• 농촌지도와개발
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.121-146
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• 1997

Sunchon National University Farming Promotion Center is a unique social education institution for the farmers. This study intends to analyze the educational and training programs for future farmer candidates with a expert technology, successors to the rural leaders of Saemaul Movements, expert farmers, the students of farming practice courses in the Department of Agricultural Education, and the citizens participating in the social education courses. It is an urgent problem to recruit the experts in social education, and in specialized and advanced farm management technology. A committee for the betterment of the social education program should be consisted of the social education experts, and alumni of the Farming Promotion Center to share their farming information with one another. In order to achieve the successful goal in the education program of the Farming Promotion Center, the well planned field trips and the supervised farming practices should be secured, and the follow-up management system for the people finishing the courses of the educational programs should be formulated.

• 한국환경보건학회지
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• 제42권5호
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• pp.333-344
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• 2016

Objectives: This study aimed to examine risk-accepting personality traits and associated factors among farmers. Methods: Data were collected from farmers aged over 40 living in Goryeong, North Gyeongsang-do Province, Korea. Study participants were enrolled in the Korean Rural Cohort study from 2011 to 2014. Surveys for the risk perception of farming were made through face-to-face interviews. Chi-square tests and logistic regression analysis were conducted adjusting for gender, age, marital status, and education. Results: Several factors such as gender, age, marital status, age first worked as a farmer, duration of farming, and history of pesticide poisoning were associated with risk-accepting personality traits among farmers. Farmers with risk-accepting personalities tend to be older, less educated, and have self-employed health insurance. Farmers who started farming after the age of 50 are likely to be risk averse compared to farmers who started farming before the age of 20 (OR=0.41, 95% CI; 0.21, 0.82). Frequent spraying of pesticides was marginally associated with higher risk acceptance among female farmers (OR=1.61, 95% CI: 0.99, 2.64). Male farmers who had experienced pesticide poisoning in their lifetime showed higher odds of risk-accepting personality traits (OR=2.20, 95% CI: 1.03, 4.72) Conclusion: Risk-acceptors were more likely to spray pesticides frequently and to experience more pesticide poisoning compared to risk-averse individuals. This result suggests that farming hazards are to some degree driven by risk-accepting personality traits. Further investigation of how risk-accepting behaviors influence farming practices and pesticide poisoning is needed.

• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제24권8호
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• pp.1031-1040
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• 2011

The objective of this study was to characterize factors influencing genetic improvement of dairy cattle for milk production at farm level. Data were accumulated from 305-day milk yields and pedigree information from 1,921 first-lactation dairy cows that calved from 1990 to 2007 on 161 farms in Central Thailand. Variance components were estimated using average information restricted maximum likelihood procedures. Animal breeding values were predicted by an animal model that contained herd-year-season, calving age, and regression additive genetic group as fixed effects, and cow and residual as random effects. Estimated breeding values from cows that calved in a particular month were used to estimate genetic trends for each individual farm. Within-farm genetic trends (b, regression coefficient of farm milk production per month) were used to classify farms into 3 groups: i) farms with negative genetic trend (b<-0.5 kg/mo), ii) farms with no genetic trend (-0.5 kg/$mo{\leq}b{\leq}0.5$ kg/mo), and iii) farms with positive genetic trend (b>0.5 kg/mo). Questionnaires were used to gather information from individual farmers on educational background, herd characteristics, farm management, decision making practices, and opinion on dairy farming. Farmer's responses to the questionnaire were used to test the association between these factors and farm groups using Fisher's exact test. Estimated genetic trend for the complete population was $0.29{\pm}1.02$ kg/year for cows. At farm level, most farms (40%) had positive genetic trend ($0.63{\pm}4.67$ to $230.79{\pm}166.63$ kg/mo) followed by farms with negative genetic trend (35%; $-173.68{\pm}39.63$ to $-0.62{\pm}2.57$ kg/mo) and those with no genetic trend (25%; $-0.52{\pm}3.52$ to $0.55{\pm}2.68$ kg/mo). Except for educational background (p<0.05), all other factors were not significantly associated with farm group.

