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Economic Feasibility Analysis for Development of Small Hydropower Using Agricultural Reservoirs (농업용 저수지의 소수력 개발을 위한 경제성 분석)

  • Woo, Jae-Yeoul;Kim, Jin-Soo;Jang, Hoon;Kim, Young-Hyeon
    • Journal of The Korean Society of Agricultural Engineers
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    • v.53 no.2
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    • pp.53-60
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    • 2011
  • This study was conducted to investigate the effect of hydropower factors (watershed, gross head), operation ratio and unit electricity cost on the benefit-cost ratio (B/C ratio) of small hydropower using agricultural reservoirs. The equation of B/C ratio was expressed as a function of watershed area, gross head, operation ratio and unit electricity cost. The benefit increased with watershed area, gross head and unit electricity cost, while the cost increased with watershed area and gross head but decreased with operation ratio. The B/C ratio increased with watershed area, gross head, operation ratio and unit electricity cost. While the effect of gross head on the B/C ratio decreased with watershed area, the effect of operation ratio and unit electricity cost on the B/C ratio increased with watershed area. The operation ratio is an important factor to affect the B/C ratio and therefore we need to develop hydropower for the heightened dams to expect high operation ratio due to continuous water release. The unit electricity cost is also an important factor to affect the B/C ratio and the B/C ratio was always below 1 unless unit electricity cost is over 60 Won/kWh under given conditions. The reservoirs with economic feasibility for small hydropower development were three in 21 when the equation of B/C ratio was appled to the study reservoirs. The results can be used to choose the appropriate reservoir with economic feasibility for development of small hydropower.

Chronological Role of the Soil Research in Korea - Analysis of Research Reports on Soil from 1906 to 2012 -

  • Yun, Sun-Gang;Kwon, Soon-Ik;Hong, Seung-Chang;Kim, Min-Kyeong;Chae, Mi-Jin;Park, Chan-Won;Jung, Goo-Bok
    • Korean Journal of Soil Science and Fertilizer
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    • v.46 no.5
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    • pp.303-307
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    • 2013
  • Research reports on soil during the years from 1906 to 2012 have been analyzed to understand the role and pattern of soil research in agriculture. The number of research reports in relation with the key word of soils were 2,211 cases and classified in accordance with the criteria of research area, research subject, and research place of report papers. During the 40 years from 1906 to 1946, research work on soil chemistry was reached 62%, highest in the research area. In the case of research subject, research reports on soil fertility and soil nutrients was highest as 42.2%, and the next subject on soil salt and desalinization was about 19.5%. Research places were in the order of paddy as 34.1%, upland as 23.7%, and reclaimed soil as 22.5%. From 1953 to 2012 during 60 years, in the research area report papers were mainly concentrated on chemistry area as 32% and the next was physics as 26%, and environment as 12%. In the case of research subject during the same period, nutrient management report was reached 21.1%, and soil improvement on chemical and physical properties for optimum crop growth was 11.9%. Soil survey and data base establishment report was 8.6%. Research place were in the order of upland as 34.9%, paddy as 25.7%, and vinyl house as 12.5%, which showed reversed pattern compared to that of before 40 years.

Trace Metal Contents in Urine of School Children around the Industrial Park Area (일부 공단주변 국민학생의 요중 중금속 함량에 관한 연구)

  • Hwang, In-Dam;Son, Wi-Ik
    • 산업보건소식
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    • no.48
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    • pp.9-18
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    • 1987
  • The results of this study which had been investigated to analyse heavy metal levels and to compare lead, cadmium, copper and zinc concentration in urine of children who lived around the industrial area and the agricultural area. Samples were collected and analyzed from September to December 1986 from 7-9 years old children living in Seoul (4 7 cases), lri ( 64 cases) industrial area and Chinan (56 cases) agricultural area. The summarized results were as follows: 1) The concentrations of lead were Seoul 28.7 $\pm$17.7 ug/l, lri 25.3 $\pm$7.5 ug/l and Chinan 19.3 $\pm$5.2 ug/l 2) The concentrations of cadmium were Seoul 1.5 $\pm$0.8 ug/l, Iri 1.4 $\pm$0.5 ug/l and chinan 0.9 $\pm$0.3 ug/l 3) The concentrations of copper were Seoul 12.8 $\pm$7.0 ug/l, Iri 10.5 $\pm$8.4 ug/l and Chinan 10.0 $\pm$4.5 ug/l 4) The concentrations of zinc were Seoul 383 $\pm$279 ug/l, Iri 329 $\pm$133 ug/l and Chinan 267 $\pm$181 ug/l 5) In lead, cadmium and zinc concentration of children, there were statistical difference between the industrial area and the agricultural area 6) There were no indicated significantly levels by the Sex

