• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.1225-1235
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• 2021

This study aims to analyze the influence of farmer characteristics, Ihsan attitude, economic conditions, and socio-cultural environmental support, and the number of family members on farmer behavior in meeting food needs in realizing household food security, with the role of the government as a moderator. This study is about the relationship between farmer behavior and their household food security. This research uses a quantitative research method involving 337 farmers from three villages located in three different sub-districts, namely Alang-alang village, Tragah sub-district, Mrecah village, Tanah Merah sub-district, and finally Gangsean village, Sepulu sub-district. The quantitative analysis approach consists of formulating problems, compiling models, obtaining data, finding solutions, testing solutions, analyzing results, and interpreting results. From the 7 hypotheses that were built, it was identified that there was 1 hypothesis that was not significant, namely the influence of the support of the socio-cultural environment on farmer behavior to meet the food needs of farmers' households. The attitude that is identified is still very rarely used in the context of agricultural human resources and at the same time is an inherent character of Madurese farmers which is an interesting part for researchers to study more deeply and become new or authentic in this research.

• 한국유기농업학회지
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• 제24권1호
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• pp.29-44
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• 2016

The major purpose of this study was analyzing of farmer's intention in related to organic agriculture by using of the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB). Farmers of Chungchung Province (n=164) were administered a questionnaire survey that measured TPB constructs. The data and hypotheses were analyzed using multiple regression and confirmatory factor analysis by SPSS 21.0 and AMOS 21.0. Results showed that attitude, subjective norms, and perceived behavior of control were all positively related to farmer's intention of organic agriculture and explained power of the model was relatively high which was 51 percent. Also the results of the analysis showed that the subjective norm was a key dimension of farmer's intention in terms of standardized coefficient. The study demonstrated that the reduced theory of planned behavior was fit for factors of farmer's intention. The meaning of the study and implications for future studies were discussed.

• 대한가정학회지
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• 제45권3호
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• pp.57-69
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• 2007

The purpose of this study is to examine the impacts of the physical health on health behaviors of the rural elderly. In this study, physical health is measured self-rated health and farmer symptoms. The specific questions addressed in this study are: What are the general tendencies of health behavior, self-rated health and farmer symptoms? What are the direct impacts and indirect impacts of respondents' characteristics, self-rated health and farmer symptoms on health behaviors of the rural elderly? For this purpose, survey data was gathered from 881 rural elderly who live in a village. The statistical methods used for data analysis were descriptive statistics, correlations, and path analysis with spsswin 12.0 program. The major findings of this study are as follows: The level of health behaviors and self-rated health is low and the level of farmer symptoms is high. In general, it can be said that respondents of this study have the low level of physical health and health behaviors. A path analysis shows the relation of variables, which influence on health behaviors. Economic status, education status and farmer symptoms play direct and positive effects on health behaviors. Especially, the effect of farmer symptoms is more important than the others. Sex and age are indirectly significant on health behavior. The results obtained from the study confirm that objective physical health, like as farmer symptoms, plays important roles in health behavior of the rural elderly. It means that the Korean rural elderly need many facilities and services to promote their physical health.

• 한국지역사회생활과학회지
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.25-36
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• 2005

Recent trends in agricultural globalization have brought on a crisis to our already impoverished Korean farmers. This study was proposed to assist in comparing the health and dietary characteristics of farmer families that have chronic disease patients to farmer families that do not have chronic disease patients. For the study, 1870 families were selected from 9 rural Korean provinces. Trained evaluators interviewed farmer housewives to collect demographic, health behavior, and dietary relative information about family members. Statistical analyses were performed using SAS (ver 8.2). Chi-square tests and General Linear Models were also used. In general, patient family members were older than non-patient family members. For patient families, the mean age was 70.4 for husbands and 64.3 for wives. For non-patient families, the mean age was 64.2 for husbands and 57.3 for wives. Therefore we analyzed the data after we stratified the subjects based on the wife's age of 65. Patient families snacked less and 'dined out' less than non-patient families. However, they consumed cookies more frequently, and milk and fruits less frequently, when compared to non-patient families. There were no significant differences in nutrient supplementation, and/or instant food intake frequencies between patient families and non-patient families. Sixty-two percent of patient family members complained about health problems such arthritis, lumbago, numbness, shoulder pain, dizziness, and others, whereas 52olo of non-patient family members complained about Farmers' syndrome. Husband cigarette smoking was not significantly different among groups. However, the smoking patterns of the wives was significantly higher in patient families. Alcohol consumption was also higher in patient families. In summary, it was determined that rural patient families had poorer dietary behavior and poorer health in general, when compared to non-patient families, and accordingly, diverse community-level health and nutritional support are suggested to solve the farmers' health problems and to improve their quality of life.

