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Conservation Value Assessment in Agricultural Area Considering Biodiversity of Insect (곤충류 종다양성을 고려한 농경지 보전가치평가)

  • Kim, Eunyoung;Song, Wonkyong;Jeon, Seong-Woo;Han, Yong-Gu
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Environmental Restoration Technology
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    • v.16 no.5
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    • pp.39-47
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    • 2013
  • The agricultural area is a priority to develop than the natural area for land developments. However, the importance of agricultural biodiversity is emphasized recently. The agricultural area does not only provide food for human and habitat for wild life but also contribute to improve biodiversity. It is necessary to preserve the agricultural area with rich biodiversity. The study was conducted to analyze biodiversity of insects for conservation value assessment of agricultural areas. According to the results of field survey, there is higher biodiversity index in agricultural areas surrounding the forest or small size agricultural areas. By contrast, the index is lower in agricultural areas near roads or in the intensive agricultural area. The results show that there is high biodiversity in agricultural areas, especially margin agricultural area such as below 2ha and over slop rate of 15%. Therefore, further studies should be conducted field survey more to generalize for biodiversity in agricultural area, and establish the criteria to protect agricultural area from land developments.

A Study on Spatial Change of the Agricultural Experimental Organizations in Suwon (수원 권업모범장의 공간변화에 관한 연구)

  • Ahn, Kug-jin;Kwon, Joon-hyung
    • Journal of architectural history
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    • v.27 no.5
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    • pp.39-48
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    • 2018
  • The Agricultural Experimental Organizations[勸業模範場] in Suwon is Korea's first agricultural promotion facility. It was founded in 1906. This study aim to find the area and spatial composition of 勸業模範場. The results are as follows. When it founded, the Agricultural Experimental Organizations was operated centering on the main hall, and then since the pillage of national sovereignty in 1910, it was moved to the jurisdiction of the Japanese Government General of Korea and operated with the addition of the agricultural/forestry school. In 1913, the reductive egg production/distribution was moved from Yongsan branch to Suwon, and reductive egg producing site and female sericulture training office were installed in Suwon. It is supposed that at the time, the Agricultural Experimental Organizations was divided into the main hall-centered area, the Suwon agricultural/forestry school at the south side, and the reductive egg producing site and female sericulture training office even more down south. Since 1920, the agricultural/forestry school came out of the jurisdiction of the Agricultural Experimental Organizations, such that the Agricultural Experimental Organizations was left with only the main hall-centered area and the area with the reductive egg producing site and female sericulture training office. In this study, these two areas are referred to as 'the main hall area' and 'the sericulture area.

Criteria for Determining Working Area and Operating Cost for Long-Term Lease of Agricultural Machinery

  • Shin, Seung Yeoub;Kang, Chang Ho;Yu, Seok Cheol;Kim, Yu Yong;Noh, Jae Seung
    • Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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    • v.40 no.3
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    • pp.178-185
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    • 2015
  • Purpose: This research suggests a method of establishing criteria for working area and operating cost for a long-term lease of agricultural machinery. Methods: Eight crops were selected-three food crops and five open-field vegetables-and agricultural machines used for sowing, transplanting, and cultivation in dry-field farming were analyzed. Results: The break-even acreage for agricultural machinery under a long-term lease was found to differ by agricultural machine, ranging from 1.0 to 5.8 ha. In terms of arable land area, the break-even acreages for harvesting machinery and transplanters were 15.6 to 26.1 ha and 6.1 to 8.6 ha, respectively. The working area lessees should secure was divided into two cases: (1) 2.0 to 11.6 ha when leasing individual agricultural machines (sowing and transplanting) for a long-term period, and (2) more than 10 ha when farmers who cultivate beans, potatoes, garlic, onions, and so on lease sowing and transplanting machines as a set. When agricultural machinery was leased for a long term, the operating cost and working time were reduced by 27.6 to 74.4% and 2.5 to 21.6%, respectively, indicating considerable effect. Conclusions: A long-term lease project needs to be promoted to overcome the limitation of short-term leases of agricultural machinery. The local government should lead this project and facilitate the mechanization of dry-field farming. The department in charge of agricultural machinery lease projects needs to set the working area to cover the rate and maintenance cost for farmers who lease agricultural machinery for the long term.

