• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제24권6호
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• pp.781-790
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• 2011

The effects of seedtime and maturity stage on nutritive value of five maize stover varieties, including conventional maize (Kexiangyu 11, CM), fodder maize (Huqing 1, FM), high oil maize (Gaoyou 115, HOM), sweet maize (Kexiangtianyu 1, SM) and waxy maize (Kexiangluoyu 1, WM), were examined based on chemical composition, in vitro gas production and in situ incubation techniques. Maize stover was sampled at d 17 and d 30 after tasseling, and designated as maturity stage 1 and stage 2, respectively. The average dry matter (DM) organic matter (OM), crude protein (CP) and fiber contents were the greatest for HOM, SM and FM, respectively. CM had the highest in vitro organic matter disappearance (IVOMD) and volatile fatty acid (VFA) concentration. The highest ammonia nitrogen ($NH_3$-N) concentration in the incubation solution, and effective degradability of DM ($ED_{DM}$) and neutral detergent fiber ($ED_{NDF}$) were observed in SM. Advanced maturity stage increased (p<0.05) DM content, $ED_{DM}$ and $ED_{NDF}$, but decreased (p<0.05) OM and CP contents, and decreased (p<0.05) b and a+b values, IVOMD and molar proportion of valerate in the incubation solution for maize stover. Maize sown in summer had greater (p<0.05) OM content, but lower DM, CP, neutral detergent fiber (NDF) and acid detergent fiber (ADF) content compared with maize sown in spring. Maize sown in summer had greater (p<0.001) IVOMD, $NH_3$-N concentration in the incubation solution and $ED_{NDF}$, but lower (p<0.01) ratio of acetate to propionate compared to maize sown in spring. The interaction effect of variety${\times}$seedtime was observed running through almost all chemical composition, in vitro gas production parameters and in situ DM and NDF degradability. The overall results suggested that SM had the highest nutrient quality, and also indicated the possibility of selecting maize variety and seedtime for the utilization of maize stover in ruminants.

• Journal of Ecology and Environment
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• 제43권2호
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• pp.85-97
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• 2019

Background: Despite the increasing role of dry forests in climate change adaptation and mitigation, these versatile resources has got less attention in the national and regional planning, their potential to enhance the local and national economy has been overlooked, and their contribution to sustainable environmental management has not been recognized. Hence, the objective of this study was to assess the socioeconomic contribution of dry forests and forest products to climate change adaptation in the Liben Woreda, Southern Oromia region of Ethiopia. Methods: For this study, an integrated qualitative and quantitative approach was used. A total of 74 households from villages in the Bulbul, Boba, and Melka-Guba kebeles were randomly selected for the household survey. Results: Results showed that 75% of the respondents in the area indicated that climate change has become their major sources of vulnerability, where drought has been manifested in the form of crops failure and massive death of livestock particularly cattle species. The main income strategies of the study households include livestock, crop, forests such as gum and resins, firewood and charcoal and non-farm activities such as in the form of petty trade, wage and aid. The average total household income was ETB 11,209.7. Out of this, dry forest income constituted 15% of the total income. In addition to using dry forests as rangeland for livestock, the communities collect wood for construction, fodder, traditional medicine, and forest food both for subsistence and for sale. On the other hand, dry forest products could be considered as less vulnerable, rather resilient livelihood strategies to climate- and environment-related risks compared to livestock and crop production such as in the face of drought periods. More than 48.6% of the households argued that the income generated from dry forests increased substantially due to increment in the level of engagement of family members in forest based income activities. On the other hand, 35.8% of the households responded that livestock production, particularly camels and goats, have been making the livelihood strategies of the respondents more resilient indicating the shift made from grazers browsers to livestock. In general trends show that, the trends of livelihood dependency on dry forest were highly increasing indicating the importance of dry forest income in responsse to frequent droughts. Conclusions: Dry forest income has been becoming crucial livelihood staretgy in response to frequent droughts in the study area and hence, it is important to improve the management of dry forests for livelihood enhancement, while also securing their long-term ecological functions.

• 한국식품과학회지
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• 제10권4호
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• pp.404-408
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• 1978

1. 엘더베리 열매의 일반분석결과(一般分析結果) 조지방(粗脂肪) $1.56{\sim}2.50%$, 조단백질(粗蛋白質) $2.50{\sim}6.10%$ 조회분(粗灰分) $0.7{\sim}1.3%$ pectin 0.73%로서 열매는 $6{\sim}7%$의 씨를 합유(合有)하고 있었다. 2. 엘더베리기름 중(中) hot pressed oil은 참기름과 맛, 향(香)이 비슷하였고 cold pressed oil은 올리브기름과 향(香), 색(色)이 비슷하였으며 비중(比重) $0.915{\sim}0.925$로서 씨로부터 $26.18{\sim}26.55%$의 수율(收率)로 얻어졌다. 3. 엘더베리기름은 필수지방산(必須脂肪酸)이 다량함유(多量含有)된 기름이었고 추출박(抽出粕)은 조단백질(粗蛋白質)이 $12.65{\sim}18.66%$를 함유(含有)하고 있어 가축사료중(家畜飼料中) 농후사료(濃厚飼料)로 사용가능(使用可能)할 것으로 사료(思料)된다.