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Changes of Anthocyanidin, Growth Characteristics and Brown Rice Yield of Red Colored Rice at Two Region of Eastern Coast in Gyeongsangbuk-do Province

  • Kim, Sang-Kuk;Kim, Se-Jong;Shin, Jong-Hee
    • Korean Journal of Plant Resources
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    • v.30 no.3
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    • pp.318-322
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    • 2017
  • The study was carried out to determine the changes of growth characteristics, anthocyanidin, and brown rice yield grown at coast and inland areas apart from the east coastline of Gyeongsangbuk-do province. Number of spikelets per panicle was much more increased in inland area. Regional difference in number of spikelets per panicle was observed in Jeongjinju cultivar. Among these red rice cultivars, the highest brown rice yield was Jeongjinju rice cultivar having 702 kg in inland area and 692 ㎏ in coast area, respectively. Anthocyanidin content ranged 524 to $610{\mu}g/g$ dry weight basis. Cyanidin content was 11.4 to 14.0 times higher than that of delphinidin under coast and inland area. Anthocyanidin content was higher in rice cultivar grown at coast area. Highest head brown rice rate was only observed in Geonganghongmi to 95.2 at coast area and 95.4 inland area. In considering brown rice yield and pigment content, Hongjinju rice cultivar was recommended in optimal pigment rice cultivar in eastern coast of Gyeongsangbuk-do Province.

Relationship between Single-households Elderly Spatial Distribution and Public Transport Accessibility for Rural Social Service Improvement (농촌 사회서비스 정책 지원을 위한 농촌 고령일인가구 분포와 대중교통 접근성의 관계 분석)

  • Park, Ro-Un;Park, Mee-Jeong;Shin, Min-Ji;Kim, Sang-Bum
    • Journal of Agricultural Extension & Community Development
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    • v.26 no.2
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    • pp.99-111
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    • 2019
  • This paper aims to analysize the regional disparity of rural life service. In other words, analyzing the spatial distribution of the single-households elderly and service accessibility to public transportation, and the relationship between them in rural. The results of this study are as follows. First, there is a high concentration of the single-households elderly in Gyeongsangbuk-do and Jeollanam-do, and the distribution of them shows a tendency to cluster locally. Second, the vulnerability area of public transportation are concentrated on the myeon area. Third, The above-average proportion of vulnerable single-households elderly in Gyeongsangbuk-do and Jeollanam-do are concentrated on the myeon area. This result show that there is a positive correlation and high values are concentrated. This paper is expected to contribute to the regional development projects and effective implementation of rural polices.

Studies on Design Theories of the Rubber Crawler for a Farm Machinery

  • Matsuo, T.;Inaba, S.;Sakai, J.;Inoue, E.
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society for Agricultural Machinery Conference
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    • 1993.10a
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    • pp.1202-1211
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    • 1993
  • The authors propose in this research the equation to calculate the velocities, accelerations and penetration angles of the locus of lug motion for the rubber crawler mechanism. In these equations with some values of factors, motion characteristics of all points or faces of the lug in the front-half a rubber crawler. After that we also consider the reactionary force from the soil to the lug by computing the removed soil area for the purpose of understanding a relation between crawler lug and the soil in the terms of estimating trafficability.