• 농촌의학ㆍ지역보건
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• 제30권3호
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• pp.279-292
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• 2005

본 연구는 2001년도 '국민건강 영양조사'에서 자료를 추출하여 농림어업인과 비농림어업인의 상병실태 및 건강행태를 비교 분석함으로써 건강 안전 연구, 사업 및 정책의 우선순위를 결정하는데 기초 자료를 제공하고자 수행되었다. 2001년도 '국민건강 영양조사' 원자료 분석은 30세 이상에 대하여 직업을 농림어업인군과 나머지 비농림어업인으로 나누어 비교분석하였다. 의사진단 만성질환 유병자율은 농림어업인 72.4%, 비농림어업인 49.8%로 나타났다. 그러나 유병자율을 연령대별로 비교해보면 농림어업인 대 비농림어업인의 비율은 30대 1.10배, 40대 1.30배, 50대 1.14배, 60대 1.08배, 70대 0.99배로 40대와 50대에서 두 그룹간의 차이가 크고 나머지 연령대에서는 큰 차이를 보이지 않았다. 의사진단 만성질병의 구조를 살펴보면 질환별로 농림어업인과 비농림어업인이 차이가 나는 것을 알 수 있는데 근골격계 질환의 경우 농림어업인이 61.50%, 비농림어업인이 25.13%로 나타나 농림어업인이 2.4배 이상 높았으며, 손상 중독은 농림어업인이 0.89%, 비농림어업인이 0.34%로 2.6배 이상 높은 것으로 나타났다. 농림어업인 중에서 근골격계질환 다음으로 많은 것은 순환기계 20.6%, 소화기계 19.9%, 내분비계 8.5%, 호흡기계 8.0% 순로 나타났다. 의사진단 만성질병을 세부질환별로 분류해보면 농림어업인에게 가장 문제가 되는 근골격계질환의 경우 관절염 > 요통 좌골통 > 신경통 류머티즘 > 디스크 > 관절증 > 골다공증의 순으로 나타났다. 평생 사고중독 경험율은 농림어업인의 경우 18.2%, 비농림어업인은 13.3%였으며, 사고중독 후유증 호소율은 농림어업인(8.1%)이 비농림어업인(3.7%) 보다 2배 이상 높게 나타났고, 농림어업인의 사고 유형의 분포는 골절 탈구 > 삐거나 인대늘어남 > 좌상, 발생원인은 교통운수사고 > 추락미끄러짐, 발생장소는 도로 > 논밭 > 주거 인접지역 순으로 나타났다. 건강하지 못하거나 매우 건강하지 못하게 느끼는 주관적 건강인식 비율은 농림어업인이 비농림어업인에 비해 거의 2배 가까이 건강을 나쁘게 인식하는 것으로 나타났으며, 흡연율과 운동미실천율이 농림어업인이 비농림어업인보다 높게 나타났다. 또한 스트레스 원인으로서 건강과 질병이라는 응답비율이 농림어업인이 비농림어업인에 비해 2.4배 많게 나타났다. 결론적으로 농림어업인은 비농림어업인에 비해 만성질병 유병률이 높게 나타났으며 그 중 근골격계질환이 가장 문제가 되고 있었다. 이는 농작업 특성상 작업자세가 불량하고 장시간 같은 자세로 일하는 시간이 길며 중량물 취급 등 근골격계 부담작업이 많기 때문으로 해석된다. 따라서 농림어업인의 건강증진사업은 일반적인 성인병 예방 중심의 사업이 아니라 농작업 특성을 반영하여 농림어업인에게 특화된 방향으로 전개되어야 할 것으로 생각한다. 이를 위해서는 농림어업인에게 주로 발생하는 질환 및 사고와 농작업과의 관련성을 심층분석하고 건강유해요인을 구명하는 연구가 지속적으로 수행되어야 하며 각각의 건강 유해요인별로 다양한 대책 마련이 필요하다고 하겠다.

• 농업과학연구
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• 제32권1호
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• pp.95-106
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• 2005

This study was focused on analyzing the impacts of e-commerce on the farmer's management behavior and suggesting alternatives for the development of e-commerce in agricultural industry. For this study, survey was conducted for 24 farmers who sell agricultural products through e-commerce in Chungnam province. The results of study are as follows; First, farmers have changed their management practices in terms of production, marketing and processing by using the information of consumers' preferences while doing e-commerce business. Second, farmers have attempted to differentiate their product through product brand and customer relationship marketing, because they recognized the importance of developing marketing techniques adapted to e-commerce system for more revenues. Third, if quality certification system of agricultural products is introduced under e-commerce, farmers would use it for their environmentally sounded farming because they expect to increase their income. Fourth, 75% of the farmers sold their product at retail price. It means that e-commerce farmers act as a price maker rather than price taker at e-commerce market, who will be encouraged to have larger business size resulting in more added value. Based on the results of study, we suggest that there should be reduction of service charge for credit card, and encouragement of B2B transaction for the economy of scale and introduction of quality certification system so as to establish e-commerce system of agricultural industry as soon as possible.