The effect of biogas slurry application on biomass production and the silage quality of corn

  • Hua Sun;Kai Shi;Hairong Ding;Chenglong Ding;Zhiqing Yang;Chen An;Chongfu Jin;Beiyi Liu;Zhaoxin Zhong;Xia Xiao;Fuyin Hou
    • Animal Bioscience
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    • v.36 no.12
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    • pp.1918-1925
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    • 2023
  • Objective: The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of biogas slurry application on biomass production and the silage quality of corn. Methods: A field experiment was conducted in which corn was grown using different biogas slurry application rates. The effect of 25% to 500% biogas slurry nitrogen replacement (T1 to T14) on the yield and quality indices of corn were studied by field plot experiments. Results: The results revealed that biogas slurry application improved the stem diameter and relative feed value of corn silage in treatments T13 and T11. Moreover, the fermentation quality of corn silage was improved due to an increase in lactic acid content; in comparison with the chemical synthetic fertilizer (CF) group. The crude protein contents of corn silage had no obvious change with increasing biogas slurry application. However, the forage quality index of acid detergent fiber was decreased (p<0.05) in the T11 group compared with the CF group. In addition, higher (p<0.05) 30 h in vitro dry matter digestibility and 30 h in vitro neutral detergent fiber digestibility were observed in the T11 and T13 groups than in the CF group. Conclusion: Based on these results, it was concluded that the optimum biogas slurry application rate for corn was approximately 350% to 450% biogas slurry nitrogen replacement under the present experimental conditions.

Landowner's views on their agricultural land uses in an urban area : The case of Seoul (도시지역내 농지소유자의 농지이용 의향 분석 - 서울특별시의 사례를 중심으로 -)

  • Hwang, Han-Cheol;Park, Sun-Yong;Choi, Soo-Myung
    • Journal of Korean Society of Rural Planning
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    • v.6 no.1 s.11
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    • pp.50-58
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    • 2000
  • In spite of importance of the farm area in the city, the urbanization and industrialization strongly results in decrease of the farm area. The purpose of this study is to establish an effective way of agricultural land uses by examining on the intention of the farmers based on the survey in Seoul area. The areas, the agricultural types, the landowner's ages, and farm land sizes, were surveyed and analyzed with respect to urban agricultural planning and land use planning. All the collected data were basically analyzed with Contingency Table and Chi-square Test using SAS statistical package. The structures of the intention of agricultural land uses were understood with the comparative analyses of the agricultural land owners, the agricultural land leaseholders, the areas, landowner's ages, farming types, and so on.

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Assessment of agricultural Organic Matter Flow in a Rural Area (농촌지역에서의 농업 유기물 흐름의 평가)

  • 김진수
    • Magazine of the Korean Society of Agricultural Engineers
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    • v.42 no.5
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    • pp.114-124
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    • 2000
  • The method to estimate agricultural organic matter flow on the regional scale was established and applied to a rural area in Chongwon-gun, Chungbok in 1996. The study area is of about 67$\textrm{km}^2$ and its population is about 7,000. The stocks and flows of organic matter are represented in dry weight per unit area and dry weight per unit area per year, respectively. the amount of inflow of organic matter indicates a possibility to cause environmental pollution. the amount of animal waste 767 kg/ha/yr account for 42 percent of total amount of organic waste 1,834 kg/ha/yr and therefore the environment in study area is greatly influenced by livestock. The decrease in recycling rate of animal waste form 100% to 70% has greatly increased the amount of disposal waste nearly twice, i.e., from 267 kg/ha/yr to 497kg/ha/yr . The results of this study demonstrate that appropriate animal population, increase in recycling of animal waste and preservation of agricultural land are necessary for environmental conservation of the study area.

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Analysis of the Inundation Potential by Elevation for the Land Evaluation in the Potentially Inundated Farms - A Case Study in Ibang-myeon, Changnyeong-gun, Kyungsangnamdo - (상습침수 농경지의 토지평가를 위한 고도별 침수 잠재성 분석 - 경상남도 창녕군 이방면을 대상으로 -)

