.739-753
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    • 2016
  • This study was performed to identify the tendency and benefits of outdoor recreation in rural areas. The preferences and importance of the benefits of outdoor recreation activities in rural areas were simultaneously compared and analyzed through the discussion of a four quadrants portfolio map using importance-performance analysis. The social benefits in quadrant i had the characteristics of 'sharing nice experiences with others', 'having contact/interchange with others', 'colleagueship/helping each other', 'being together with friends', and 'making new friends.' These social benefit types were perceived as very important characteristics, but the real level of achievement was rather low. Thus it seems necessary, in the process of program development, to apply the social benefit types to the characteristics of the participants. The experience of nature and relaxation benefits in quadrant ii had the characteristics of 'relaxation and recreation', 'understanding nature', 'nature experience', 'getting away from everyday life', and 'experiencing new things.' These benefits and experience of nature were regarded as very important characteristics by the participants in outdoor recreation and, at the same time, their real achievements were highly recognized, thus they seemed to be proper types for the goals involved in developing an outdoor recreation activity program in rural areas. The personal and challenge benefits in quadrant iv had the characteristics of 'training of mental ability', 'improvement of self-esteem', 'fitness', 'increase in determination', 'possible danger', 'achievement', 'excitement', and 'adventure.' These benefits had less importance to the participants, but had relatively high achievement, thus it might be important to make further suggestions for the direction of development according to the participants' tendency, seasons and facilities.

Efficient Production of Porcine Circovirus Type 2 Capsid Protein using Baculovirus

  • Lee, Jun-Beom;Bae, Sung-Min;Kim, Hee-Jung;Lee, Won-Woo;Heo, Won-Il;Shin, Tae-Young;Choi, Jae-Bang;Woo, Soo-Dong
    • International Journal of Industrial Entomology and Biomaterials
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    • v.24 no.1
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    • pp.23-27
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    • 2012
  • Porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV2) is a single-stranded circular DNA virus associated with Postweaning multisystemic wasting syndrome (PMWS), which is considered to be an important infectious swine viral disease. PCV2 capsid protein encoded by ORF2 is a structural protein and expected as the high immunogenicity protein. In this study, we generated recombinant baculovirus containing ORF2 of PCV2 and analyzed the optimal conditions for the production of capsid protein in insect cell. Production and status of recombinant capsid protein in insect cell were confirmed by SDS-PAGE and Western blot analysis using His tag antibody and anti-PCV2 serum. The yield of recombinant capsid protein was high like as shown visible on SDS-PAGE. Optimal multiplicity of infection (MOI) and infection time of recombinant virus were determined as 5 MOI and 4 days, respectively. ORF2 is known to have N-linked glycosylation site, but we couldn't detect the glycosylation of recombinant protein in insect cells.

A Study on Development Direction for the Establishment of the Rural Landscape Planning (경관관련 제도변화에 따른 농촌경관계획의 발전방안 연구)

  • Kim, Sang Bum;Son, Ho Gi;Kim, Eun Ja;Lee, Dong Gwan
    • Journal of Korean Society of Rural Planning
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    • v.18 no.4
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    • pp.35-44
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    • 2012
  • The main contents of revision of the rural landscape planning according to Landscape Law discussed in this study show that the urban landscape and rural landscape have a propulsion system which integrate them into the national landscape and manages through the landscape planning. However, management and conservation reflecting the fundamental difference between urban and rural areas are needed. Planning the landscape by generalizing the size of the population, administrative district, the surface area does not meet the ultimate purpose of the Landscape Law that tries to establish differentiated local landscapes. Therefore, the association of professionals who can support and establish a propulsion system for landscape planning with the consideration of regional characteristics. For the urban landscape, the landscape committee is fulfilling the role, but none is available for the rural areas. This study is mostly based on previous literatures, however, in the future, it is desirable to have selected pilot areas for different landscape types and review problems that may occur during the application and process, in order to establish the landscape guidelines for the rural landscape plan.