• Asian Journal of Innovation and Policy
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.58-84
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• 2017

This article aims at demonstrating location specific approach for agricultural technology promotion and adoption in improving the livelihood of the small farmers in the haor basin and coastal belt of Bangladesh. Innovative technologies that have potentials are initially screened by ex-ante investigation and instrumented by the business model canvas, which is used as a bottom-up approach for sustainability of the adoption of proposed technology innovations. Village-level extension farmers, sub-district extension officers and farmers' cooperative are the unique and central features to the business models and forward linkages. Extension service, power tiller, low-lift pump, sunflower, shallow tube well, quality seed, forward linkage for farmed duck eggs, live ducks and open catch fish etc. are the suggested potential technology innovations for the small farmers. The technology adoption business model can be reinvented for different locations within or beyond the country considering the local agricultural problems and prospects for greater sustainability.

• Agribusiness and Information Management
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.22-31
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• 2012

Research and technology has been transforming the agriculture to agribusiness which encompasses all operations with all the connections from faming per se, to manufacture & distribution of production supplies and farm commodities. Further, with the revolutionary development of information technology in the last two decades, we cannot talk about agribusiness process alone without considering the information technology embedded in the artifact, process, and structure. Despite the emergence of precision agriculture (PA) which is supported by IT based innovations which can not only improve efficiency in farming operations but also contribute to environmental sustainability, the adoption of IT among farmers and in agriculture industry are rather low than expected. Thus, Korean government has been seeking to converge IT into food, agriculture, forestry and fisheries to improve the competency of the agribusiness, and much progress has been made. This paper investigated the status quo of the current IT convergence with Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries in Korea, and further proposed future policy directions.

• Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.1-4
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• 2004

Community-based precision farming is a new concept of agricultural systems, which leads to organize groups of wise farmers and technology platforms in Japan. The wisdom farmers create a rational farming system to manage hierarchical variability: variability in farmers' community as well as variability of within-field and between-field. The technology platform develops and provides three key-technologies: mapping technology, variable-rate technology, and decision support systems available for rural constraints. Advancement of bio-production robots leads precision farming to the next level, where two technological innovations: how to produce and manage information-oriented fields and information-added products, can be attained.

• 디지털융복합연구
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• 제15권3호
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• pp.65-75
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• 2017

현재의 농업은 농촌인구 고령화 및 도시로의 인구유출로 인하여 심각한 노동력 부족을 경험하고 있으며, 다양한 경제적 문제를 안고 있다. 4G 통신의 보급으로 시작된 최근 발전 정보통신기술의 확산과 더불어 사물인터넷 기술이 새롭게 대두되며, 다양한 산업과 융합하여 혁신적인 가치를 창출하고 있다. 사물인터넷 기술과 농업의 융합으로 확장된 6차 산업으로 농업은 노동집약산업에서 IT기반의 고부가가치 융합산업으로 발전할 수 있게 되었다. 첨단 농업인 6차 산업의 핵심 구성요소인 스마트팜은 농장제어와 관련한 센서와 장치를 하나의 플랫폼으로 구성되어있으며, 최근 스마트팜은 단순한 농장제어가 아닌, 작물의 생육환경을 분석하고 환경에 맞는 생육환경데이터를 제공하는 방법으로 발전하였다. 본 연구에서는 전통적인 방법의 농업 문제점을 해결하고 생산성 향상 및 수익성 개선을 통한 농촌경제 활성화 방안으로서의 스마트 농업을 제안하고자 한다. 또한 최근의 첨단 정보통신기술이 어떻게 기업에 영향을 미칠 수 있는가에 대하여 스마트 농장을 구축하여 성공적으로 운영하는 사례 농가 인터뷰를 통하여 스마트 농업의 가능성을 살펴보고자 한다.