• Toxicological Research
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• 제23권1호
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• pp.87-96
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• 2007

Single and repeated-dose toxicity of anti-diabetic herb extract microcapsule (ADHEM) were evaluated according to Toxicity Test Guidelines of Korea Food and Drug Administration using Sprague-Dawley rats. For single-dose toxicity test, kneading ADHEM with sterilized water were administered orally once at dose levels of 0 and 2,000 mg/kg and examined for 14 days. No dead animals, clinical signs and abnormal necropsy findings were observed and also no significant difference in body weights was found. Therefore, the $LD_{50}$ of ADHEM was considered to be higher than 2,000 mg/kg in both male and female rats. For repeated-dose toxicity test, ADHEM were mixed with powder fodder and administerd orally for 28 days at dose levels of 0, 500, 1000 and 2000 mg/kg/day. No dead animals, clinical signs and significant difference in body weights were found. In hematology and serum biochemistry, all values were included within the normal ranges. In relative organ weights, kidney or liver were significantly increased in the 500, 1000 or 2000 mg/kg/day male groups, uterus was significantly increased in the 500 mg/kg/day female group and left adrenal glands were significantly decreased in the 2000 mg/kg/day female group. In histopathological examinations, vacuolation and microgranuloma in the liver, chronic progressive nephropathy and inflammation in the kidney were observed in the 500, 1000 or 2000 mg/kg/day both male and female groups. Therefore, the no observed adverse effect level (NOAEL) of ADHEM was considered to be lower than 500 mg/kg/day in both male and female rats.

• 한국근적외분광분석학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국근적외분광분석학회 2001년도 NIR-2001
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• pp.1062-1062
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• 2001

The concept of “precision agriculture” or “site-specific farming” is usually confined to the fields of soil science, crop science and agronomy. However, because plants grow in soil, animals eat plants, and humans eat animal products, it could be argued (perhaps with some poetic licence) that the fields of feed quality, animal nutrition and animal production should also be considered in this context. NIR spectroscopy has proved over the last 20 years that it can provide a firm foundation for quality measurement across all of these fields, and with the continuing developments in instrumentation, computer capacity and software, is now a major cog in the wheel of precision agriculture. There have been a few giant leaps and a lot of small steps in the impact of NIR on the animal world. These have not been confined to the amazing advances in hardware and software, although would not have occurred without them. Rapid testing of forages, grains and mixed feeds by NIR for nutritional value to livestock is now commonplace in commercial laboratories world-wide. This would never have been possible without the pioneering work done by the USDA NIR Forage Research Network in the 1980's, following the landmark paper of Norris et al. in 1976. The advent of calibration transfer between instruments, algorithms which utilize huge databases for calibration and prediction, and the ability to directly scan whole grains and fresh forages can also be considered as major steps, if not leaps. More adventurous NIR applications have emerged in animal nutrition, with emphasis on estimating the functional properties of feeds, such as in vivo digestibility, voluntary intake, protein degradability and in vitro assays to simulate starch digestion. The potential to monitor the diets of grazing animals by using faecal NIR spectra is also now being realized. NIR measurements on animal carcasses and even live animals have also been attempted, with varying degrees of success, The use of discriminant analysis in these fields is proving a useful tool. The latest giant leap is likely to be the advent of relatively low-cost, portable and ultra-fast diode array NIR instruments, which can be used “on-site” and also be fitted to forage or grain harvesters. The fodder and livestock industries are no longer satisfied with what we once thought was revolutionary: a 2-3 day laboratory turnaround for fred quality testing. This means that the instrument needs to be taken to the samples rather than vice versa. Considerable research is underway in this area, but the challenge of calibration transfer and maintenance of instrument networks of this type remains. The animal world is currently facing its biggest challenges ever; animal welfare, alleged effects of animal products on human health, environmental and economic issues are difficult enough, but the current calamities of BSE and foot and mouth disease are “the last straw” NIR will not of course solve all these problems, but is already proving useful in some of these areas and will continue to do so.

