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Institutional Improvement of Irrigation Management System in Korea

  • Chung, Sang-Ok
    • Magazine of the Korean Society of Agricultural Engineers
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    • v.44 no.7
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    • pp.74-82
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    • 2002
  • There are two major operation and management (O & M) systems in Korea, one by the Korea Agricultural and Rural Infrastructure Corporation (KARICO), a government corporation, and the other by non-KARICO, which includes Irrigation associations (IAs) and individual farmers under the supervision of city or county authorities. Main issues and constraints in the irrigation facility management are: (1) The dual system of the irrigation water management system; management by KARICO and that by IAs, and (2) From the commencement of KAICO in 2000, farmers were exempted from water charge. This is opposite to the international trend, which follows' user pay principle: Main specific strategies to improve irrigation management system are: (1) Introduction of water metering for water charge as well as water conservation, (2) Adoption of demand-oriented irrigation rather than supply-oriented to reduce waste of water, (3) To augment farmer's participation by forming water user associations, (4) To maintain consistency of government policy, (5) To promote roles of local governments, and (6) To reestablish the role of KARICO.

Interpretation of Vertical Electrical Sounding Data in Saltwater Intrusion Area using Geostatistical Method (지구통계분석을 이용한 해수침투지역에서의 전기비저항탐사 자료 해석)

  • Song Sung-Ho;Lee Gyu-Sang;Yong Hwan-Ho;Kim Jin-Sung;Seong Baek-Uk;Woo Myung-Ha
    • 한국지구물리탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2005.05a
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    • pp.59-64
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    • 2005
  • Although experimental analysis for groundwater sample at wells located systematically are very effective to delineate seawater intrusion region at coastal area, this method is restricted in few wells and time. We have conducted electrical resistivity sounding at 30 points in the study areas to analyze the region of seawater intrusion and found the boundary between salt wedge and fresh water lens from the analysis results of geostatistical method using variogram for one-dimensional inversion results. The methodology adopted in this study would be useful for finding the seawater intrusion region and evaluating quantitatively.

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Effects of Transplanting Time and Vinyl-film Mulching Treatment on the Biomass Production of Artemisia annua L. in the Saemangeum Reclaimed Tidal Lands in Korea

  • Song, Jae-Do;Sohn, Yong-Man;Lee, Myung-Hi;Jeon, Geon-Yeong;Kim, Doo-Hwan;Park, Moo-Eon
    • Korean Journal of Soil Science and Fertilizer
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    • v.44 no.1
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    • pp.29-37
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    • 2011
  • The experiment was carried out to find the effects of transplanting time and vinyl-film mulching treatment on the growth of artemisia by randomized block design with three replications. The experiment site ($100{\times}130$ m) was temporally established in the south-eastern part of Saemangeum reclaimed tidal land (near Gwanghwal myun, Gimjae-gun, Jellabukdo). Artemisia plants had been partly suffered from salt injury, because soil salinities in some area during growing period had been measured higher than 10 dS $m^{-1}$. Growth of plant height and survival ratio of transplanted plants had been significantly correlated with soil salinity and then the regression equations between plant height (y) and soil EC (x) and between survival ratio (y) and soil EC (x) were expressed as y=-16.59ln(x)+43.852 and $y=0.6453x^2-17.566x+103.99$, respectively. It was concluded that early transplanting and vinyl mulching was more beneficial for biomass production of artemisia, because biomass was 6.41 times more in the early transplanting than in the late transplanting, and 2.63 times more in the vinyl-film mulching than in the no mulching treatment.

Effect of Flooding and Soil Salinity on the Growth of Yam (Dioscorea batatas) Transplanted by Seedling of Aerial Bulblet in Saemangeum Reclaimed Tidal Land

  • Sohn, Yong-Man;Song, Jae-Do;Jeon, Geon-Yeong;Kim, Doo-Hwan;Park, Moo-Eon
    • Korean Journal of Soil Science and Fertilizer
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    • v.44 no.1
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    • pp.8-14
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    • 2011
  • The effect of flooding and soil salinity on the growth of yam (Dioscorea batatas) were studied on the experimantal site temporally established in the south-eastern part of Saemangeum Reclaimed Tidal Land (near Gwanghwal myun, Gimjae-gun, Jellabukdo, Korea). Yam seedlings planted by using aerial bulblet as alternative of sliced tubers, were grown for 20-days and transplanted in black-vinyl mulched ridges (about 20 cm in height) at 70cm interval by $20{\times}60cm$ spacing in the $4^{th}$ of May, 2010. Soil salinity was maintained at lower than 1.2 ds $m^{-1}$ during the growing period and did not result to salt injury in all plants. However, flooding injury very seriously led to plant death and plant mortality rates at $67{\pm}21$ and $82{\pm}9%$ of yam plants in the compost and no compost treatment, respectively, died by heavy flooding during the rainy summer season. The main reasons of the flooding injury included the decreased rainfall acceptable capacity (RAC) after the rising of water table and a slowdown of water infiltration rate after the formation of an impermeable soil crust in the furrow bottom with continuous and heavy downpour during the rainy summer season. The effect of compost treatment was not statistically observed because of the severe spatial difference caused by wet injury, although yam tuber yield was higher at 30 kg $10^{-1}$ in the compost treatment than in the no-compost treatment at 20 kg $10^{-1}$. However, the size of tuber ranged at 1.23 to 1.60 cm in diameter and 3.7 to 5.0 cm in length in all both treatment, which means they are still reproducible for the next cropping season. Conclusively, proper counter-flooding measure and soil salinity control critically important for successful yam production in Saemangeum Reclaimed Tidal Land.