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The Prediction of Fertilizer Demand with Respect to the Increased Utilization Ratio and Enlargememt of Arable Land up to the Year of 2,000 in Korea (2,000년대(年代)의 토지이용도증가(土地利用度增加) 및 경지확대면(耕地擴大面)에서 본 비료(肥料) 수요(需要) 전망(展望))

  • Rhee, Gyeong-Soo;Um, Ki-Tae
    • Korean Journal of Soil Science and Fertilizer
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    • v.9 no.3
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    • pp.201-210
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    • 1976
  • Only 22.7% of total land area is arable land in Korea, it is anticipated that the increased land utilization of present arable land and enlargement of arable land through the reclamation of hillside and tidal land will be of great importance for the support of increased population in the future. Followings are the prediction of increased land utilization ratios, increased arable land through the reclamation of hillside and tidal land, and the increase] in fertilizer demand up to the year of 2000. 1. On the assumption that irrigation facilities, farm mechanization, and cropping systems would be improved remarkably by the year of 2000, the land utilization ratios of paddy land and upland are estimated to be 179% and 193% respectively. 2. Increments of fertilizer demand due to increased land utilization ratios, are estimated to be 2, 290 M/T in 1980, 70, 611 M/T in 1990, and 153, 619 M/T in 2000, when the amounts of fertilizers per unit area are fixed at present lrevels. 3. Increments of fertilizer demand due to the expansion of arable land through the reclamation of 516,330 ha of hillside land and 160,568 ha of tidal land, which are the present estimation of the reclaimable areas, are estimated as 32,960 M/T in 1980, 136,320 M/T in 1990, and 366,861 M/T in 2000. 4. Total increments of fertilizer demand due to the increased land utilization of arable land and the expansion of arable land through the reclamation of hillside and tidal lands in 2000's are estimated as 196,285 M/T for N, 147,351 M/T for $P_2O_5$, and 176,844 M/T for $K_2O$.

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Area of Potential Arable Land Distributed on Hill side (개발가능지의 분포면적(分布面積))

  • Um, Ki-Tae
    • Korean Journal of Soil Science and Fertilizer
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    • v.11 no.4
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    • pp.235-245
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    • 1979
  • The land utilization of Korea composed about 22.7% of arable land, 66.9% of forest land and 10.4% for the rest like a house site, road, and lake etc. The ratio of arable land is too small as compared with forest land which is occuping two-thirds of Korea. The expansion of arable land by the reclamation will solve the food problems for increasing populations. First, we have to know the exact extents and distribution of reclaimable land but the reported total extent of reclaimable land in Korea is variable according to the authority which carried out the soil survey. The different reported data of reclaimable land is owing to the method and criteria of soil survey. 840,522ha in Land Capability Survey of the Farm Land Improvement Association and 321,203ha in the Forest Land Survey by the Office of Forest was reported but the Office of Rural Development said that total reclaimable land was 1,400,540ha including grazing and fruit land. To assume the extent of reclaimable land, the soil survey method and criteria of soil survey should be considered. It can be considered that the main reasons of less in extent of reclaimable land in the other authorities than the Office of Rural Development is due to the following. The grazing land and the fruits land are not included by the Farm Land Improvement Association and only relative forest is considered by the Office of Forest. The main purpose of soil survey carried out by the Office of Rural Development is to utilize land of Korea at most. The soil characteristics and potential productivity are considered in soil survey and the reported data was based on reconnaissance soil survey. The more accurate data will be find out by the end of 1979 when the detailed soil survey will be done. In selection of cropping system and management, the soil condition should be considered, because the soil characteristics of reslaimed land is less fertile than the arable lands.

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Utilization of Soil Resources for Maximum Production of Food Grains (식량 최대생산을 위한 토양자원 이용)

  • Sin Je Seong;Kim Lee Yeol
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Crop Science Conference
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    • 1999.11a
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    • pp.145-167
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    • 1999
  • Our self-sufficiency of food has become less than $30{\%}$ and our nation is highly dependant on world's grain market for food. which is unstable in long term due to the world population growth faster than food production. Therefore, it is a great possibility that food might become a political weapon by way of its global shortage. its purchasing difficulty in international free trade market. and the resultant price rising. Our maximal capability of food production has become the most outstanding problem in the dimension of future food security. It would be the utmost scheme for maximal production of food to realize the maximal utilization of arable land through the enlargement of sufficient farming land and the conversion of rotation system for the more grain production. Extensional enlargement of arable land can be positively executed through the development of farming land in domestic and abroad countries. The readjustment of arable land and the installation or irrigation and drainage system can enforce the farming basement for maximal utilization of arable land through the improved rotation between paddy and upland. The prevention policy against farming land encroachment should be strictly executed through grain production encouragement on resting or marginal lands and regulation of utilization conversion for the other than food production on high grade farming lands. It is also required urgently to develope high yielding and high quality varieties through advanced genetic technology for the improvement of unit area yield, especially of wheat, corn. and soybean we import in large quantity The maximal utilization of arable land for the highest production of food can be realized through rational rotation system, the most adaptable crop cultivation on the suitable land, and the most optimal fertilization through the GIS analysis of agricultural environment information on the basis of the computerized soil resource data on super detailed soil maps(1:5000) surveyed plot by plot of whole nation.

