산업식품공학 (Food Engineering Progress)

  • 제31권4호
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  • Pages.312-321
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  • 2019
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  • 1226-4768(pISSN)
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  • 2288-1247(eISSN)
한국산업식품공학회 (Korean Society for Industrial Food Engineering)
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Effectiveness Analysis on New Bamboo-based Income System of Lao PDR: Case Study of Nongboua Mountain Village

  • Bohwi Lee (Dep. of Environment and Forest Resources, Chungnam National University) ;
  • Hakjun Rhee (Dep. of Environment and Forest Resources, Chungnam National University) ;
  • Sang-jin Lee (Dep. of Environment and Forest Resources, Chungnam National University) ;
  • Phayvanh Alounsavath (Dep. of Environment and Forest Resources, Chungnam National University) ;
  • Joon-Woo Lee (Dep. of Environment and Forest Resources, Chungnam National University) ;
  • Seungmo Koo (Dep. of Agricultural Economics, Chungnam National University) ;
  • Sebin Kim (Dep. of Environment and Forest Resources, Chungnam National University)
  • 투고 : 2019.07.24
  • 심사 : 2019.11.18
  • 발행 : 20191200
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The Lao PDR is a developing country that heavily relies on rice farming. During off-season of rice farming, rural villagers produce non-timber forest products such as bamboo products. Until recently many villages have overexploited bamboo resources and supplied raw bamboo materials to foreign companies. Although the Lao government allocated harvesting quotas, most villagers keep on cutting bamboos due to no other income during the off-season. This study provides an alternative income model, bamboo handicraft, that can increase villagers' income while minimizing the use of bamboo resources. It also accesses the economic feasibility of the new income model for a mountain village, Nongboua village, where surveys were conducted on general incomes of 10 sample families who participated in the new income model voluntarily. A difference was made during the off-season when the sample families worked on cutting bamboos (previous income) or bamboo handicrafts (new income). A daily wage of $ 11.5 was used for the previous income, based on our surveys. For the new income, it was assumed that single family could produce 6 bamboo handicrafts daily with a unit price of $ 2.3, resulting in a daily income of $ 13.8. During the off-season, 8 and 14 working days in a month were assumed for the previous and new incomes based on surveys. Then the previous previous and new yearly incomes were estimated and compared using normality and paired t-tests. This study found that the new yearly income was significantly greater than the previous yearly income (p < 0.001): the former (rice farming and bamboo handicraft, $ 2,064) was 42% ($ 608) greater than the latter (rice farming and bamboo cutting, $ 1,456). These results suggested that the new income model could increase villagers' income significantly. If the bamboo handicraft model is applied for other areas with bamboo resources, it can provide an opportunity to improve the rural economies and livelihoods of developing countries.

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이 연구는 2017년도 정부(과학기술정보통신부)의 재원으로 한국연구재단의 지원을 받아 수행된 개도국과학기술지원사업 연구임 (No. NRF-2017K1A3A9A01013907).