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History of Organic Agricultural Movement and Perspective for Development of Organic Agriculture in Tasmania (호주 태즈메이니아 유기농운동의 전개과정과 발전과제)

  • Kim, J.S.
    • Journal of Practical Agriculture & Fisheries Research
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    • v.15 no.1
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    • pp.25-43
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    • 2013
  • Tasmania with its clean air, isolated from mainland Australia, has been producing high-quality agricultural products and has been continually developing organic farming since 1946 when the Living Soil Association of Tasmania(LSAT) was established. The organic farming movement in Tasmania has been actively advocated through three steps: the philosophical embryonic period, the movement diffusion period and the industrialised development period. The campaigns for informing about the connection between healthy soil and life unfolded during the embryonic period. This was followed by the birth of publicity of organic farming and the certification system through the dissemination of organic farming techniques and various events related to agriculture in the diffusion period when the Organic Gardening and Farming Society(OGFS) was established in 1972. In the industrialised development period, The Organic Coalition of Tasmania (OCT) which is representative of Tasmania was organised in 2000 and has been leading the organic farming industry. The organic farming movement in Tasmania not only limits the use of artificial agricultural chemical but pursues the quality of food, environment, the health of life including all animals and plants, the issue of development in rural society, social justice, and equity in understanding. It is far more holistic in its philosophy. The output of organic food accounts for 1 % of the total amount of agricultural production and 150 certified organic farms have managed with 5,000ha of land in 2010. The supply channels for organic foods vary from farmer's market, specialty stores, supermarket chains, local store to the cooperative community. Also the consumers' behaviour for organic foods has been establishing as an alternative life style. The education of the value and role of organic farming on the environment should be enlarged for the consumption of the organic food. In addition, organising for small farmers who act individually and the link with differentiated local food have still remained issues.

The Impact of Oil Palm Farming on Household Income and Expenditure in Indonesia

  • RAMADHANA, Arga;AHMED, Ferdoushi;THONGRAK, Sutonya
    • The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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    • v.8 no.4
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    • pp.539-547
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    • 2021
  • Indonesia is the largest exporter of palm oil in the world. The province of West Sulawesi is the second-largest palm oil producer in Indonesia. This study examines the contributions of oil palm farming to total household income and the factors affecting the household expenditure of oil palm smallholders in West Sulawesi, Indonesia. This study also identifies the problems related to oil palm production in the province. Primary data were collected from 174 oil palm smallholders using a standardized questionnaire in the Lariang sub-district, Pasangkayu, West Sulawesi, Indonesia. Several statistical tools were employed to analyze the data. The study estimated the average household income of the smallholders at IDR 30,417,441 per year, out of which 85,8% comes from oil palm farming, followed by non-oil palm farming (8%) and off farming (6.2%). On the other hand, the average household expenditure was found to be IDR 23,476,069 per year which 66% goes for food consumption and 34% for non-food consumption. The findings revealed that household expenditure of the oil palm smallholders is strongly and positively affected by a number of factors such as household income, education level, family size, earning members in the family, number of children attending school, and amount of credit taken by the household.

A Study on the Priority and Evaluation Criteria of Domestic Support Measures according to FTA (FTA 체결에 따른 국내지원대책의 평가기준 및 우선순위 선정)

  • Son, Yong-Jung
    • International Commerce and Information Review
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    • v.14 no.1
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    • pp.301-314
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    • 2012
  • To improve support for damages due to FTA and competitive power to overcome it, direct damages to farming and fisheries are compensated through Direct Payment Policy and Business Cessation Support System. Support plans will be developed to enhance competitive power in industries and income base in rural areas. This study carried an AHP to decide Priority and Evaluation Criteria in respect to domestic support measures according to FTA. For the AHP, the classes were categorized into direct damage conservation, higher competitive power and expansion of income. For the direct damage preservation measures, the classes were categorized into farmers, fishermen, manufactures, service business managers, and workers. In respect to reinforcement of competitive power of each industry, the classes were categorized into farming, fisheries, manufacturing, the drug industry, and service business. In respect to expansion of income, the classes were categorized into farming and fishing. Then 27 national support measures were presented for sub-classes. As a result of the analysis, it was discovered that more weight was given to measures to reinforce competitive power of each industry and expand income than those on direct damage conservation. In respect to higher competitive power in industries, more weight was given to support for farming and manufacturing. In respect to expansion of income, more weight was given on measures on farming than fisheries. For the direct damage preservation measures, more weight was given on support measures on farmers and workers.

