• 농업과학연구
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• 제23권2호
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• pp.323-329
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• 1996

This paper is aims at studying the economics of scale of sweet potato cultivation. Sweet potato is one of the decreasing crop. Its cultivated areas has been decreasing more rapidly than soybean or corn. In this paper 23 farmers were surveyed, including 8 families with less than 1 ha, 7 families with 1-5 ha, and 8 families with more than 5 ha. The results are as follows; First, sweet potato cultivation is good for specialization, considering the high income per acre. Second, there is no good evidence explaining for the economy of scale of sweet potato cultivation, but there is an evidence for the profit of specialization. Large scale farmers have more incomes per acre, lather than more production or less management costs, by means of good sales methods. Third, mechanization of sweet potato cultivation is one of the key factor for successful large scale sweet potato cultivations.

• 농업과학연구
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• 제20권2호
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• pp.211-220
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• 1993

Sustainable agriculture is a management system for ecological equilibrium and long-run productivity. Conversions from conventional to sustainable farming systems could have good effects on future generations' productivity and agricultural market opening in Korea. However, farmers are not willing to adopt sustainable farming system as because of farm income reductions, so government programs may be needed. Government programs should have research support for cost reductions, direct support for advocational livestock breedings and income security, and relative price changes for reducing agricultural chemicals.

• 농업과학연구
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• 제32권1호
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• pp.95-106
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• 2005

This study was focused on analyzing the impacts of e-commerce on the farmer's management behavior and suggesting alternatives for the development of e-commerce in agricultural industry. For this study, survey was conducted for 24 farmers who sell agricultural products through e-commerce in Chungnam province. The results of study are as follows; First, farmers have changed their management practices in terms of production, marketing and processing by using the information of consumers' preferences while doing e-commerce business. Second, farmers have attempted to differentiate their product through product brand and customer relationship marketing, because they recognized the importance of developing marketing techniques adapted to e-commerce system for more revenues. Third, if quality certification system of agricultural products is introduced under e-commerce, farmers would use it for their environmentally sounded farming because they expect to increase their income. Fourth, 75% of the farmers sold their product at retail price. It means that e-commerce farmers act as a price maker rather than price taker at e-commerce market, who will be encouraged to have larger business size resulting in more added value. Based on the results of study, we suggest that there should be reduction of service charge for credit card, and encouragement of B2B transaction for the economy of scale and introduction of quality certification system so as to establish e-commerce system of agricultural industry as soon as possible.

• 한국농림기상학회지
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• 제20권4호
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• pp.305-312
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• 2018

기후변화에 대한 논의가 지속되면서 다양한 영역에서 이와 관련된 연구가 진행되고 있다. 농업은 기후와 가장 밀접하게 관련된 산업으로, 기후변화와 그에 따른 이상기후에 의해 생산성이 크게 달라질 수 있다. 본 연구에서는 기후변화 및 이상기후에 따른 작목별 농산물의 생산성 변화를 살펴보고, 이상기후 종류별 발효횟수가 증가함에 따라 비효율성이 증가하는 작목을 분류하였다. 이상기후를 대리할 수 있는 자료로 기상청에서 발표하는 기상특보의 발효횟수를 활용하였고, 분석에 고려된 기상특보의 종류에는 강풍특보, 호우특보, 대설특보, 건조특보, 한파특보, 태풍특보, 폭염특보가 있다. 8개 과수 작목의 생산 효율성 대해 각 기상특보의 발효횟수가 미치는 영향을 확률적 프런티어 분석을 통해 살펴본 결과 한파특보와 대설특보가 많은 수의 과수작목에 부정적인 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 농촌진흥청의 농산물 소득조사 자료를 활용한 상기 분석결과는 기후변화와 다양한 이상기후에 대한 국내 농업의 대응전략을 효율적으로 수립하는 데 기초자료로써 활용될 수 있다고 판단된다.

