• Korean Journal of Organic Agriculture
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• v.21 no.1
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• pp.19-31
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• 2013

As a result of analysis on situations of environment-friendly school meals, it was obtained that student's parents were interested in food safety and the importance of sanitary supervision. Many parents responded that environment-friendly school meals increased the health and eating habits of their children. The higher and higher educated parents responded that environment-friendly school meals effected on the children's health positively. Also, the higher educated parents responded that environment-friendly school meals effected on the children's eating habits positively. After the environment-friendly school meals, the item increase to purchase was vegetables by 25% of the consumers who purchase environment-friendly agri-products. The second and third increasing items were respectively fruits and rice. When environment-friendly agri-products were consumpted and influenced positively through school meals, the consumption of environment-friendly agricultural products will be increased. The expansion of environment-friendly school lunch program cannot bring the consumption expansion of environment-friendly agri-products immediately. However, when the persistent promotion and student's parents confidence on environment-friendly agri-products were accumulated and experienced positive effects through school meals, it will give a positive effect on the consumption of environment-friendly agr-products.

• Korean Journal of Organic Agriculture
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.17-40
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• 2006

The trend towards forming economic blocs coupled with global economic arrangements such as DDA and FTA increase pressure on the liberalization of the agricultural sector. South Korea is taking part in the DDA negotiations. Once the DDA negotiations are implemented, the extent of liberation of the agricultural market is expected to be wider and timing of market opening is sooner than those effects of the UR agricultural agreement. A reduction in tariff rates and the government subsidy will follow, accordingly. However, many analysts in the agricultural sector express deep concern over a negative development in local agricultural market as demonstrated in China where the local market was dominated by imported agricultural products. This study aimed to investigate progress that China made in favor of the agricultural industry, including environment-friendly agricultural policy, and suggest ideas to drive the development of the agricultural industry in a better direction in Korea by comparing the two countries.

• Korean Journal of Organic Agriculture
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• v.23 no.2
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• pp.185-206
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• 2015

This study aims to prepare a solution necessary for boosting the consumption of environment-friendly agricultural products, positively reflecting consumers' opinions that expect supplies of safe agricultural products to secure the domestic farms producing environment-friendly agricultural products and at the same time, to meet consumers' needs. As a result of the hypothesis testing, of the subjective knowledge in Hypothesis 1, product knowledge had an impact on attitude, while purchase knowledge and use knowledge after purchase were not significant. Of the subjective knowledge in Hypothesis 2, purchase knowledge and product knowledge had significant impacts on purchase intention. Brand image in Hypothesis 3 had a significant impact on attitude, while brand image in Hypothesis 4 had a significant impact on purchase intention. As a result of the mediated regression analysis of Hypothesis 5, all of the subjective knowledge, purchase knowledge, product knowledge and use knowledge after purchase had an impact on purchase intention, partially mediated by attitude, and brand image, too, had an impact on purchase intention, partially mediated by attitude.

• East Asian Journal of Business Economics (EAJBE)
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.1-19
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• 2020

Purpose - This study is to classify quality characteristics of online environment-friendly agricultural products shopping malls into 6 categories and to empirically test their relationship with customer trust, perceived manageability, perceived utility and purchase intention. Research design, data, and methodology - This study targeted adults who have purchased ecofriendly agricultural production online malls for 4 weeks from September 3 to September 30, 2019. The survey type used was a structuralized self-report survey questionnaire made to meet the research purpose in 2019 as the time range. Out of 800 questionnaires, 500 copies are used after excluding surveys with insincere responses. Results - First, results to hypothesis 1, which was about independent variables and customer trust. Analysis showed that health, familiarity, platform reputation, reviews and product quality were found to have significant effect on customer trust; the hypothesis was adopted. On the other hand, system security did not affect customer trust significantly; it was rejected. Second, customer trust was shown to have significant effect on perceived manageability and perceived utility, so the hypothesis was adopted. Third, the hypothesis that perceived manageability moves onto perceived utility was adopted. Moreover, the hypothesis that perceived manageability moves onto purchase intention and the hypothesis that perceived utility moves onto purchase intention were adopted as well. Conclusions - Furthermore, the results of the study imply that it's imperative for online environment-friendly agricultural products shopping malls to consider their characteristics as the means to increase purchase intention of customers.