• Journal of Animal Science and Technology
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• 제60권2호
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• pp.1.1-1.6
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• 2018

Background: Maize fodder is being used as staple feed for livestock but it lacks protein and essential amino acids; lysine and tryptophan. Intercropping maize with leguminous soybean crop is promising technique under limited land resources of South Korea but it can only give considerable advantages when adequate distance is provided between corn and soybean rows. Main aim of present study was to find-out adequate distance between corn and soybean seeding rows for optimum growth, yield and nutritive value of intercropped forage. Methods: Different interrow distances between corn and soybean were evaluated under four treatments, viz. 1) Corn sole as positive control treatment 2) Zero cm between corn and soybean (control); 2) Five cm between corn and soybean; 3) 10 cm between corn and soybean, with three replicates under randomized block design. Results: Findings depicted that height and number of corn stalks and ears were similar (P > 0.05) among different treatments. Numerically average corn ear height was decreased at zero cm distance. Dry matter percentage in all components; corn stalk, corn ear and soybean was also found not different (P > 0.05) but dry matter yield in component of corn ear was lower (P < 0.05) at zero cm distance as compared to that of 5 and 10 cm interrow distances. In case of nutritive value, total digestible nutrient yield in intercropped corn was also found lower (P < 0.05) at zero cm distance than that of 5 and 10 cm interrow distances between corn and soybean seeding rows. Substantial decrease in dry matter yield of maize ear at zero cm distance might be attributed to factor of closed interrow spacing which made interplant competition more intensified for light interception, necessary for photosynthetic activity. Lower dry matter yield in ear also reduced total digestible nutrients in intercropped maize because it was determining factor in calculation of digestible nutrients. The optimum yield and nutritive value of forage at wider interrow distance i.e. 5 cm between corn and soybean might be due to adequate interseed distance. Conclusion: Conclusively, pattern of corn and soybean seeding in rows at 5 cm distance was found suitable which provided adequate interrow distance to maintain enough mutual cooperation and decreased competition between both species for optimum production performance and nutritive value of intercropped forage.

• 한국초지조사료학회지
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• 제28권3호
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• pp.193-202
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• 2008

국내 보리 소비가 급격히 감소하면서 재배 면적도 줄어들어 겨울철 논을 이용한 보리 재배 농가의 대체 소득원이 보리를 활용한 조사료 생산이다. 경지이용률 제고와 양질의 조사료 공급은 국내 축산 농가의 국제경쟁력을 올릴 수 있어 최근 청보리의 생산은 현저히 증가하고 있는 추세이다. 총체사료용 청보리는 식용보리에 비하여 전체적인 건물수량성이 높아야 하고 가축이 먹기에 좋도록 형태적으로도 개선되어야 한다. 그 동안 개발된 총체사료용 청보리는 벼와의 작부체계에 알맞도록 조숙이면서 건물수량이 ha당 10$\sim$12톤 (생체수량 평균 33톤/ha)을 보이는 영양, 선우, 상원, 소만 등을 개발하였으며, 가축의 기호성이 좋도록 거친 까락을 매끈망으로 개선한 우호, 까락이 퇴화한 삼차망 보리 유연과 줄기에 잎귀를 없애서 부드럽게 만든 다미 등 초형을 개선하였다. 이러한 사료 전용 청보리 품종들은 사료가치도 우수한 것으로 평가되어 육종적으로 개선한 각 품종들의 고유 생육특성을 중심으로 보고하는 바이다.

• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제22권3호
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• pp.416-420
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• 2009

