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Effects of Cultivation Environment on Phosphorus Content in Crops and Relative Density of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi (작물재배 환경이 Arbuscular 내생균근 균의 상대밀도와 작물체의 인(P) 함량에 미치는 영향)

  • Lee, Kook-Han;Ann, Seoung-Won;Lee, Chang-Hong;Lee, In-Bong;Chae, Soo-Cheon;Kim, Hye-Young;Kim, Young-Chil
    • Journal of Environmental Science International
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    • v.21 no.5
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    • pp.641-646
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    • 2012
  • Available phosphorus($P_2O_5$) in conventionally cultivated soil was more abundant in two fold than that of organically cultivated soil. Relative density of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi (AMF) was higher in organically cultivated soil, That of welsh onion cultivated soil was the highest, that of strawberry was followed and then that of pepper, respectively. Relative density of AMF was inversely proportioned to available soil phosphorus. Phosphorus content of crop and relative density of AMF were more abundant in organically cultivated crop or soil. However available soil phosphorus content was much in conventionally cultivated soil. The phosphorus contents between soil and crop were negatively correlated. The phosphorus content of crop was increased as the relative density of AMF increased. Relative density of AMF in the organically cultivated soil and phosphorus content of the crop with organic cultivation were higher than those of conventionally cultivated.

Risk Factors and Safety Measures for Ginseng Cultivation Work - An Examination Study to Develop Contents of Safety Education for Ginseng Farmers (인삼 재배 작업의 재해 위험 요인과 안전 대책 - 인삼 재배 농업인 대상 안전교육 자료 개발을 위한 조사 연구)

  • Kong, Yong-Ku;Lee, Inseok;Lee, Kyung Suk;Choi, Kyeong-Hee;Kang, Da-Yeong;Lee, Juhee
    • Journal of the Ergonomics Society of Korea
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    • v.36 no.5
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    • pp.545-557
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    • 2017
  • Objective: The aim of this study was to find risk factors in cultivating ginseng based on risk assessments and suggest safety measures for main risks. Background: Safety education and training is one of the practical and effective methods to prevent occupational accidents and injuries. In agricultural sector, there are few contents of safety education as compared to other industries. Especially, farm work has different cultivation characteristics according to the crops, so it needs special education materials for each crop. Among the various types of crops, ginseng contains various risk factors due to its long cultivating period and unique environment. Therefore, safety education material specified for ginseng is necessary to improve ginseng farmers' safety. Method: Risk assessment for cultivating tasks of ginseng was carried out through data obtained from various methods (site survey, interview, literature survey). To improve objectivity, the risk assessment was applied with 3-criteria (researcher estimate, interview, previous research results). Finally, the three high-risk tasks were selected and safety measures for those tasks were provided. Results: Three tasks, such as 'Mounting, maintenance and removing supports', 'Pest control' and 'Harvest', were selected as risky tasks among total tasks. (1) In 'Mounting' and maintenance and removing supports', the farmers found to be exposed to the risks of musculoskeletal disorders and accidents related to operating the tablet machine. (2) In 'Pest control', agrichemical poisoning, musculoskeletal disorders and hyperthermia were main risks. Finally, (3) In 'Harvest', the farmers are mainly exposed to the possibility of accidents of agricultural machines and risks of musculoskeletal disorders. Thus, it needs to apply appropriate safety measures to those risky tasks, such as safety guidelines, convenience equipment, protective kit, and so on. Conclusion: This study can be used as basic data for agricultural safety and expected that it would be useful for further study. In addition, the results of the research will be produced in the form of animation, which will enhance the safety consciousness for aged farmers. Application: The result of this study can be used in developing safety education materials for ginseng farmers which is essential to prevent occupational accidents and injuries among ginseng farmers.

Agricultural Status of Lam Dong Province in Vietnam and the Strategy for Korea-Vietnam ODA International Cooperation Program in Agriculture (베트남 람동성의 농업현황 및 한-벳 ODA 농업협력사업 전략)