• Safety and Health at Work
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• 제5권3호
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• pp.147-151
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• 2014

Background: Agriculture ranks among the most dangerous trades worldwide. There is, however, still a lack of knowledge on nonfatal injuries in agriculture. The aim of this study was to describe the nature and occurrence of nonfatal injuries in farmers in two counties in central Norway. Methods: A questionnaire was sent to 7,004 farmers in Norway. We asked for information about the respondents and the farm, whether the farmer had had work-related injuries on the farm during the past 12 months, and details about the incidence and seriousness of the injury. Results: A total of 2,699 respondents gave a response rate of 42%. Of the respondents, 249 (9.2%) reported one or more work-related injuries. The most usual cause of injury involved an animal, and >75% of these happened inside the outbuilding. Among these, 17.5% had a consequence of sick leave or a more serious result. When all the accidents were analyzed by stepwise logistic regression, only the variables: works alone, has >3,500 stipulated working hours at the farm, and the type of production were statistical significant explanatory variables for having an injury. Conclusion: Incorporating safety aspects to a greater extend in the design and construction of outbuildings would make a substantial contribution to injury prevention in agriculture.

• 한국작물학회지
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• 제45권5호
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• pp.335-338
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• 2000

The technology of direct-seeding in rice cultivation is an innovation mainly induced by factors in market economy and is rapidly diffused among individual farmhouses. Because the effect of technology can be affected by many factors under various farming circumstances, the impact and stability of the direct-seeding technology compared with transplanting was analyzed under various topographical regions. Yield in direct-seeding was higher in plains, although the farm size producing higher yield was quite different depending on the topographical regions. In the direct-seeding cultivation of rice, man-labor hours was reduced by about 38 percent and the reduction rate showed little difference among topographical regions. Fertilizer was used about 11 percent more but the increase rate varied from 3 to 17 percent depending on regions with higher rates in plains. Application of agricultural chemicals was also increased about 9 percent in direct-seeding, but the increase rate was as high as 12 percent in suburbs. More fertilizer and agricultural chemicals were used in direct-seeding cultivation by farmhouses implementing both direct-seeding and transplanting than by those implementing direct-seeding only. Use of more fertilizers and agricultural chemicals in direct-seeding in all regions may indicate its technical instability. Major problems causing the technical instability of direct-seeding cultivation should be solved by comprehensive research considering various farming circumstances such as topographical features rather than just a top-down style research and extension.

• Journal of Animal Science and Technology
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• 제59권2호
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• pp.3.1-3.7
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• 2017

Background: The modelling of lactation curve provides guidelines in formulating farm managerial practices in dairy cows. The aim of the present study was to determine the suitable non-linear model which most accurately fitted to lactation curves of five lactations in 134 Gir crossbred cows reared in Research-CumDevelopment Project (RCDP) on Cattle farm, MPKV (Maharashtra). Four models viz. gamma-type function, quadratic model, mixed log function and Wilmink model were fitted to each lactation separately and then compared on the basis of goodness of fit measures viz. adjusted $R^2$, root mean square error (RMSE), Akaike's Informaion Criteria (AIC) and Bayesian Information Criteria (BIC). Results: In general, highest milk yield was observed in fourth lactation whereas it was lowest in first lactation. Among the models investigated, mixed log function and gamma-type function provided best fit of the lactation curve of first and remaining lactations, respectively. Quadratic model gave least fit to lactation curve in almost all lactations. Peak yield was observed as highest and lowest in fourth and first lactation, respectively. Further, first lactation showed highest persistency but relatively higher time to achieve peak yield than other lactations. Conclusion: Lactation curve modelling using gamma-type function may be helpful to setting the management strategies at farm level, however, modelling must be optimized regularly before implementing them to enhance productivity in Gir crossbred cows.