  • Park In-Hwan;Jang Gab-Sue;Seo Dong-Joe
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Landscape Architecture
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    • v.33 no.2 s.109
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    • pp.71-82
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    • 2005
  • A large scale of riverside rearrangement has been recently done in the major rivers in Korea. So inundation possibility in agricultural area closed by these rivers has been higher than the possibility a few years ago. However, land use in this area has not been adjusted to a change of this situation near the rivers. Therefore, when typhoon or heavy rain is happened on this area, it can cause a large damage in agricultural area. This study analyzed inundation potentiality in agricultural area at Ibang-myeon, Changnyeong-gun, Kyeongnam-province, Korea by using the logistic regression model and the piecewise regression model. The first thing we did was to transfer the inundation area per elevation to the accumulated inundation area per elevation. This accumulated inundation area per elevation as an distribution function could be described by the logistic regression model(LRM), and piecewise regression model(PRM) could make it much more accurate to analyze the inundation area per elevation. As a result, the regression models derived from LRM and PRM showed $R^2$ over 0.950. The models derived from LRM and PRM in Ibang-myeon noted that frequently inundated area(FIA) was shown up to 12.12m in elevation, and potentially inundated area(PIA) was shown up to 14.60m in elevation. In FIA, regular agricultural activity would be impossible. And It would be not easy to continue the regular agricultural activity in PIA. So, this land should be rearranged to be used for a buffer zone for ecosystem protection, landscape conservation and things like that in riverside.

An Analysis of Korean Regional Agricultural and Agri-Manufacturing Clusters Using Multi-Regional Input-Output Model (우리나라의 권역별 농산업 클러스터 분석: 6개 권역간 산업연관모형희 적용)

  • Yoon, Min-Kyoung;Choi, Myoung-Sub;Kim, Eui-June
    • Journal of Korean Society of Rural Planning
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    • v.16 no.1
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    • pp.9-20
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    • 2010
  • The aim of this paper is to identify Korean agricultural and agri-manufacturing cluster using a multi-regional input-output model. This paper derives a representative set of five agricultural and agri-manufacturing clusters in Korea in terms of spatial and industrial interdependency. The results show that agriculture and agri-manufacturing clusters agglomerated in Seoul Metropolitan Area and Chungcheong Area are linked both production and manufacture functions, whereas Gangwon Area is more focused on production and Jeolla Area is more concentrated on manufacture.

Flood analysis for agriculture area using SWMM model: case study on Sindae drainage basin

  • Inhyeok Song;Hyunuk An;Mikyoung Choi;Heesung Lim
    • Korean Journal of Agricultural Science
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    • v.50 no.4
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    • pp.799-808
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    • 2023
  • Globally, abnormal climate phenomena have led to an increase in rainfall intensity, consequently causing a rise in flooding-related damages. Agricultural areas, in particular, experience significant annual losses every year due to a lack of research on flooding in these regions. This study presents a comprehensive analysis of the flood event that occurred on July 16, 2017, in the agricultural area situated in Sindaedong, Heungdeok-gu, Cheongju-si. To achieve this, the EPA (United States Environmental Protection Agency) Storm Water Management Model (SWMM) was employed to generate runoff data by rainfall information. The produced runoff data facilitated the identification of flood occurrence points, and the analysis results exhibited a strong correlation with inundation trace maps provided by the Ministry of the Interior and Safety (MOIS). The detailed output of the SWMM model enabled the extraction of time-specific runoff information at each inundation point, allowing for a detailed understanding of the inundation status in the agricultural area over different time frames. This research underscores the significance of utilizing the SWMM model to simulate inundation in agricultural areas, thereby validating the efficacy of flood alerts and risk management plans. In particular, the integration of rainfall data and the SWMM model in flood prediction methodologies is expected to enhance the formulation of preventative measures and response strategies against flood damages in agricultural areas.

Typical Classification of Rural Area Considering Settlement Environment by Decision Tree Method (정주여건을 고려한 의사결정나무기법 활용 농촌지역 유형화)

  • Bae, Seung-Jong;Kim, Dae-Sik;Eun, Sang-Kyu
    • Journal of The Korean Society of Agricultural Engineers
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    • v.58 no.6
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    • pp.79-92
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    • 2016
  • The objective of this study is to classify the types of rural areas (138 $si{\cdot}gun$) considering settlement environment by Decision Tree Method (CHAID). The CHAID method was used for decision tree algorithm and the seven dependant variables and 5 explanatory variables were selected, respectively. By decision tree method, rural areas were finally classified into six groups through three separate processes. City area, lower area in aging rate and higher area in farmland area ratio was analyzed to be relatively rich rather than other area in the case of settlement environment index. In the future, this study will be able to utilize as a reference to the planning of rural development projects.