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Changes in Habitat Use by Female Japanese Pipistrelles (Pipistrellus abramus) during Different Stages of Reproduction Revealed by Radio Telemetry

  • Chung, Chul Un;Kim, Sung Chul;Jeon, Young Shin;Han, Sang Hoon
    • Journal of Environmental Science International
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    • v.26 no.7
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    • pp.817-826
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    • 2017
  • We analyzed how foraging area use changed in female Pipistrellus abramus during the breeding season. Radio tracking was used to follow 12 female P. abramus in Gyeongju City, from 2013 to 2015. We followed three bats in each of four stages of reproduction: early pregnancy, late pregnancy, lactation, and post-lactation. Our data showed that the usable area of a foraging site and the area that was actually used by bats in that site were different, and foraging site use also differed according to stage of reproduction. The bats used arable land the most, with use rates of 57%, 40.4%, and 73.2% during early pregnancy, late pregnancy, and lactation, respectively. Bats in a post-lactation state did not use arable areas at all and instead foraged over bodies of water 90% of the time. There was no difference in the use of each foraging environment between bats in early pregnancy and late pregnancy. However, bats in late pregnancy and those that were lactating did use arable land to different extents, and bats that were lactating and those that were post-lactation also used arable land and bodies of water to different extents.

A Study on Characteristic and Change of Agricultural Land Use for the Mountainous Village - The Case Study on Yowon-Village, Gyeongbuk Province - (산지촌의 농업토지이용 변화와 특성 -경북 영양군 석보면 요원리 지역을 사례로 -)

  • 오남현
    • Journal of the Korean Geographical Society
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    • v.37 no.1
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    • pp.93-110
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    • 2002
  • The purpose of this study is to analyse the change and characteristic of agricultural land use for the mountainous village which was linked to the development of arable land in the historic process as the case study on Yowon-village, Gyeongbuk province. The findings are summarized as fellows. First, most of arable land development had been developed from the late 16th century to the late 19th century and in the 1960s. A rice field was developed at the valley containing water resource and a dry field at the land close to a village before 1960 and at the gently sloped and wide hill after 1960. Second, the crops cultivated before the introduction of commercial agriculture were potato, foxtail millet, bean. After the 1970s, The vegetable, red pepper, tobacco were commercially cultivated. Third, the main group of land use change(choice of crops) result from effort of the inhabitant The significance of this study are as follows, explaining the change and characteristic of agriculture land use for the mountainous village which was linked to the development of arable land, studying as the case on small-scale village.

A Method to Determine the Purchasing Limits of Reservior Flooding Area by Rainfall Data Hydrologric Estimation (강우기록 및 수문계획에 의한 정수지수설지의 용지 현수험 결정방법)

  • 김주영
    • Magazine of the Korean Society of Agricultural Engineers
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    • v.11 no.3
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    • pp.1742-1748
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    • 1969
  • This is a method to determine the boundary line of reservoir flooding area which will be purchased. Until now, flood water level was used as the boundary line. By lowering this line from flood water level, purchasing cost of reservoir flooding area can be cut down. Sometimes, temporary flooding of arable land outside the boundary occurs. During the life of reservoir, flood damage to crop product on of this land must be indemified with net berefit from arable land between the bovndary line and normal water level. Following is the basic formula to determine the line. (Estimated flood damage to crop production of land outside the boundary line $\leqq$ Estimated net beneift from land between the boundary line and normal water level.) Minimum difference between both sides is needed to minimize the purchasing area. Flood damage and net benefit are estimated by hydrologic estimation with rainfall data and crop production estimation.