  • Cho, Joon-Hyeong;Jang, Hye-Ri;Lim, Jong-Min;Lee, Sok-Young;Kim, Wan-Seok
    • Journal of the Korean Society of International Agriculture
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    • v.23 no.5
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    • pp.465-474
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    • 2011
  • Agricultural environment of Lam Dong province, which is located in central highland area, is totally different from that of other lower areas in Vietnam. In Lam Dong province, abundant plant resources were naturally grown such as pine trees, taxus, and wild orchids, which can grow in high mountainous area. In Lam Dong, the field proportion of perennial crops was higher than that of annual crops. However, the field proportion and yields of vegetables were highest among the all cultivated crops, estimating 38% (36,552ha) and 72% (993,082MT), respectively. Especially in Da Lat, vegetables, flowers, orchids, and industrial crops were mainly produced because this area is geographically close to Ho Chi Minh city. And also in Da Lat, 64% (8,447ha) and 36% (4,777ha) of farm fields were used for producing annual and perennial crops, respectively, and the yields of fresh vegetables in this area was estimated to 213,478MT which was 21.5% of the whole yields in Lam Dong province. Thus Korea, Taiwan, Japan, France, and Holland have invested to agriculture in Da Lat for producing and exporting flowers, vegetables, and tea. In 2009, flower cultivation area of Da Lat was over 55% in Lam Dong province and average amount of values were 9,781 million USD, which was higher than that of al other crops. Thus following strategies could be suggested for the development of agriculture in Lam Dong province. The first, agricultural cooperation with Da Lat, Lam Dong, should be characterized to horticulture and floriculture, followed by supporting both appropriate R&D techniques and equipments. And then agricultural system should be made in relationship with the local companies. Finally, agricultural cooperation program should be conducted toward the direction for both donor and recipient countries.

Newly Recorded Problematic Plant Diseases in Korea and Their Causal Pathogens

  • Kwon, Jin-Hyeuk
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Plant Pathology Conference
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    • 2003.10a
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    • pp.25-27
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    • 2003
  • Since 1993, a total of 50 problematic plant diseases unrecorded in Korea were surveyed in Gyeongnam province. Totally 34 new host plants to corresponding pathogens investigated in this study were 5 fruit trees, 9 vegetables, 12 ornamental plants, 3 industrial crops, and 5 medicinal plants. Among the newly recorded fruit tree diseases, fruit rot of pomegranate caused by Coniella granati and Rhizopus soft rot of peach caused by Rhizopus nigricans damaged severely showing 65.5% and 82.4% infection rate. Among the vegetable diseases, corynespora leaf spot of pepper caused by Corynespora cassiicola and the crown gall of pepper caused by Agrobacterium tumefaciens, powdery mildew of tomato caused by Oidiopsis taurica were the most severe revealing 47.6%, 84.7%, and 54.5% infection rate in heavily infected fields, respectively. In ornamental plants, collar rot of lily caused by Sclerotium rolfsii, gray mold of primula caused by Botrytis cinerea, soot leaf blight of dendrobium caused by Pseudocercospora dendrobium, sclerotinia rot of obedient plant caused by Sclerotinia sclerotiorum showed 32.7 to 64.8% disease incidence. On three industrial plants such as sword bean, broad bean, and cowpea, eight diseases were firstly found in this study. Among the diseases occurring on broad bean, rust caused by Uromyces viciae-fabae and red spot caused by Botrytis fabae were the major limiting factor for the cultivation of the plant showing over 64% infection rate in fields. In medicinal plants, anthracnose of safflower caused by Collectotrichum acutatum was considered the most severe disease on the plant and followed by collar rot caused by Sclerotium rolfsii.(중략)

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Safety Measures for Main Risk Factors in Cultivating Shiitake Mushrooms (표고버섯 원목재배 작업의 주요 위험요인과 안전대책)

  • Jo, Sungpill;Choi, Kyeong-Hee;Kong, Yong-Ku;Chae, Hye Seon;Lee, Inseok
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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    • v.30 no.5
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    • pp.86-91
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    • 2015
  • It is important to provide the farmers with practical and effective information of safety and health for individual crop to prevent or reduce occupational injuries in agricultural sector, since work characteristics and risk factors are not the same for all crops. In this study, risk assessment was carried out for cultivating shiitake mushrooms and then safety measures, which were based on the results of the risk assessment, were summarized and presented as the information of safety and health of shittake farmers. Guidelines for safety and health of the farmers of shiitake mushrooms, which were developed based on the risk assesment and safety measures, can be used by the farmers as self-educational tools or by the agricultural facilitators as an educational material for agricultural safety. It is expected that the guidelines can be useful in preventing occupational injuries of shiitake farmers.

Natural Sections in Product Design

  • Page, Tom;Thorsteinsson, Gisli;Ha, Joong-Gyu
    • International Journal of Contents
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    • v.6 no.3
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    • pp.71-82
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    • 2010
  • The golden ratio is a mysterious number that surprisingly appears in science, physics, mathematics, as well as in nature. The number 1.618 seems to be a universal constant, and crops up whenever the subject is of beauty or elegance. Beautiful flowers and sea shells and also attractive people have a common number and that is 1.618 or $\varphi$ (phi). This paper does a study into the story of phi, and describes how the golden ratio is derived. Artists, architects and designers have employed the ratio into dimensioning their works of art to achieve visual appeal. Examples such as the Greek Parthenon of the Acropolis and paintings such as the Last Supper all use this magic number. An investigation was conducted among 50 people to test if looking at golden proportioning was actually appealing, or if it was just a type among overzealous enthusiasts. The results show that the golden ratio may actually be of some use.