• Journal of Practical Agriculture & Fisheries Research
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.3-16
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• 2014

The purposes of this study is to draw up some measures for improving the farmer's satisfaction for certificate system of environment-friendly agricultural products. The data was collected from a survey in 2013. The results of survey for farmers producing environment-friendly agricultural products are as follows. First, almost 60% of the respondents are certified by the private certificate bodies. Second, the main factors affecting farmers' choice of the authority are their trust (49%), geographical adjacency (22.1%), and other farmers' recommendation (7.7%), etc. Third, the index of farmers satisfaction level regarding the certification bodies and the examiner is estimated as 4 out of 5 marks followed by ex post facto management (3.8), application process (3.77), application document (3.66), etc. Lastly, farmers want to make improvement on the complicated application process most (37.9%), followed by expensive application fee (25.2%) and excessive application documents (17.5%). The results can be used to improve the supervision system of certification bodies of farmers, who produce environment-friendly agricultural products.

• Korean Journal of Organic Agriculture
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.151-169
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• 2007

By the environment-friendly(hereafter EF) agricultural policy and toward the safety food of consumers, there is much glowing supply and demand fur EF agricultural products, in Korea. But, in general, EF agricultural products are blown as unique, unreasonable and high price system. This study aims to make clare the main bodies and competition structure in EF agricultural products and the different from the agricultural products. The mail results of this study are summarized as follows. Firstly, farmers and consumers directly participate in the distribution, and the major distributors participate in the market of EF agricultural products after the certification system is got ready. Because EF agricultural products is not dealt and the price system is not built up in agricultural wholesale market. Secondly, the distribution route of EF agricultural products is organized the unified organization by the main bodies such as farmers, consumers co-op, and special distributors. In any step of distribution, the main body of distribution surely deals with the contracted farmers, consumers co-op, and special distributors. Accordingly, it is said that EF agricultural products has the competition structure between the distribution route organized the unified organization rather than between main bodies in the each steps of distribution.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Organic Agriculture Conference
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• 2009.12a
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• pp.288-288
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• 2009

WTO가 진행되고 한미 FTA 협상타결로 농업농촌이 어려움을 격고 있으며 EU, 중국, 인도 등과의 FTA 협상도 검토되고 있다. 또한 소득수준 향상으로 소비자들이 웰빙 건강식품에 대한 관심이 고조되면서 이제는 농산물의 안전성과 기능성, 맛 등이 우수한 고품질 안전농산물 생산이 농업의 핵심과제로 대두되고 있다. 이와 같이 급변하는 농업여건에 대응해 나가기 위해서는 농업정책의 최우선과제인 친환경농업에 적극 동참하여 안전하고 우수한 농산물을 생산해야 할 것이다. 잎들깨의 재배에 있어 주생산 요소의 한 가지는 영양생장을 잘 조절해야 하고 기비보다는 추비에 보다 많은 기술이 요구되고 있다. 이에 본 연구의 목적은 잎들깨 추비시용에 있어 화학비료를 대체 유기질 비료를 이용하여 추비수준별 생육 및 수량성을 구명 하는데 있다. 재배방법은 재식거리는 10 cm${\times}$7cm(137,500주/10a) 로 하였으며 기비는 유기질비료(N-P-K=3.2:4.2:1.1)를 N량 기준으로 5.2kg/10a 을 시용하였다. 추비시용 처리는 10a당 N 0kg, N1.2kg, N1.5kg, N 1.8kg 등 4처리를 두었으며, 추비는 유기질 비료 (N-P-K=4.0-2.0-1.5)를 N 기준으로 생육에 따라 매회 수확 후에 시용 하였으며, 시용 방법에 있어 관수는 1 회 급여시 유기질 비료를 10a당 물 5톤에 희석하여 총 5회를 주었으며 관수방법은 점적호스를 이용하여 저면 관수 하였다. 재배기간 중 10a당 T-N 시용량은 N 0kg 재배는 5.2kg, N 1.2kg 재배는 11.2kg, N 1.5kg재배는 12.7kg, N 1.8kg재배는 14.2kg을 시용하였다. 재배 후 처리별 N 흡수량은 N 1.8kg구 33.1kg, N 1.5kg구 30.0kg, N 1.2kg구 25.7kg, N 0kg구 18.1kg순으로 나타났다. 생육은 초장, 경경, 엽장, 엽폭, 엽중은 추비 시용량이 높을수록 향상되었고, 마디수 발생은 추비 수준 간 변동이 없었다. 병해충 발생정도는 병은 시들음병, 역병, 노균병 순으로 발생하였고, 충은 잎말이나방, 잿빛곰팡이, 진딧물 순으로 발생되었다. 수량성은 N 1.5kg 재배구가 N 1.2kg 대비 115%, N 0kg 대비 169%를 수확하여 타 처리에 비해 비교적 높게 나타났다.

