• 제목/요약/키워드: Rural forest

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Distribution and Traditional Practice on Neem in the Rural Homesteads of Chittagong Coastal Plain of Bangladesh

  • Miah, Md. Danesh;Hossain, Mohammed Anwar;Muhammed, Nur;Sin, Man Yong
    • 한국산림과학회지
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    • 제95권5호
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    • pp.524-531
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    • 2006
  • Neem tree (Azadirachta indica), native to the Indian sub-continent, has been known since the ancient time for its medicinal and insect repellent properties. In recent years, Neem has attracted global attention due to its potential as a source of natural drugs and also environment-friendly pesticides. In the households. The distribution and traditional practice on Neem can be important to the agriculturist, ethno-pharmaceutical developers and to the rural development practitioners in Bangladesh. An exploratory survey on the distribution and traditional practice on Neem tree in the rural homesteads of Chittagong coastal plain, Bangladesh, was conducted over a period of three months from September 2002 to November 2002. It was found that maximum, 64% households used seedling as planting material having 40% maximum sources Within the major tree species present in the homesteads, Neem accounted for 12% among the total individuals. It was found that the availability of Neem trees was found maximum, 31%, in the homesteads of medium sized households. Maximum, 42% individuals of Neem were found within the DBH of 10.1 to 20 cm; and 37% within the 3.1 to 6 m height classes. Neem trees were found to be used maximum, 88% for furniture. The findings of the study will be of immense importance for the rural development practitioners and ethno pharmacological developers in Bangladesh.

Traditional Coconut Farming in the Rural Landscape of Meghna Floodplain in Bangladesh

  • Miah, Md. Danesh;Islam, Mohammed Ohidul;Hossain, Md. Aktark;Shin, Man Yong
    • 한국산림과학회지
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    • 제94권5호통권162호
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    • pp.342-348
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    • 2005
  • An exploratory survey was performed to assess the present status of distribution and production of coconut palm (Cocos nucifera Linn.) in the rural landscape of Meghna floodplain of Bangladesh. A multistage simple random sampling technique was adopted to identify the study area and respondents. A total of 50 households were selected randomly for the study. Traditional knowledge on cultivation, management, and production of coconut palm was emphasized. Marketing of coconut palm products and income derived from coconut palm cultivation was taken into consideration. Perceptions of farmers, traders and professionals were described in due context of opportunities and constraints of coconut palm cultivation. Coconut palm cultivation was found to play an important role in household economy in rural Bangladesh sharing considerable contribution to the total income. About 10% of their total annual income was reported to come from coconut husbandry. Highest number of the coconut palms, 24%, was found to grow in the homestead compounds and in the pond banks. About one-third lands of the households were found to be covered by the coconut palms. Maximum, 19%, coconut palms were found in the 16-20 years age-class. Production of coconut was found highest at the age-class 11-15 years. The study found some important opportunities and constraints of coconut farming in rural Meghna floodplain area of Bangladesh. The results of this study would be useful for the rural development practitioners in Bangladesh.

연결성 분석을 활용한 산림의 주연부와 내부의 탄소저장량 비교 (Comparison of Carbon Stock Between Forest Edge and Core by Using Connectivity Analysis)

  • 성선용;이동근;모용원
    • 농촌계획
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    • 제21권4호
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    • pp.27-33
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    • 2015
  • Forest ecosystem is considered as an important stepping stone to minimize the impact of climate change. However, the rapid urbanization has caused fragmentation of forest ecosystem. The fragmentation of forest patch results in edge effect which brings about adverse impacts on forest function and structure. Degradation of forest ecosystem decreases carbon sequestration because edge effect reduces productivity. Therefore, we analyzed the impact of forest edge effect on forest ecosystem carbon stock change in Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi-do. We used connectivity analysis to determine forest edge and core area. The field study sites were selected with considering forest age, density, class and soil type. Secondly, forest carbon stock was calculated with allometric equation. The soil carbon stock was derived from Walkely-Black method. Lastly, Mann-Whitney test was conducted to validate differences between carbon stock in edge and core area. As a result of study, the connectivity analysis was effective to determine forest edge and core. The core and edge of forest patch showed different composition of tree species and soil properties. Carbon stock per tree in the edge area was lower than that in the core area. However, the difference of soil organic carbon content between the edge and core were relatively small. This assessment can be applied for the conservation of forest patch as well as quantitative assessment on the forest carbon stock change caused by fragmentation.