• 현장농수산연구지
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• 제20권1호
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• pp.145-162
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• 2018

본 연구는 한국농수산대학 전공심화과정 졸업생들의 영농활동 실태에 대한 분석이다. 분석 결과 한농대 전공심화 졸업생들의 영농활동 특징으로는 규모화 전략을 통한 농업경쟁력 확보에 노력하고 있으며, 이를 기반으로 전문영농에 힘쓰고 있다. 또한 다양한 농업기술혁신 전략을 통해 가치창조 농업(예를 들면, 친환경농업, 신기술의 적극적 도입, 지속적인 연구 활동, 지역사회 활성화에 견인, 전문가 및 동문 등과 적극적인 네트워크 활동 등)에 앞장서고 있다. 그리고 이러한 노력들은 다양한 인증 및 수상(무농약 인증, 무항생제 인증, 우수농가 수상, 우수농산물(GAP), HACCP 인증)등의 결과로 나타나고 있다. 이렇듯 전문 고등교육기관에서 농업에 대한 체계적인 교육을 받은 한농대 졸업생들의 역할은 향후 우리나라 농업발전에 있어 매우 큰 역할을 수행할 것으로 예상된다. 따라서 이에 대한 학교 측의 다양한 제도적·정책적 지원이 수반되어야 할 것이다.

• Journal of Forest and Environmental Science
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• 제29권1호
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• pp.58-70
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• 2013

Iriai an Indigenous forest management system in Japan from the viewpoint of "common pool resources" was a success resilient institution and resulted with sustainable production system and environmental conservation. This study was conducted in Osawa of the Nagano prefecture through group discussions, field observations and an in-depth field survey. Osawa Property Ward Forest is managed under the concept very much similarly to traditional "Iriai". This study firstly examined the changes of collective forest management system in terms of awareness and interest in forest management; forest management activities; role of forest; and collection of forest products. Then it analyzed the current threats for collective forest management have been identified as: land abandonment due to loss of benefits and lack of active community participation; deterioration of forest environment particularly the micro-climate and aesthetic values; conflict with local government authorities restraining the use of money in property ward forest and conflict with outsiders on damping of the garbage. Community cantered forestry management rules; livelihood contribution; protection of environment; local initiatives for protection and economic activities are the prevailing opportunities for collective forest management. The main requirements for revitalization of collective forest management are explained as local reciprocity; imposition of community based forest rules; encouraging local innovations; and building partnerships with stakeholders. Collective forest management system addresses the limitations of conventional forestry models, which had invalidated traditional 'iriai' institutions, and key to restoring sustainable use of forest and environmental resources. Cross-institutional collaborations together with responsibilities of local communities would ensure the revitalization of forest resources.

• 농촌지도와개발
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.101-119
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• 2000

Agricultural Extension Services in Korea have accomplished a significant role in self- sufficiency of rice, a national staple food, through green revolution in 1970's; supplying green vegetables even during the winter season through white revolution in 1980's; and establishing technical agriculture by organizing rural leaders and 4-H members. In 1990s changes were made in international situations under the Uruguay Round multilateral trade negotiations and inauguration of the World Trade Organization. This was followed by localization of the extension staffs and the functions of extension services in Korea changed dramatically from national government to local governments. Thus, a weakened national function resulted in loosening of the linkages of research and extension in central government and local extension offices. Difficulties were reported in diffusion of new agricultural technology and efficient management of extension personnel. Developmental tasks for better extension services for the 21st century in Korea would include recovering national functions of agricultural extension, and developing a new paradigm for extension service. This should include the following measures; 1) Cooperative extension service should be adapted to involve national as well as local governments and non-government organization. 2) The target groups for extension services should be expanded to include farmers, noel residents as well as urban consumers. 3) The role of the extension service should cover agricultural technological diffusion of innovations as well as managerial skills and leadership development for rural organizations. 4) Extension services should be introduced to small farmers as well as consultation services for advanced farms. Diversified approaches should be employed for mama effective services. 5) Pre-service as well as in-service education should be offered to secure better extension educators equipped with knowledge, understanding and abilities on agricultural technology, information, agricultural philosophy, instructional methods and communication skills.