• Agribusiness and Information Management
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.1-10
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• 2016

Information and communication technologies (ICTs) have always mattered in agriculture too. In day-to-day practices of agriculture and allied sectors, the farmers often share their information. Changing weather patterns, soil conditions, pests and diseases always throw challenges to small and marginal farmers. So, the farmer needs up-dated information to cope with and even benefit from these changes. In the developing countries like India, where agriculture still plays a crucial role (over 58% of the rural households depend on agriculture as their livelihood) and the rising population from 1027 million to 1419 million during 2001-16 (a total rise of 38 percent or 1.3 percent per year) pose a lot of pressure on land and other resources to meet the food security needs on one hand and to meet the challenges of globalization on the other. Understanding and addressing these challenges are very crucial, in which ICT can play a major role. With the booming mobile, wireless, and Internet industries, ICT has found a foothold even in poor marginal and smallholder farms and in their activities. The survey conducted among the 120 farmers in Srikakulam district in India revealed that, ICT has revolutionized the agriculture in the modern days. Production and marketing information is accessed by 91% of the sample farmers through mobile in 2015, where it was only 5% in 2005. The extent of use of mobile phones by the farmers varied with the decision to be taken by them like Harvesting, packing, and storing (94%), Selling Decision (91%), Seed purchase (89%), Application of fertilizers and pesticides (88%) and Land preparation and planting (84%), other package of practices (77%). The farmers further opined that, 'Voice' was the dominating source of communication (96%) compared to Short Message Service (SMS) (only 27%) and Internet access (10%), as majority are illiterate. The use of camera (71%), Bluetooth (33%), Radio (61%) TV (41%) are the other means of sharing the information. In this context of importance of ICTs in Indian agriculture, greater attention justifies about the applications of ICT's to alleviate poverty and promote economic growth of the farming population.

• 식물병연구
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.1-5
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• 2007

경상북도 북부지역 7개 시 군의 담배재배 농가를 대상으로 병해 발생상황과 농민들의 병해방제법과 관련된 재배방법을 조사하였다. 육묘기와 본밭초기의 담배에서 발생되는 전염성 병해는 극히 미미하였으며, 수확기의 담배에 가장 피해를 주는 병은 감자바이러스 Y에 의한 모자이크병과 세균성마름병(Ralstonia solanacearum)이었다. 담배모자이크바이러스(TMV)에 의한 모자이크병은 저항성 품종의 확대 보급으로 인하여 10년 전에 비하여 크게 감소되었으며, 세균성마름병 발생은 감수성 품종 보급으로 인하여 증가하였다. 30% 이상의 담배 재배 농민들이 농약을 오용하고 있었으며, 같은 수의 농민들이 10년 이상 담배를 연작하고 잘못된 윤작 작물을 선택하였다.

• International journal of advanced smart convergence
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.153-158
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• 2023

Most agriculture plantings are based on traditional farming and demand a lot of human work processes. In order to improve the efficiency as well as the productivity of their farms, modern agricultural technology was proven to be better than traditional practices. Internet of Things (IoT) is usually related in modern agriculture which provides the farmer with a real-time monitoring condition of their farm from anywhere and anytime. Therefore, the application of IoT with a sensor to measure and monitors the humidity and the temperature in the mushroom farm that can overcome this problem. This paper proposes an IoT based monitoring system forindoor Ganoderma lucidum cultivation at a minimal cost in terms of hardware resources and practicality. The results show that the data of temperature and humidity are changing depending on the weather and the preliminary experimental results demonstrated that all parameters of the system were optimized and successful to achieve the objective. In addition, the analysis results show that the quality of Ganoderma lucidum produced on the research method conforms to regulations in Vietnam.