근거이론을 이용한 산림복지서비스 이용권 제도 도입 방안 분석 (A study on the Direction of Forest Welfare Service Voucher System by Grounded Theory)

  • 조한솔;서정원;김성학
    • 농촌계획
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    • 제20권4호
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    • pp.113-125
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    • 2014
  • After Forest Service formed a forest welfare service system by life cycle in 2008, they established a variety of policy for promoting welfare of the people. In Forest welfare service plan(2013~2017) which recently the forest service department established to along with government's welfare policy, they introduce forest welfare service voucher linked to National welfare system to provide forest welfare actively to disadvantaged citizen. The purpose of this study is to setup a direction of forest voucher system, and to make strategies of forest welfare service voucher by research existing voucher system of government. A study conducts a qualitative research by use grounded theory without a quantitative research, because there is not a lot of similar cases with forest welfare service voucher. The subject of this study is experts of National Park Authority 's voucher management, forest service's Nature recreation management and relevant researcher institution. The research is conducted by interviewing the subject and by using grounded theory analysis. After processing an opening coding, categorization of opening coding, and axis coding, induce a direction of the forest welfare service voucher system.

Households' Characteristics, Forest Resources Dependency and Forest Availability in Central Terai of Nepal

  • Panta, Menaka;Kim, Kyehyun;Lee, Cholyoung
    • 한국산림과학회지
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    • 제98권5호
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    • pp.548-557
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    • 2009
  • For centuries, forests have been a key component of rural livelihood. They are important both socially and economically in Nepal. Firewood and fodder are the basic forest products that are extracted daily or weekly basis in most of the rural areas in Nepal. In this study, a field survey of 100 households was conducted to examine the degree of forest dependency and forest resource availability, households' livelihood strategy and their relationship with forest dependency in Chitwan, Nepal. A household' response indexes were constructed, Gini coefficient, Head Count Poverty Index (HCI) and Poverty Gap Index (PGI) were calculated and one way ANOVA test was also performed for data analysis. Data revealed that 82/81% of all households were constantly used forest for firewood and fodder collection respectively while 42% of households were used forest or forest fringe for grazing. The Forest Product Availability Indexes (FPAI) showed a sharp decline of forest resources from 0.781 to 0.308 for a 20-yr time horizon while timber wood was noticeably lowered than the other products. Yet, about 33% of households were below the poverty threshold line with 0.0945 PGI. Income distribution among the household showed a lower Gini coefficient 0.25 than 0.37 of landholdings size. However, mean income was significantly varies with F-statistics=246.348 at P=0.05 between income groups (rich, medium and poor). The extraction of firewood, fodder and other forest products were significantly different between the income group with F-statistics=16.480, 19.930, 29.956 at P=0.05 respectively. Similarly, landholdings size and education were also significantly different between the income groups with F-statistics=4.333, 5.981 at P=0.05 respectively. These findings suggested that income status of households was the major indicator of forest dependency while poor and medium groups were highly dependent on the forests for firewood, fodder and other products. Forest dependency still remains high and the availability of forest products that can be extracted from the remaining forestlands is decreasing. The high dependency of households on forest coupled with other socioeconomic attributes like education, poverty, small landholders and so on were possibly caused the forest degradation in Chitwan.Therefore, policy must be directed towards the poor livelihood supporting agenda that may enhance the financial conditions of rural households while it could reduce the degree of forest dependency inspired with other income generating activities in due course.

