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Distribution and Changes in Occurrence of Fingerprint Stem Blight of Eleocharis kuroguwai Caused by Epicoccosorus nematosporus in Korea

  • Hong, Yeon-Kyu;Ryu, Kil-Lim;Hyun, Jong-Nae;Uhm, Jae-Youl;Kim, Soon-Chul
    • The Plant Pathology Journal
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    • v.18 no.3
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    • pp.152-155
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    • 2002
  • Epicoccosorus nematosporus was detected in all 22 counties surveyed, but the frequency of occurrence of fingerprint stem blight disease (FSBD) on Eleocharis kuroguwai caused by the fungus varied with fields and regions. The disease occurred more frequently in mountain areas than in plain areas. E. nematosporus was detected in less than 20% of plain areas such as Cimjae and Milyang, whereas, it occurred in 40-60% of mountain areas such as Sangiu and Jangsoo. In Milyang, mean temperature in July to August 1993 ranged from 17 to $27^{\circ}C$ with 14.3 h of dew period. Meanwhile, in the mountain area such as Sangiu, Gyeongbook, temperature ranged from 17 to $24^{\circ}C$ with 16.1 h of dew period. Plant mortality was 61% in Milyang and 82% in Sangju. Underground tuber formation was highly suppressed at 16 and 33 tubers per plot in Sangju and Milyang, respectively. In 1992 and 1995, plants infected ranged from 40 to 78% in July to September. This sharply decreased to an average of 15% in 1999.

The Utilization of Environment-Friendly Agricultural Products of College Students in Seoul and Incheon Areas (경인지역 대학생의 친환경농산물 이용실태)

  • Choi, Hyo-Seon;Chang, Kyung-Ja
    • Korean Journal of Community Nutrition
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    • v.12 no.6
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    • pp.742-751
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    • 2007
  • The purpose of study was to investigate the utilization of environment-friendly agricultural products of the college students attending nutrition education. The subjects were 387 college students (male 53.2%, female 46.8%) at universities in the Seoul and Incheon areas. A cross-sectional study was conducted by a self-administered questionnaire. The percentage of subjects who purchased environment-friendly agricultural products was 37.2%. The most purchased environment-friendly agricultural products were vegetables. The main reason for preferring the environment-friendly agricultural products was good for health (53.7%). Also, the main motive of purchasing the environment-friendly agricultural products was for health (87.5%). For the quality of the environment-friendly agricultural products, they answered 'safety' (4.19), 'freshness' (4.03) and 'nutrition' (3.90), respectively. For college students' right choices of environment-friendly agricultural products, information and consumer education on these products are necessary.

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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A Study on the Improvement related with the House Remodeling Support Program for Underprivileged Group in Rural Area (농촌지역 주거약자를 위한 주택 리모델링 지원사업 개선방향 설정에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Hye-Lan;Lim, Chang-Su;Kim, Sang-Bum;Kim, Eun-Ja;Hong, Kwang-Woo
    • Journal of Korean Society of Rural Planning
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    • v.19 no.2
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    • pp.75-91
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    • 2013
  • In rural areas, in spite of the development projects of town and houses has been performed after the New Community Movement, due to rapid industrialization and urbanization, which lasted until the 2000s from the 1980s, out-migration to the cities, changes in the industrial structure, rapid aging was carried. As a result, the gap of housing environment between urban and rural areas became more serious. The meantime, the housing problem is recognized only to the problems of the big cities, mostly urban public housing policy oriented. However, when you check the indicator of the housing environment, such as the percentage of aging housing, rural environment has become a relatively poor compared to the city. In addition, due to a decrease in income and aging of the population living in rural areas of existing infrastructure to improve the living environment is weakened. And inside of the rural areas, changes in the housing environment and polarization phenomenon is becoming increasingly serious. Therefore, in this study, there is a purpose to be presented the improvement direction for efficient implementation of house remodeling support program for underprivileged group in rural areas and requires immediate attention improvement of housing environment. Previously, House remodeling support project in rural areas was carried out at the initiative of local governments and government mainly. For this reason, it is difficult due to limited institutional, to reflect the necessary parts directly to the real life of the residents. And, the demand for improvement of housing environment need modifications to solve the inconvenience of life of residents directly in many cases. It is considered that community-based house remodeling support project is to be carried out through the participation of local residents.