• 한국국제농업개발학회지
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• 제30권4호
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• pp.285-291
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• 2018

1. 본 연구는 저지대 천수답지역인 캄보디아 남부 따게오주에서2012~2013년에 2년간 벼 집약재배관리 시스템(System of Rice Intensification: SRI)에 대한 현장 연구 결과이다. 2. 천수답 지역에서 2년간 SRI는 FP 보다 화학비료 사용 없이 쌀 수량이 증가 되었다. 캄보디아 천수답 농가의 SRI은 어린모로 조기 이앙과 넓은 재식 밀도로 인해 이삭수 확보와 함께 지형에 따른 물 보유 능력과 오랜 기간 유기물 사용으로 수량이 증가된 것으로 판단된다. 3. 쌀 수량에 미치는 영향으로 총 질소 흡수량과 단위면적당 총 영화수는 ($r^2=0.95$) 정의 상관관계를 보였으며, 천수답 지역에서 물 관리 방법은 어렵지만 유기물을 장기간 사용한 지역 농가의 쌀 생산은 증가 되었다. 4. 최근 국내에서 일부 지역에서 소식재배가 확대되고 있는데 SRI원리를 소식재배와 연계한다면 보다 좋은 재배방법이 될 것으로 기대된다.

• 한국토양비료학회지
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• 제44권5호
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• pp.688-695
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• 2011

우리나라 남부 이모작 논토양의 생산성향상을 위한 합리적인 관리책을 제시코자 영남지역 주요 논 토양별 경반층 생성특성 및 원인을 현지조사 중심으로 수행한 결과는 다음과 같다. 논 토양의 배수등급 및 토성에 따라 총 90필지의 경운실태를 조사한 결과, 경운시기는 대부분 춘경이었고 기종은 중대형 트랙터가 대종을 이루고 있었으며 경운방법은 토양 배수조건이 불량할수록 위탁경운을 하는 경향이었다. 경운깊이와 원추관입 최대저항값 출현깊이와는 고도의 상관을 보였고, 최대저항값 출현 토심은 약 27.1 cm로 조립질 토양에서 다소 깊은 경향으로 원추관입최대저항값은 2.50 Mpa으로 사질 및 사양질 토성이 3.46~3.29 Mpa로 높았고, 경반층의 강도는 세립질토양에서 뚜렷이 높았다. 경반형성 부위의 용적중은 $1.3{\sim}1.5g\;cm^{-3}$로 미사질계 토양이 낮았으며 고상율은 사양질이 미사질에 비해 높아 공극율은 낮은 경향을 보였다. 경반층 직하토층의 유기물, 유효인산, 치환성칼리 함량은 표토에 비해 매우 낮은 경향인 반면, pH와 치환성 석회 및 고토의 함량은 높은 경향이었다. 토층별 토양수분 함량과 원추관입저항값과는 관계는 표토는 부의 상관을 보인 반면 심토는 일정한 경향이 없었다. 경운여부에 따른 논토양 원추관입저항은 토심 20~23 cm에서 큰 차이를 보였고 경운답은 2.03~2.21Mpa인 반면, 무경운답은 1.18~1.25 Mpa로 낮았으며 무경 운 년수가 진행될수록 쟁기바닥층은 없어지는 반면, 토심10 cm 부위에 원추관입저항이 높은 토층이 새로 생성되었음. 따라서 남부 다모작지 논토양 견밀화 (경반화) 토층은 토심 15~20 cm 부위에서 주로 형성되었으며 농작업과 관련성이 높으며 작업 시 토양의 수분조건은 경반화에 크게 영향하며 경반이 생성된 토층의 투수력은 $0.03{\sim}0.14mL\;hr^{-1}$ 매우 낮아 양 수분의 수직이동에 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다.