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Development of Applied Indicator according to Locational Type for Secure of Parks and Green Areas in Residential Land Development District (택지개발지역의 입지유형에 따른 공원녹지확보 적용지표 개발)

  • Han, Bong-Ho;Choi, Jin-Woo;Yeum, Jung-Hun;Ahn, Young-Hee
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Landscape Architecture
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    • v.40 no.1
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    • pp.34-42
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    • 2012
  • This study aims to suggest the secure indicator of parks and green areas according to the properties of the location. There were 31 study areas where negotiation was finalized from 2001 to 2008. The location types were divided by land use type before development and the ratio of mountainous and constructed parks, the ratio of green change and so forth were analyzed according to the those types. As a result, location types were classified into mountainous type, arable land type, urban district type. In terms of locational property, even though the ratio of parks and green areas was the highest at 24.9% in arable land type, the ratio was not much different from the others. Mountainous type depends on the ratio of mountainous park with 10.5%, and arable land type, and urban district type has high ratio of constructed parks. And, the ratio of green change arable land type is degraded by 32.8% and the ratio of mountainous green change is serious in the mountainous type. As a result of the selection of negotiation indicator, arable land type is closely related to the ratio of parks and green areas and the ratio of green change; mountainous type, the ratio of park and green, the ratio of mountainous green change and the ratio of constructed park and green; urban district type, the ratio of green areas.

Change of Land Use Pattern in Metropolitan Area of Seoul (수도권 지역의 토지 이용 변화)

  • 최운식
    • Journal of the Economic Geographical Society of Korea
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    • v.1 no.2
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    • pp.5-19
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    • 1998
  • This attempts to study the change of land use pattern and to (md out the factors to impact the change of the pattern in metropolitan area of Seoul. The data are collected from the 9 units of geomorphological map of the study area with the help of Mapinfo techniques. The data are analyzed statistically with aids of SAS programs. Land use patterns are classified into two: rural and urban and population, urbanization, transportation, industrialization and land development programs are selected as independent variables to change the land use patterns from 1960-1990. The results may be summarized as follows : (1) Arable lands consisted of 30% of the total land in 1960 but the ratio of the arable land decreased to less than 25% in 1990 in the study area. (2) Urban land use types are dominant around southern part of Seoul but rural one are dominant around northern and eastern area of Seoul. (3) Rural type are influenced by population factor but urban land use type are related to transportation and population factors. Land development program is not a significant one to impact the land use pattern in the study area.

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Assessment of Agricultural Nutrient Surplus in Pig-concentrated Region in Korea

  • Lee, Yejin;Yun, Hong-Bae
    • Korean Journal of Soil Science and Fertilizer
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    • v.46 no.6
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    • pp.482-486
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    • 2013
  • Assessment of nutrient balance in region unit is important to make a decision on nutrient management in agriculture. In this study, the nutrient demand in arable land and nutrient supply from livestock manure and chemical fertilizer were estimated from pig-concentrated areas. Three regions (H, I and J) were selected on the basis of pig numbers per unit area of arable land. In H and I regions, nitrogen amount from pig manure occupied about 50% of total livestock manure. Nutrient supply was three times higher compared to the nutrient demand in each of 3 regions. Soil available phosphate of higher pig-populated area in regional unit was higher than less populated livestock area. Therefore, livestock manure-derived regional management and monitoring of soil nutrient contents is necessary for the minimization and improvement of nutrient surplus.

A Phytosociological Study on the Weed Communities in the Cultivated and Abandoned Fields of Korea (한국의 경작지 및 휴경지의 잡초군락에 대한 식물사회학적 연구)

  • 송종석
    • The Korean Journal of Ecology
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    • v.20 no.3
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    • pp.191-200
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    • 1997
  • The present study was undertaken to classify and describe the weed communities of the fields in Korea by methods of the ZM school of phytosociology. On the basis of the data obtained, the following vegetation units were recognized: A. summer weed community of rice field A-1. Oryzetea sativae: Sagittario-Monochorietum, A-2. Lemnetea minoris: Lemna paucicostata-Spirodela polyrrhiza community B. spring weed community of rice field B-1. Bidentetea tripartitae: Stellario-Ranunculetum cantoniensis C. summer weed community of arable land C-1. Chenopodietea Pinellio ternatae-Euphorbietum pseudochamaesyceslsynonym: Acalypho australis-Digirietum pectiniformis and Cephalonoploso segetti-Geranietum eriostemonii of North Korea in Dostal다 et al.(1990)] and Phyllantho urinariae-Lindernietum crustaceae D. weed community of fallow field D-1. Erigeron sumatrensis-Erigeron anmus community, D-2. Digitaria adscendens-Portulaca oleracea community, D-3. Chenopodium album community, and D-4. Erigeron canadensis-Erigeron annuus community. Generally compared to the Korean Peninsula, the weed communities in the fields of Cheju Island is much plentiful in their species composition.

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