• Korean Journal of Organic Agriculture
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• v.30 no.2
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• pp.207-230
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• 2022

A survey on the understanding of environment-friendly certification system was conducted for certified operators. The survey included the necessity of certification system, difficulties in producing certified products, and general evaluation of the current certification system. Certified operators were generally satisfied with the certification system in terms of the certification standards, the public subsidy programs, and the farm management costs. Individuals with parallel production farms were relatively less satisfied than the group with full-time organic farmers. Analysis using the ranking probit model indicated that the longer the certification experience, the more highly aware the need for the certification system was. Our results indicated that policy strategies are needed to enlarge the marketability of environment-friendly agricultural products since economic factors of organic products were the most important factor for maintaining and expanding certification in overseas as well as in Korea. It seems to be necessary to implement economic triggers for certified operators to continue their certification programs by promoting the transition period certification for individual farms in parallel with conventional agriculture. Analysis of the variables correlated with the expansion of environment-friendly agriculture by the logit model implied that certified operators with the younger age and higher annual incomes were more likely to expand environment-friendly agriculture. Therefore, it might also be important to provide financial support and incentives for new entry farmers to participate in environment-friendly agriculture and establish a system to share the know-how of successful certified organic farmers.

• Korean Journal of Organic Agriculture
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.117-137
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• 2006

Environment-friendly(EF) agricultural policy developed to support high-quality farm products, such as organic farm products, doing so for the sake of strengthening the competitive power of Korean agriculture after the agreement of UR. The details of the policy are as follows : enforcing certification of organic farm products, establishing of the Law of Fostering the EF agriculture, carrying out the order of direct-payment, setting up the Five Year Plan for EF agriculture, etc. This study focuses on the background of social economy, the standpoint of EF farming in agricultural policy, and the analysis of the characteristics in EF agriculture. Three aspects in the background of the policy are as follows : the social movement, the social economy, and the social system. The standpoint and characteristics of the policy are studied by the analysis of the target and means of the policy which is based on the policy documents.

• Journal of agriculture & life science
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• v.50 no.2
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• pp.25-32
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• 2016

A severe outbreak of gray mold on kenaf (Hibiscus cannabinus L.) was observed on kenaf grown in the research field of Gyeongsangnam-do Agricultural Research and Extension Services, Jinju, Korea in 2014. Gray mold appeared on young plants as gray-brown velvety mold covering stems and leaves. Infections that girdled the stem caused wilting above the infected area and developed a canker. The casual fungus formed grayish brown colonies on potato dextrose agar. The conidia were one celled, mostly ellipsoid or ovoid in shape, colorless or pale brown in color, and 6-18 × 4-10 ㎛ in size. The conidiophores were 15-32 ㎛ in length. These measurements and taxonomic characteristics were most similar to those of Botrytis. DNA sequencing and phylogenetic analysis of the complete internal transcribed spacer rRNA gene region confirmed that the fungal isolates were indeed Borytis cinerea. Koch's postulates were supported by pathogenicity tests conducted on healthy plants. On the basis of mycological characteristics and pathogenicity test on host plants, the fungus was identified as Botrytis cinerea. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report of a gray mold caused by B. cinerea on kenaf in Korea.