• 농촌지도와개발
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• 제20권4호
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• pp.1105-1147
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• 2013

본 연구는 농업 농촌 정책에 대한 농업인의 만족도를 진단하고, 만족도에 영향을 미치는 결정요인을 분석하기 위해 호남 지역 750명의 농업인을 대상으로 설문조사를 실시하였다. 분석결과 리커트 척도로 측정한 22개 정책에 대한 5점리커트척도 만족도의 평균은 2.71~3.09로 매우 낮게 나타났다. 순서형 로짓모형 분석결과 농업인의 연령이 높을수록, 소득이 많을수록, 농업관련 교육 경험이 많을수록 정책 만족도는 낮아지는 것으로 밝혀졌다. 아울러 주작목이 수도, 전작, 축산, 원예인 농가는 타작목 재배 농가에 비해 만족도가 낮은 것으로 나타났으며, 농가의 위치가 산간이나 준산간 지역인 경우 또한 만족도와 부(-)의 관계를 갖는 것으로 나타났다. 반면에 소유농지가 많을수록 만족도는 높아지는 것으로 나타났다. 22개 농업 농촌 정책가운데 농업인이 선호하는 정책은 쌀소득보전직불제, 친환경농업, 농지은행사업 등의 순으로 나타났으며, 도움이 되었다고 인지하는 정책은 수준별 맞춤형 교육, 친환경농업, 쌀소득보전직불제 등의 순으로 나타났다. 농업인이 선호하는 직접지불 정책은 농업발전에 직접적으로 기여되지 않을 수 있으므로, 농업발전을 유도하는 동시에 농가 소득을 개선 할 수 있는 정책이 농업인의 만족도롤 향상시킬 수 있으며, 도농간 소득 격차도 해소시킬 수 있을 것으로 진단되었다.

• 유통과학연구
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• 제13권6호
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• pp.97-104
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• 2015

Purpose - The distribution of agricultural products is changing due to recent shifts in environmental free trade. Specifically, the competitiveness of domestic agricultural products has weakened as a result of the Korea-China Financial Trade Agreement. Agricultural producers are faced with increasing difficulties and organized production centers are growing in importance daily. To overcome this crisis, agricultural producer organizations are vying for environment-friendly agricultural certifications, Good Agriculture Practices (GAP) and Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP). In particular, as consumer demand for higher safety grows, farmers are increasing their certification rates. Therefore, this certification system is expected to help strengthen the competitiveness of agricultural producer organizations. Research design/data/methodology - Organized production centers are classified by certification. A survey was conducted with 91 organizations using factor analysis and logistic regression analysis for the examination. The factor analysis results are as follows. Raw material procurement, education·specialization, marketing, joint business, organizing ability, business management, effectiveness, certification, and larger organizations were classified as the nine types of factors. These factors affect the organized production centers and are used in the logistic regression analysis. The purpose of such research and analysis is to suggest a direction for future production center policies. Results - The basic statistical results are as follows: analysis of the producer organizations of 91 sites, average number of members per site of 1,624, and average sales of 25,961 million won. Additionally, the average income per farmer is 175 million won, and the pooling system rate is 53.5%. The factor analysis results are as follows. Factor 1 consists of contract cultivation, ongoing shipment, selection subdivision, traceability, and major retailer management. Factor 2 consists of manual cultivation, specialty selection, education program, and R&D. Factor 3 consists of advertising, various dealers, various sales strategies, and a unified sales counter. Factor 4 consists of agricultural materials co-purchase, policy support, co-shipment, and incentives. Factor 5 consists of the co-selection and pooling system. Factor 6 consists of co-branding and operating by the organization's article. Factor 7 consists of the buy-sell ratio and rate of operation of the agriculture promotion center. Factor 8 consists of bargaining power in volume and participation rate of farmer certification. Factor 9 consists of increasing new subscribers. The logistic regression analysis results are as follows. Considering the results by type of certification, the environment-friendly agricultural certification type and the GAP certification type have a (+) influence. GAP and HACCP certification types affecting the education·specialization factor have a (+) influence. Considering the results for each type of certification, the environment-friendly agricultural certification types on the effectiveness factor have (-) influence; the HACCP certification types on the organizing ability and effectiveness factor have a (-) influence. Conclusions - Agricultural producer organizations should develop plans as follows: The organizations need to secure education for agricultural production; increase the pooling system ratio for sustainable organizational development; and, finally, expand the number of agricultural producer organizations.