A Study on Analysis of Damaged Facilities in Rural Area by Storm and Flood Hazard (풍수해에 의한 농촌지역 피해시설 현황 분석)

  • Lim, Chang-Su;Oh, Yun-Kyung;Lee, Seung Chul;Kim, Eun-Ja;Choi, Jin-Ah
    • Journal of Korean Society of Rural Planning
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    • v.22 no.2
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    • pp.19-29
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    • 2016
  • Disasters that occur most frequently in rural areas are drought, flood, damages from wind and cold weather. Among these, damages from storm and flood and drought are the main disasters and recently, these are occurring on a large scale due to unusual weather conditions. Under such circumstances, projects and researches on disasters in rural areas are under way but they are mostly targeting one area or making approaches focusing on repair facilities, maintenance project of facilities in small streams, and disaster management, so there have not been enough studies on the current status of overall damaged facilities in the rural areas. Against this backdrop, through the analysis of the current status of damaged facilities due to storm and flood in rural areas, this study aims to provide base data for policies needed for disaster recovery planning and maintenance work of rural areas. For the analysis of damaged facilities due to storm and flood in rural areas, using the annual report on disasters issued by Ministry of Public Safety and Security and based on the occurrence rate of estimated damage in each city and district for the past 10 years(2004~2013), 8 areas with the highest number of occurrence and cost of damage were found from each province and target areas were selected. Then, regarding the selected target areas, the General Plan for Reducing Damages from Storm and Flood, which is the report on top-level plan for preventing disasters, was secured and the current status of damaged facilities were analyzed. After organizing the analysis of current status, the tendency of damaged facilities due to storm and flood in rural areas, the items of damaged facilities depending on the types of storm and flood damages, and risk factors were suggested. Based on this result, in order to generalize the results of follow-up researches, it is thought that disaster recovery planning and establishing the system of remodeling items necessary for maintenance work would be possible by analyzing damage investigation items recorded in additional researches on rural areas, researches on natural disasters, and recovery plan instructions and by conducting on-site investigation on the damaged villages from storm and flood in rural areas.

Alternatives to Promote Informatization for Rural Economic Development in Taegu.Kyungbuk Regions (대구.경북지역 농촌 경제발전을 위한 정보화 추진방안)

  • 이동만;장흥섭;김병곤
    • The Journal of Information Systems
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    • v.7 no.1
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    • pp.129-158
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    • 1998
  • By investigating various information promotion plans by Taegu Metropolitan City Government, Kyungbuk Provincial Government or by the ministry of Agricultural, Forestry, and Fishery Affairs, this paper intends to analyze current trends of information approached from wider perspective, and to propose multi-layered alternatives which improve informatization promulgation in rural areas of Taegu, Kyungbuk areas. This research proposes following 6 alternatives, as informatization strategies to develop rural economics ; (1) construction of Agricultural Techno Park to advance and develop informatization in rural areas, (2) construction of communication super highway to strengthen information infrastructure, (3) construction of region-specific information system to provide agricultural information unique to its region or areas, (4) provision of agriculture-related information by establishing regional information centers separated by regions like North, South, Eastern regions etc., (5) establishment information, (6) establishment of information gallery of village to provide information needed. And this research also investigates specific contents progresses of various plans by various actors.

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Long-term Investigation of Soil Chemical Properties in Paddy Fields Located in Different Topographic Areas of Jeonbuk Province

  • Ahn, Byung-Koo;Ko, Do-Young;Lee, Chang-Kyu;Kim, Jin-Ho;Song, Young-Ju;Lee, Jin-Ho
    • Korean Journal of Soil Science and Fertilizer
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    • v.49 no.3
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    • pp.275-281
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    • 2016
  • The aim of this study was to examine the selected soil chemical properties of paddy fields in different topographic areas to efficiently manage nutrient valances of the paddy fields in Jeonbuk Province. Three-hundred soil sampling sites in paddy fields were selected from the different topographic areas in Jeonbuk Province. The soil samples were collected every four years from 1999 to 2015. Soil pH and exchangeable K and Mg concentrations declined during the experimental periods. However, almost all the chemical properties were within the proper levels for paddy soil, except exchangeable Mg concentration. Distributed areas of the paddy fields with soil pH below 5.5 continuously increased, but the paddy fields with lower concentrations of soil organic matter and available $P_2O_5$ than the proper levels declined after 2007. In addition, the paddy fields with available $SiO_2$ below the proper concentration decreased from 83.3% of the total paddy fields studied in 1999 to 61.0% of the total fields investigated in 2015. The paddy fields with lower exchangeable K and Mg than the proper levels increased after 2003 whereas the fields with lower exchangeable Ca concentration decreased. Dominant landform of coastal and plain areas was fluvio-marine plains that was distributed in 53.7% and 40.9%, respectively. Local valley and fans was a dominant landform of mountainous and middle-mountainous areas, which was 51.8% and 67.6%, respectively. Dominant soil textures distributed in coastal and plain areas were silty loam and loam. Those in mountainous and middle-mountainous areas were sandy loam and loam, respectively. Soil pH was relatively higher in coastal area and the comparatively higher content of soil organic matter was found in costal area than other areas. The concentrations of available $P_2O_5$, exchangeable Ca, and exchangeable Mg were generally higher in mountainous, coastal, plain areas, respectively, but available $SiO_2$ and exchangeable K concentrations were not significantly different among the different topographic areas.