Effects of formulation including pretreated wood as a component of a growing media for tall fescue(Festuca arundinacea)

  • Choi, Myung-Suk;Ha, Si Young;Jung, Ji Young;Kim, Ji Su;Nam, Jeong Bin;Yang, Jae-Kyung
    • 농업생명과학연구
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    • 제50권1호
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    • pp.137-146
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    • 2016
  • This experiment was designed to assess the physical and chemical properties of growing media substituted with a range of increasing concentrations of pretreated wood and to relate these properties to plant growth responses. For preparing the growing media, each material was combined with rural soil, peat, perlite and pretreated wood. Physicochemical properties studied were similar to ideal substrate ranges for plant growth on growing media, including pretreated wood. Physical properties were also well maintained over time. In comparison to plants growing in 100% rural soil, tall fescue(Festuca arundinacea) in the prepared growing media achieved better growth, especially when using the 50% rural soil + 50% PPW(peat + perlite + pretreated wood, 3:1:6(w/w/w)) and 30% rural soil + 70% PPW (peat + perlite + pretreated wood, 3:1:6(w/w/w)), and showed improved germination percentage. We confirmed the potential use of growing media, including pretreated wood. Furthermore, our results show a correlation among the physicochemical properties of tall fescue(Festuca arundinacea); physical properties were significantly influenced by germination and aerial parts. The root length of physicochemical properties was correlated with bulk density and organic compound (p<0.01).

Random Forest를 이용한 남한지역 쌀 수량 예측 연구 (Rice yield prediction in South Korea by using random forest)

  • 김준환;이주석;상완규;신평;조현숙;서명철
    • 한국농림기상학회지
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    • 제21권2호
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    • pp.75-84
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    • 2019
  • 이 연구의 목적은 random forest 를 활용하여 기상요소만을 이용하여 우리나라 전체의 벼 평균수량을 예측하는데 있다. Random forest 는 예측에 사용되는 각 predictor variable 을 분리할 수 있는데 이를 통해 분리된 시계열 상의 추세가 비정상적인 증가형태를 보였다. 이는 결국 예측능력의 저하로 이어지기 때문에 이를 제거할 필요가 있고 본 연구에서는 이동 평균을 이용하여 제거한 후 예측을 하였다. 1991 년부터 2005 년까지의 기상자료와 수량자료를 학습에 사용하였고 2006 년부터 2015 년까지의 자료들을 검증용으로 사용하였다. 학습자료에 대해서는 상당히 정확한 예측 능력을 보여주었으나 검증 자료에서는 그렇지 못하였다. 그 이유를 분석하기 위해 학습 자료와 검증자료에 대해서 각각 변수 중요도를 산출하여 비교한 결과 두 자료 간에 월별 기상 자료에 대한 중요도가 변동되었음을 발견하였다. 이러하 차이가 발생한 이유는 학습자료와 검증 자료에서의 전국적으로 표준이앙기가 이동하여 벼의 생육기간 자체가 변하였기 때문이다. 따라서, 정확한 예측을 위해서는 지역별 파종기 또는 이앙기에 대한 자료가 필요하며 단순히 기상 자료만을 활용한 예측은 어려운 것으로 생긱된다.

자연산 임산물에 대한 소비자 인식 (Consumer's Recognition on Naturally-Grown Forest Products)

  • 민경택;구자춘;김명은
    • 한국산림과학회지
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    • 제104권4호
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    • pp.668-676
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    • 2015
  • 이 논문은 자연산 임산물에 대한 소비자 인식을 조사하여 수요측면에서 산림복합경영 활성화 방안을 제시하는 데 목적이 있다. 이를 위해 도시 가구 640명을 대상으로 인터넷 설문조사를 실시하였다. 소비자들이 산지재배 임산물을 구입하는 이유는 영양 효능과 안전성 때문이며, 같은 임산물이라도 밭 재배보다 품질이 우수하다고 응답하였다. 산지재배 임산물이 친환경 밭 재배 작물보다 선호되기는 하지만 자연산 인정 여부에는 차이를 보이지 않았다. 소비자들이 임산물 속성 가운데 중요시하는 요소는 품질과 효능으로 나타나 이를 강조하는 마케팅이 요구된다. 소득이 증가하면 신선도와 가격보다 자연산 여부를 중요하게 여기는 것으로 나타났으며 채취체험이 자연산 임산물 구매에 긍정적 영향을 주는 것으로 나타났다. 이러한 결과들은 산림복합경영의 활성화를 위해 자연산 인증을 통해 소비자 신뢰를 획득하고 체험 관광과 연계하는 6차산업화 추진이 필요하다는 것을 시사한다.