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Minimizing the Environmental Pollution of Pig Husbandry and Waste Management

  • Mszros, Gy;Kuli, B.;Fenyvesi, L.;Mtys, L.
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society for Agricultural Machinery Conference
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    • 1993.10a
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    • pp.1395-1404
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    • 1993
  • Application of water-saving self-feeders can reduce water consumption of pigs by more than 50% . so the feeding-watering system one of the most important way of the reduction of the slurry. Bioactive deep litter housing can eliminate slurry. Matured urine, faeces and litter can use for the purposes of soil conditioning and fertilizing . Water-saving slurry handling technology can halve manure dilution so it can double the nutrient content of the slurry. By using of straw bale biofilter for reducing emissions of pig houses makes fattening of pigs possible close to populated area. Developed rate control system for slurry application make avoiding over-fertilization possible , can fulfill better the demand of nutrient of plants. By means of computer aided manure utilization system area distribution of soil characteristics can determinate . The system is suitable for planning the utilization of manure and slurry in environment -friendly way.

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Prospect and Directions for Chungnam's Regional Agriculture Post Uruguay Round Agreements (UR이후 충남농업(忠南農業)의 전망(展望)과 대응방안(對應方案))

  • Kwon, Young Dae
    • Korean Journal of Agricultural Science
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    • v.21 no.2
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    • pp.168-181
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    • 1994
  • This paper reviews the development of Uruguay Round of GATT talks and forecasts its effect on regional agriculture particularly concerning Chungnarn provincial agriculture. Since agriculture is composed of main industry for Chungnam economy, as imports of cheap agricultural products increase, domestic price of farm products will rapidly decrease so that it might discourage domestic production and have severe adverse consequences in regional farm economy. To cope with agricultural trade liberalization, directions which regional agriculture should pursue are suggested as follows; 1) to establish the integrated rural development strategy so as to improve living conditions in rural area equivalent to urban area, 2) to adjust the agricultural institute system facing diversification of farming type, 3) to encourage commercialized farmers in order to maintain adequate farm income, 4) to increase R&D investment on comparatively advanced technology compared with other regions, 5) to foster farmers' organization and to rear young farmers to protect family farms.

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A Study on Tourist Psychological Capacity of Scenic and Historic Area and Its Influencing Factors - A Case Study of Mount Tai Scenic Spot

  • Cao, Lin-Sen;Piao, Yong-Ji;Zhang, Rui;Cho, Tae-Dong
    • Journal of Environmental Science International
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    • v.23 no.5
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    • pp.755-761
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    • 2014
  • Tourist Psychological Capacity (TPC) is an important issue of the Tourism Capacity research. We gained the tourist satisfaction through the questionnaire investigation in Mount Tai Scenic Area and obtained the tourist satisfaction function using SPSS17.0 regression analysis method. Then we got the best psychological capacity of tourists with the Marginal Satisfaction Method. Finally we verified the influencing factors on TPC. The study found that the best TPC of Mount Tai Scenic Area is 10323 persons; Female shows lower TPC than male. Moreover, female satisfaction is more easily influenced by visitors' number increasing than male satisfaction; TPC plays negative correlation with the increasing of age. Teenagers and adults have no much difference in TPC, but the seniors present a relatively lower TPC than other; The higher education, the smaller TPC.

A Study on the Socio-economic Effects of U-turn Migration in Rural Area (귀농(歸農)이 농촌사회(農村社會)에 미치는 영향(影響)에 관한 연구(硏究))

  • Kim, Jai-Hong
    • Korean Journal of Agricultural Science
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    • v.25 no.1
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    • pp.138-147
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    • 1998
  • U-turn migration is one of the prominent phenomenon after IMF controlled Korean economy. However a number of U-turn migrants were settled in rural area before that time. This paper is aims at studying the socio-economic effects of U-turn migration in rural area. The study results are summarized as follows; First, migrants are relatively young and engaged in overall parts of the farming. The farmer with age under 50 is represented at 71.4% of migrants comparing with 53.7% of those farmers in rural area. Second, owing to the increasing number of U-turn migrants, the decreasing price of rural wages, the decreasing of idle land, and the increasing price of farm land are the outstanding phenomenon at present. Third, even though there are many kinds of supporting systems for U-turn migrants, the systems are not so successfully functioned. For the successful supporting system they must be changed for the individual migrant rather than target group.

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