Patterns of Forest Landscape Structure due to Landcover Change in the Nakdong River Basin (토지이용변화에 따른 낙동강 유역 산림경관의 구조적 패턴 분석)

  • Park, Kyung-Hun;Jung, Sung-Gwan;Kwon, Jin-O;Oh, Jeong-Hak
    • Journal of Korean Society of Rural Planning
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    • v.11 no.4 s.29
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    • pp.47-57
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    • 2005
  • The goal of this research is to evaluate landscape-ecological characteristics of watersheds in the Nakdong River Basin by using Geogaphic Information System (GIS) and landscape indices for integation of spatio-temporal informations and multivariate statistical techniques for quantitative analysis of forest landscape. Fragmentation index and change matrix techniques using factor analysis and grid overlay method were used to efficiently analyze and manage huge amount of information for ecological-environmental assessment (land-cover and forest landscape patterns). According to the results based on the pattern analysis of land-cover changes using the change detection matrix between 1980s and 1990s, addition on 750km$^2$ became urbanized areas. The altered 442.04km$^2$ was agricultural areas which is relatively easy for shifting of land-use, and 205.1km$^2$ of forests became urbanized areas, and average elevation and slope of the whole altered areas were 75m and 4$^{\circ}$. On the other hand, 120km$^2$ of urban areas were changed into other areas (i.e., agricultural areas and green space), and fortunately, certain amount of naturalness had been recovered. But still those agricultural areas and fallow areas, which were previously urban areas, had high potential of re-development for urbanization due to their local conditions. According to the structural analysis of forest landscape using the landscape indices, the forest fragmentation of watersheds along the main stream of the Nakdong River was more severe than my other watersheds. Furthermore, the Nakdong-sangju and Nakdong-miryang watersheds had unstable forest structures as well as least amount of forest quantity. Thus, these areas need significant amount of forest through a new forest management policy considering local environmental conditions.

Analysis of the Effects on Soil Erosion and Suspended Sediment Reduction by Alpine Unauthorized and Illegal Agricultural Fields Restoration Scenarios (고랭지 임의·불법 경작지 복구 시나리오에 따른 토양유실 및 부유사량 저감 효과 분석)

  • Lee, Seoro;Lee, Gwanjae
    • Journal of The Korean Society of Agricultural Engineers
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    • v.66 no.2
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    • pp.53-62
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    • 2024
  • This study assessed the efficiency of reducing soil erosion and suspended sediment through the restoration of alpine unauthorized and illegally cultivated fields, using the SWAT (Soil and Water Assessment Tool) model in the Mandae District. The results showed that in Scenario 5, which involved restoring unauthorized and illegal fields within forests, along rivers (banks), and in ditch areas were restored to their original land categories, achieved the highest efficiency in reducing average annual soil erosion and suspended sediment, with reductions of 8.1% and 4.5%, respectively. In particular, it was confirmed that the restoration of unauthorized and illegal fields within forested areas has a significant impact. This demonstrated that the restoration of unauthorized and illegal agricultural fields can substantially reduce the soil erosion and suspended sediment attributable to non-point source pollution. Our findings highlight the importance of managing these unauthorized and illegal agricultural activities in developing sustainable strategies within non-point source pollution management areas. This study is expected to provide important basic data to effectively establish water quality improvement strategies in the region of non-point source pollution management.

Disparity of Access to Neighborhood Facilities for the Elderly in Rural Areas - Focusing on Community Facilities - (농촌 노인 생활인프라 접근성의 지역 간 격차 - 생활편익시설을 중심으로 -)

  • Kim, Hyun-Joong;Hwang, Jeong-Im;Choi, Yoon-Ji
    • Journal of Agricultural Extension & Community Development
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    • v.22 no.2
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    • pp.159-173
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    • 2015
  • The purpose of this study was to identify the conditions of neighborhood facilities for the elderly, paying special attention to the accelerated aging phenomenon in rural areas of Korea. We contrived a new index to measure spatial accessibility for people aged over 65 years, and we analyzed spatial accessibility by focusing on community facilities: public bath facilities, beauty shops, rural public facilities, markets, big stores, and large-scale retail shops. The most outstanding spatial accessibility among community facilities was found with the rural public facilities thanks to governmental installing adequate facilities in the past, followed by the beauty shops and the public bath facilities. In contrast, spatial accessibility of the markets was in the lowest. Spatial accessibility of community facilities for the elderly exhibited high variability among the rural areas. We confirmed significant inequality of spatial accessibility in all facilities we studied. The areas that had better spatial accessibility diverse combinations of the facilities. The areas that had worse spatial accessibility were, on the whole, consistent with traditional undeveloped regions. In the near future rational planning of facilities will be needed to supply adequate accessibility in targeted areas which currently had low accessibility. In order to improve the spatial accessibility of neighborhood facilities, the most essential factor is to take into account the geographical distribution patterns of rural settlements.