• STI Policy Review
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.105-145
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• 2015

Science, technology and innovation (STI) is crucially important to eradicating poverty, and making advances in various areas such as agriculture, health, environment, transport, industry, and telecommunications. Therefore, it is vital to the overall socioeconomic development of nations. The indispensable role of STI in the competitive globalized economy led to several attempts to measure national STI capacities. The present study outlines STI capacity around three sets of capabilities: technological capabilities, social capabilities, and common capabilities. The Global Science, Technology and Innovation Capacity (GSTIC) index was developed to provide current evidence on the national STI capacities of the countries, and to improve the composite indicators used for such purposes. The GSTIC ranks a large number of countries (167) on the basis of their STI capacities and categories them into four groups: i.e. leaders, dynamic adopters, slow adopters, and laggards. For more meaningful assessment of the STI capacities of nations, it captures the achievement gaps of individual countries with the highest achiever. The study also provides ranking and achievement gaps of nations in the nine GSTIC pillars: technology creation, R&D capacity, R&D performance, technology absorption, diffusion of old technologies, diffusion of recent innovations, exposure to foreign technology, human capital, and enabling factors. A more detailed analysis of the strengths and weaknesses in different pillars of STI capacity of ten selected countries is also provided. The results show that there are significant disparities among nations in STI capacity and its various aspects, and developing countries have much to catch-up with the developed nations. However, different countries may adopt different strategies according to their strengths and weaknesses. Useful insight into the strengths and weaknesses of the national STI capacities of different countries are provided in the study.

• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• 제7권9호
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• pp.191-200
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• 2020

This research paper examines the causal relationship between India's economic growth and sectoral contribution to Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and vice versa, in the short-run and long-run, over a 10 years time period. Johansen's method of cointegration is used to study the cointegration between the sectoral contributions to Indian GDP vis-à-vis India's economic growth. Further, the route of interconnection between economic growth and sectoral contribution is tested by using Vector Auto Regression (VAR) model. Special attention was given for investigating impulse responses of economic growth depending on the innovations in sectoral contribution using time-series data from 1960 to 2015. This paper highlighted a dynamic co-relationship among industrial sector contribution and agricultural sector contribution and economic development. In the long run, one percent change in industrial sector contribution causes an increase of 3.42 percent in the economic growth and an increase of 1.12 percent in the primary sector contribution, while in the short run industrial and service sector contributions showed significant impact on economic development and agriculture sector. The changing composition of sector contribution is going to be an important activity for the policymakers to monitor and control where the technology and integration of sectors play a significant role in economic development.

• 생물환경조절학회지
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• 제33권2호
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• pp.120-128
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• 2024

2022년 ChatGPT 출시 이후, 생성형 AI 산업은 엄청난 규모로 성장하였으며, 인지 작업에 혁신을 가져올 것으로 기대되고 있다. 특히 AI 기반 이미지 생성 기술은 현재 디지털 세계의 핵심적인 변화를 주도하고 있다. 본 연구는 대표적인 AI 이미지 생성 도구인 미드저니, 스테이블 디퓨전, 그리고 파이어플라이의 기술적 원리를 분석하고, 이미지 생성 결과를 비교함으로써 그 유용성을 평가하였다. 실험 결과, 이 AI 도구들은 대표 시설원예 작물인 토마토, 딸기, 파프리카, 오이의 과실 이미지를 실제와 유사하게 재현하였다. 특히 파이어플라이는 실제 온실 재배 작물 이미지를 매우 사실적으로 묘사하는 능력을 보여주었다. 그러나 모든 도구들은 작물이 자라는 온실의 환경적 맥락을 완전히 반영하는 데에 있어서 다소 한계를 보였다. 프롬프트 개선 및 레퍼런스 이미지를 활용하여 딸기과실 이미지와 시설 딸기재배 시스템을 보다 정교하게 생성하는 과정도 포함되었으며, 이러한 접근은 AI 이미지 생성 기술의 세밀한 조정이 가능함을 보여준다. 오이 과실 이미지 생성능력을 비교한 결과, AI 생성 도구들은 실제 이미지와 매우 유사한 이미지를 생성해 냄으로써 이미지 생성 점수(CLIP score)에 있어서 통계적 차이를 보이지 않았다. 본 연구는 AI 기반 이미지 생성 이미지 기술이 농업 분야에 활용될 수 있는 방안을 모색하며, 생성형 AI의 농업에 대한 적용을 긍정적으로 전망한다.