• Journal of agriculture & life science
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• v.45 no.5
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• pp.127-143
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• 2011

Assessment of APC has focused on large size, specialization, and structuralization based on business performance. In the future, first, it should be complemented to have correlation with management efficiency. Second, because of the rate of weight for each index, it is necessary to develop a specific index or adjust allotting of marks so that there can be correlation between indexes. Third, since APCs have high values in the composite assessment and low values in the sales amount, it is necessary to develop various kinds of indexes, including the index to evaluate processing value-added, that of customer satisfaction with assessment, and that of customer relationship maintenance performance through introduction of a customer relationship management system (CRM), in pursuit of balance. Lastly, the results of this study are expected to be able to help make APCs efficient in relation to integration of production organizations so that they will convert and develop into a basic product processing center in coping with changes in internal and external environment of agricultural marketing.

• KOREAN JOURNAL OF PACKAGING SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
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• v.30 no.2
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• pp.141-147
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• 2024

The objective of this study was carried to compare the effects of different packaging and loading materials and types on the cold storage of onions. The research was conducted for over a period of six months. Onions were divided into three groups based on the packaging materials and types: mesh bag (control), ton bag (TB), and wire mesh pallet (WMP). Parameters such as moisture content (%), total soluble solids (ºBrix), Hunter-color value, rotting rate (%), and hardness (g/force) were measured and analyzed. The results of the experiment demonstrated that there was no significant differences in onions' quality between TB and WMP and the control, respectively. This study showed that TB and WMP can be used as an alternative to controls to extend the storage-life of onions and keeping quality during long-term cold storage. Furthermore, WMP packing and loading type could be replaced to conventional storage method with better efficiency in logistics of smart APC (agricultural product processing center).

• Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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• v.38 no.1
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• pp.170-181
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• 2015

Generally, because individual agricultural product possesses its own distinctive characteristics and shows different characteristics at each stage of the agricultural supply chain, it is necessary to develop a proper enterprise architecture for managing information system. In this paper, we propose an enterprise architecture based on RFID/USN technology that can be used as a reference enterprise architecture for u-IT application in the agriculture sectors, which is called the u-Farm enterprise architecture with taking heterogeneous characteristics of agricultural products into account for. In addition, we also developed the RFID/USN middleware platform as a core infrastructure technology. Fo evaluation of the performance of the proposed u-Farm architecture and the RFID/USN middleware platform, the field-trial evaluation at the apple Agricultural Processing Center (APC) has been executed and the results shows that the proposed architecture and platform perform well in terms of information integration over the whole SCM process from the farming stage to delivering statge to the customers. It is expected that the proposed u-Farm enterprise architecture can be utilized as a standard information architecture, and the RFID/USN middleware platform can be a infrastructure platform for future u-IT based information technology applications and services in the agricultural environment.