• 농업과학연구
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• 제24권1호
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• pp.94-107
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• 1997

Producing organic farm products is one of the high-payoff farming practices considering the rapid increase of consumer's purchasing power. The purpose of this study is to identify the optimal organic farming system in relation to farm income. To cope with the above objectives, present farming conditions and profitability of 15 farmers producing organic products including rice and leaf vegetables as lettuse and cabbage were surveyed in Hongsung and Ahsan Gun, Chungnam Province. Based on the surveyed data, maximization of organic farm income were analyzed under the constrained conditions such as limited monthly labour inputs and competitive use of land by Linear Programming Model. The results of this study can be summarized as follows. 1. In the profitability analysis of 15 farmers producing organic products, rice farmers could earn their farm income more than that of conventional farmers by 50%. On the other hand, the controlled lettuce farmers could get more about 100% than that of it. But the controlled cabbage farm could get more about 40% of it. These organic farm products were saled at high prices comparing with the prices of conventional farm products by 170% ~ 230% even though the crop yields produced by organic materials had decreased. 2. According to the labor requirement of the organically produced crops, rice cultivation was needed more labour inputs than the conventional farming method by 130%. On the other hand lettuce and cabbage could saved labour requirement by 40% and 80% of those respectively. Especially for the rice cultivation concern, higher labor requirement was due to the activities as organic fertilization, soil preparation and pest and weed controll, etc. 3. With the surveyed data from farmers who produced farm commodities, L.P. analysis was implemented to find out the optimul farming system and the maximum income. According to the results of L.P. analysis, 58% of total farm income could get more than the conventional farming system In the case of rice cultivation, one ha of paddy was recommendable to save more labour inputs than the controlled leaf vegetables such as lettuse and cabbage. However, in the controlled leaf vegatables, only 73% of total upland equivalent to 0.3 ha should be cultivated under the condition of labor shortage as the restricted 4 workers. And increasing the size of hogs raising should be recommened to achieve self-sufficiency of organic fertilizer. As pointed out the possibility of organic farming, present farmers producing organic farm products could be able to maximize their income by expanding organic farm size with regard to all conditions of our organic industry. Of course, there are many difficulties in the course of developing organic agriculture. So Government should effort to support the development of our organic agriculture considering the various aspects of production, marketing, Quality certification of organic produces.

• 한국가금학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국가금학회 2001년도 제18차 정기총회 및 학술발표 PROCEEDINGS
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• pp.104-106
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• 2001

계란의 판매전략에는 $\ulcorner$제품개발$\lrcorner$ 과 $\ulcorner$판로개척$\lrcorner$ 의 두 가지 길이 있으며 이러한 전략적 대응이 필연적으로 성공하고 있다고는 할 수 없다. 판매 노력에 관한 평가는 앞으로 경영진단의 과제가 될 것이며 어느 것을 선택하느냐에 따라서 경영별 유리성은 격차가 더욱더 커질 것이다. 최근 시장개방화와 만성적인 생산과잉에 의한 수익성의 악화로 농가부채 증가 등 채란 양계 경영에 많은 어려움을 겪고 있는 실정이다. 한편 이러한 가운데서도 저 난가의 대응책으로 고부가가치, 상품차별화에 의한 신제품 개발, 판로개척 등 수익성 확보로 맞서고 있는 경영을 볼 수 있다. 앞에서 말한바와 같이 경영구조를 비교 분석한 것을 종합해보면 저 난가 구조하에서 살아남을 수 있는 길은 생산비절감도 중요한 비중을 차지하겠지만 무엇보다도 가격에 대하여 어떻게 대응할 것인가라는 전제하에 도매보다는 소매의 비율을 높인다든지 제품개발(상품차별화)을 통한 고 부가가치의 방향으로 나아가야 할 것이다.

• 농업생명과학연구
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• 제43권4호
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• pp.45-51
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• 2009

농산물의 비용계산에서 생산비는 농산물의 적정가격 결정, 농업정책수립의 기초자료 및 농가지도의 중요한 지표로 활용되어 왔지만, 개별 농업경영체의 경영계획수립, 경영진단 등을 위해서는 원가개념의 도입이 필요하다. 그러나 농업부문의 비용계산에서 원가회계의 도입은 이루어지지 않고 있다. 본 연구에서는 농산물생산비의 목적, 개념, 대상, 기간 등에서 농산물의 원가 산출의 기준이 되는 원가계산준칙과 관련된 문제점을 비판적으로 검토하여 농산물의 비용계산을 위한 원가회계의 기본방향을 제시하였다.