An experiment of one-year duration was conducted on sixteen adult male German Angora rabbits under sub-temperate Himalayan conditions, to assess the effect of seasons on their body weight, wool production and quality, plane of nutrition and the digestibilities of nutrients. The daily meteorological attribute viz. minimum and maximum temperature; relative humidity and rainfall were recorded during winter (October to March), summer (April to June) and rainy (July to September) seasons. Biological parameters viz. body weight at the time of shearing, wool yield of individual rabbit, quality attributes of wool, fortnightly dry matter intake, chemical composition of feed and fodder and digestibilities of nutrients were recorded. Average minimum and maximum ambient temperature during winter, summer and rainy seasons were 4.6${\pm}$1.9 and 21.4${\pm}$2.8; 13.6${\pm}$2 and 30.3${\pm}$2; and 20.0${\pm}$1.4 and $31.0{\pm}1.8^{\circ}C$, respectively. The average relative humidity and total rainfall during winter, summer and rainy season were 69.5${\pm}$2.9% and 74.7${\pm}$21.8 mm; 58.6${\pm}$2.2% and 38.1${\pm}$18.1 mm; and 69${\pm}$4.2% and 104.0${\pm}$43.7 mm, respectively. The body weight of rabbits increased during all seasons, however, the maximum average daily weight gain of 3.47${\pm}$0.1 g was observed during the rainy season. The wool yield differed significantly (p$\leq$0.05) among different seasons with highest (140.4${\pm}$10 g) and lowest (108.5${\pm}$6.9 g) during winter and summer, respectively. The wool yield during the rainy season was 123.3${\pm}$5.2 g. The wool quality attributes revealed non-significant differences for staple length, fiber diameter, medulation percent, percent pure fibers and percent guard hairs. Plane of nutrition revealed significant (p$\leq$0.05) differences for concentrate intake. The concentrate intake was highest during winter (124.4${\pm}$2.6 g) followed by summer (86.8${\pm}$8.9 g) and rainy (80.7${\pm}$11.8 g) seasons. The reverse trend was observed in roughage intake with significantly (p${\leq}$0.05) lower intake during winter and highest during summer months. As a result total dry matter intake during different seasons was similar. Significant differences (p${\leq}$0.05) were observed for digestibilities of crude protein, crude fiber, ether extract, acid detergent fiber and cellulose. Digestibility of crude protein was highest during winter whereas the digestibilities of crude fiber, ether extract, acid detergent fiber and cellulose remained higher during the rainy season. During the winter season, the dry matter used for producing 100 g of wool was substantially lower than during other seasons and was concluded to be the best season for production of Angora wool under subtemperate Himalayan conditions.

• 대한환경공학회지
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• 제30권8호
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• pp.768-774
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• 2008

하수슬러지 고화물이 매립지에 미치는 영향을 평가하기 위하여 모형매립조 실험을 수행하였다. 모형매립조는 총 3기를 제작하였으며, 충전물질은 퇴비와 사료, 모래를 각각 10 : 10 : 80으로 혼합하여 충전하였고, 복토재는 개발한 중성계 고화제로 하수 슬러지를 고화한 G고화물(LR1), 알칼리성 고화재로 고화한 A고화물(LR2), 마사토(LR3)로 하였다. 이를 30 $\pm$ 2$^{\circ}C$의 항온실에서 약450일 동안 운전한 결과 누적발생가스발생량과 VS성분에 따른 가스발생량, CO$_2$와 CH$_4$의 누적발생량은 LR2 > LR1 > LR3순 나타났다. 그리고 LR1, LR2, LR3의 COD$_{Cr}$변화를 살펴본 결과 LR1의 COD$_{Cr}$농도는 LR3와 같이 지속적으로 감소하는 것으로 나타나 G고화물은 침출수의 COD$_{Cr}$에는 영향을 미치지 않는 것으로 나타났다. LR2는 250일경 재슬러리화되어 COD$_{Cr}$농도가 증가하고 있다. 그리고 T-N, T-P농도에 있어서도 LR3의 농도가 높은 것으로 보아, 하수슬러지고화물 복토에 의한 침출수의 T-N, T-P에는 영향이 미미한 것으로 판단된다.

• 한국토양비료학회지
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• 제34권3호
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• pp.165-172
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• 2001

가축사육으로 인해 매년 막대한 가축분이 발생하고 있으며, 그 처리방안 또한 여러 가지로 모색되고 있는 실정이다. 그러나, 밭농사를 영위함으로 인해 질소비료를 대체할 수 있는 가축분(돈분, 계분)의 양을 소화능으로 계산해 보았으며, 그 얻은 결과는 다음과 같다. 1. 우리나라의 가축분 발생량은 2000년도 기준으로 볼 때 년간 돈분 4,592,375톤, 계분 4,488,166톤이며, 이것을 질소 비료성분으로 환산할 경우, 돈분은 41,911톤, 계분 76,222톤의 질소비료성분에 해당하는 양이다. 2. 가축분 소화능이란 "토양에 가축분을 시용했을 때 토양자체가 역기능을 발휘하기 바로 직전까지의 최대소화량"이라고 정의 하였으며, 밭토양의 가축분 소화능계산 방법은 아래 식을 이용하여 계산하였다. 밭토양의 질소비료 대체 가축분 소화능(kg/10a) = 작물별 질소 표준시비량 / [(가축분중 T-N함량)${\times}$(가축분의 질소비효가용화율)] 3. 밭토양의 년간 질소비료 대체가능 가축분 소화능은 돈분 1,142.gkg/10a, 계분540.9 kg/10a으로 평가되었다. 4. 밭농사의 가축분 소화능의 작목별 기여도는 채소 > 과수 > 잡곡 > 맥류 > 서류 )> 두류 > 특작 > 초지 > 뽕밭 순이었다.