• Journal of Community Nutrition
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.44-51
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• 1999

The purpose of this study was to compare dietary behavior and food intake in relation to physical complaints, such as farmer' syndrome(FS) and gastro-intestinal(GI) problem among Korean farmers. The questionnaire was composed of 24 Cornell Medical Index (CMI), 8 farmers' syndrome, and 5 GI problem questions. Food intake data was gathered by the semi-quantitative food frequency method. The subjects(male 226, female 415) who had FS and Gi problem were 12./8% and 8.3%, respectively. The physical complaints were higher in female and the elderly group. In the FS group, lower activity was seen that in normal groups. The lower health status and fatigues were found in the physical complaint groups. Dietary behavior showed low appetite in the physical complaint group, irregular lunch in FS, and irregular breakfast in GI problem group. Changes in dietary behavior were shown in the aspects of lower amount of intake quantity(40.8%), lower consumption in fat(32.8%) and salty(38.8%) foods, and diverse food items(47.8%). Quantity of food consumed was significantly different withing groups with FS. Kinds of food consumed, intake of protein source foods, milk and calcium and total animal foods were lower in the FS group. But milk and calcium source food and all animal food intakes were higher in the GID problem group. The results suggest that dietary behavior and food intake differ within the group of physical complaints.

• 한국지역사회생활과학회지
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• 제24권4호
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• pp.553-565
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• 2013

The purpose of this study is to segment urban farming patterns and analyse the preference on urban farming by applying two-step cluster analysis, chi-square analysis and ANOVA. The data was collected by face-to-face surveys on 9 urban farms which were chosen by location and operator. Respondents were asked to describe their urban farming pattern, preference on urban farming and socio-demographic characteristics. Three different clusters were derived from two-step cluster analysis based on operator, transportation, number of visits per month, travel time, area and motive. They were 'hobby-oriented farming', 'producing-oriented farming', and 'multipurpose farming'. The results of chi-square analysis showed that there were significant differences among these three segmented groups in terms of age, with or without children aged under 14, household income per month and housing type. In other words, there is quite a possibility that urbanites have different urban farming patterns according to their socio-demographic profiles. Also, there were significant differences on the preference on urban farming by cluster. According to the results, planning directions of urban farming were presented.

• 한국산업보건학회지
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• 제20권2호
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• pp.79-87
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• 2010

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to investigate the symptoms of work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WMSDs), the influence of the WMSDs on the health-related quality of life (HRQoL), and to identify the differences of WMSDs and HRQoL between greenhouse farmers and paddy farmers. Methods: Subjects were 34 greenhouse farmers and 56 paddy farmers who were living in a rural community. The sociodemographic characteristics, health-related behavior, working characteristics, WMSDs and HRQoL were investigated. WMSDs symptoms were measured by a selfassessed questionnaire on musculoskeletal disorders symptoms and HRQoL was measured by the Euro Quality of Life (Euroqol) EQ-5D index. The differences on the WMSDs, EQ-5D and it's related factors between the groups were assessed with t-test and ${\chi}^2$-test. Results: Greenhouse farmers were longer the working hours per day and working duration than paddy farmers. The level of prevalence of the WMSDs in greenhouse farmers is higher than in paddy farmers. The EQ-5D index of greenhouse farmers and paddy farmers were 0.819 and 0.874, respectively. Overall, the mean value of EQ-5D index was significantly lower greenhouse farmers than paddy farmers. Conclusions: These results showed that the HRQoL for farmers are strongly influenced by WMSDs and agicultural type in that we are aware of the need to comply with regulations of WMSDs, especially greenhouse farmers.

• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.313-320
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• 2020

This study aims to analyze the household economic behavior of salt farmers participants in Salt Business Empowerment Program (Pugar) including of salt production, work flow, household revenue, the behavior of consumption of food and non-food items and the welfare level. This research followed a survey method by engaging 32 household farmers as participants. The findings revealed that the empowerment program was carried out through the technical assistance of salting production and the assistance of equipment and technology from Thread of Screw Filter and geoisolators to improve the quality of salt. The problems come when the marketing of salt is still limited to the collectors of salt which led to the price of salt level, manufacturers have not remained stable. Household revenue sources for some salt farmers also come from non-salt pond business activities. Farmer household revenue can be used to meet staple food consumption and non-food staple consumption. Based on the indicators of family welfare, households participating in the empowerment program were group into the category of prosperous families. In order to stabilize the price of salt at the producer level, government intervention in the people's salt trading system is needed.