Assessing Metallic Toxicity of Wastewater for Irrigation in Some Industrial Areas of Bangladesh

  • Rahman, Md. Mokhlesur;Jiku, Md. Abu Sayem;Kim, Jang-Eok
    • Korean Journal of Environmental Agriculture
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    • v.30 no.2
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    • pp.189-195
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    • 2011
  • BACKGROUND: Wastewaters were collected from 25 sites of two industrial areas of Mymensingh and Gazipur in Bangladesh to assess metallic toxicity of wastewater for irrigation usage. METHODS AND RESULTS: The analyzed wastewaters were slightly alkaline to alkaline in nature and were problematic for irrigation except 3 samples. As per TDS values, 9 samples were rated as fresh water and the rest 16 were classified as brackish water. EC and SAR reflected that all samples were medium salinity (C2), high salinity (C3), very high salinity (C4) and low alkalinity (S1) hazard classes expressed as C2S1, C3S1 and C4S1. Wastewaters of different industries were graded as excellent, good, permissible and doubtful for irrigation purpose as per SSP. According to hardness ($H_T$), wastewater were under moderately hard, hard and very hard classes. Cd, Cr and Cu ions were treated as toxicant for irrigating soils and crops. Zn was problematic for long-term irrigation. The concentrations of Pb, Fe and Na were far below the toxic levels. Synergistic relationships were observed between pH-EC, pH-TDS, EC-TDS, SAR-SSP and SSP-hardness. CONCLUSION(s): If wastewater is applied for irrigation due to the fresh water shortage, it can contaminate soil due to some toxic metal ions.

Effect of Sesame Straw Biochar Application on Soil Physics and Nitrous Oxide Emission in Upland Soil

  • Kang, Se-Won;Cho, Ju-Sik;Kim, Hyun-Tae;Seo, Dong-Cheol;Moon, Sung-Dong
    • Korean Journal of Soil Science and Fertilizer
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    • v.49 no.3
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    • pp.259-264
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    • 2016
  • The effect of biochar application on soil physics and nitrous oxide ($N_2O$) emission from upland soil for broccoli cultivation was investigated. Sesame straw biochar (SB) was applied at amounts 0 (IF), 50 (SB50), 100 (SB100), 200 (SB200) kg $10a^{-1}$, respectively. SB addition to the upland soil decreased bulk density, and increased porosity and soil respiration. The $N_2O$ emission rates in all treatments were higher in the order of IF $${\geq_-}$$ SB50 > SB100 $${\geq_-}$$ SB200 treatments. Global warming potential in SB200 treatment decreased by 15.1% compared to IF treatment. Therefore, SB application in upland soil can improve soil physics and reduce $N_2O$ emission.

The Vinylhouse Automatic Control System Using Aging Society Of the Farm Village (농촌의 고령화 사회에 적합한 비닐하우스 자동제어시스템)

  • Song, Je-Ho;Kim, Tae-Ok
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.12 no.7
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    • pp.3164-3168
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    • 2011
  • In this paper, the aging of Farm Village in the automatic control system for Vinylhouse with Zigbee short-range wireless interface, the environment, crops grown according to DB, and Vinylhouse controlled environment to identify abnormalities by monitoring the Vinylhouse, regardless of the number of from one server to multiple clients while controlling two-way monitoring system is to perform. Therefore, router, end with a random ID to determine the status of certain Vinylhouse and Vinylhouse, allowing for independent control of Vinylhouse, certain characteristics of a live user wants to control was designed to allow real-time.

A Case Study on Smart Concentrations Using ICT Convergence Technology

  • Kim, Gokmi
    • International journal of advanced smart convergence
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    • v.8 no.1
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    • pp.159-165
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    • 2019
  • '4th Industrial Revolution' is accelerating as a core part of creating new growth engines and enhancing competitiveness of businesses. The fourth industrial revolution means the transformation of society and industries that are brought by IoT (Internet of Things), big data analysis, AI (Artificial Intelligence), and robot technology. Information and Communication Technology (ICT), which is a major factor, is affecting production and manufacturing systems and as ICT technologies become more advanced, intelligent information technology is generally utilized in all areas of society, leading to hyper-connected society where new values are created and developed. ICT technology is not just about connecting devices and systems and making smart, it is about constantly converging and harmonizing new technologies in a number of fields and driving innovation and change. It is no exception to the agro-fisheries trade. In particular, ICT technology is applied to the agricultural sector, reducing labor, providing optimal environment for crops, and increasing productivity. Due to the nature of agriculture, which is a labor-intensive industry, it is predicted that the ripple effects of ICT technologies will become bigger. We are expected to use the Smart Concentration using ICT convergence technology as a useful resource for changing smart farms, and to help develop new service markets.