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The Northern China Agricultural Engineering of Farmer's Courtyard Energy Ecological System

  • Wei, Baorong;An, Xiangjun
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society for Agricultural Machinery Conference
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    • 1993.10a
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    • pp.627-636
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    • 1993
  • The so-called northern Agricultural Engineering of Farmer's courtyard Energy Ecological System is a courtyard-type energy ecological synthetic application system, that combines into one the biogas pool, pig house, toilet and plastic -membrane greenhouse in a fully-closed condition in farmer's court yard, a combination of farming with breeding industry, with bioga as the key linkage , by taking full advantage of solar energy and through bioenergy conversion technique in accordance with ecological principle.

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Development of customized-feed service system for swine farming (양돈 농장의 맞춤사료서비스 시스템 개발)

  • Kim Hyeok-Jin;Jeon Byoung-Chan;Lee Chang-Ho
    • Journal of the Korea Computer Industry Society
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    • v.6 no.3
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    • pp.421-428
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    • 2005
  • Insufficiency of special knowledge and construction cost makes it difficult in build a customized-feed service system in the agricultural and livestock industry In this paper, customized-feed service system was developed in the internet service environment by using digital information and technology as a grafted system. This system has a couple of advantages like economic feed supply and effective management of feed production cost which make it possible to establish a customized-feed database suitable for the working environment in the agricultural and livestock industry. And this system is expected as a solution for 21st century digitalized agricultural and livestock industry which make it certain in real time by constructing a network environment and digitalizing the equipment and component related to the farm production.

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Cultural perspectives and current consumption changes of cooked rice in Korean diet

  • Kim, Sook-He
    • Nutrition Research and Practice
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    • v.1 no.1
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    • pp.8-13
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    • 2007
  • Cooked rice is a staple food for Koreans which provides more than 60% of daily required energy. In 1960's, Koreans ate 600 g-800 g of cooked rice per meal and the energy obtained from cooked rice was almost more than 80% of the daily intake of energy. However, as the economy of Korea improved, the major industry has been shifted from agriculture to various manufacturing industries and the export of those products has been increased thus increasing the national income but decreasing the farming population and thus rice consumption have been decreased. It has been said that the decreased rice consumption is caused solely by decreased farming population but it can also be said that the decreased farming population is caused by decreased rice consumption. As the national income increases, the type of foods people consume have become diversified. Various processed foods such as convenience food or ready-to-eat food have been widespread, which are mostly made of wheat flour rather than rice.

Present Status and Prospects of Oyster Industry in Korea

  • Cho Chang-Hwan
    • Journal of Aquaculture
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    • v.9 no.4
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    • pp.303-309
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    • 1996
  • Oyster is the most important item next to tuna based on the market value in Korea's fisheries exports and it shares more than $90\%$ of the world oyster market. Oyster industry is a vital component of the Korea's aquaculture industry. However, it has faced many problems such as (1) a lower productivity of the culture system, (2) an environmental deterioration of the farming area, (3) a higher labor cost, (4) a shortage of of oysters to export, and (5) a poor seedling in nature. Therefore, including it's business forecast, the above problems and some countermeasures are discussed in this paper.

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Policy Direction for Smart Farming

  • 한국농식품정보과학회
    • Agribusiness and Information Management
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    • v.12 no.2
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    • pp.24-39
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    • 2021
  • As the number of fields adopting ICT (Information and Communication Technology) increased, it was necessary to diagnose the information service status of corporations and present improvement plans in agriculture. Therefore, we designed and conducted various surveys to understand the information service status of domestic agricultural company corporations.The research included ways to utilize information technology, establishing infrastructure related to information technology, current status of information technology application and impact on performance. Specifically, the main purpose of this study was to subdivide related corporations by industry and sales level and provide differentiated management implications for each sector. This is because the type of information service and information technology support that each corporation needs varies greatly depending on the industry and sales level. We provide customized management and policy proposals based on descriptive statistics and regression techniques.