• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제31권7호
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• pp.1017-1035
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• 2018

The European Union (EU) is the world's third largest producer of beef. This contributes to the economy, rural development, social life, culture and gastronomy of Europe. The diversity of breeds, animal types (cows, bulls, steers, heifers) and farming systems (intensive, extensive on permanent or temporary pastures, mixed, breeders, feeders, etc) is a strength, and a weakness as the industry is often fragmented and poorly connected. There are also societal concerns regarding animal welfare and environmental issues, despite some positive environmental impacts of farming systems. The EU is amongst the most efficient for beef production as demonstrated by a relative low production of greenhouse gases. Due to regional differences in terms of climate, pasture availability, livestock practices and farms characteristics, productivity and incomes of beef producers vary widely across regions, being among the lowest of the agricultural systems. The beef industry is facing unprecedented challenges related to animal welfare, environmental impact, origin, authenticity, nutritional benefits and eating quality of beef. These may affect the whole industry, especially its farmers. It is therefore essential to bring the beef industry together to spread best practice and better exploit research to maintain and develop an economically viable and sustainable beef industry. Meeting consumers' expectations may be achieved by a better prediction of beef palatability using a modelling approach, such as in Australia. There is a need for accurate information and dissemination on the benefits and issues of beef for human health and for environmental impact. A better objective description of goods and services derived from livestock farming is also required. Putting into practice "agroecology" and organic farming principles are other potential avenues for the future. Different future scenarios can be written depending on the major driving forces, notably meat consumption, climate change, environmental policies and future organization of the supply chain.

• Journal of Plant Biotechnology
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• 제37권3호
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• pp.243-249
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• 2010

Molecular farming is production of pharmaceutically and industrially important proteins in plants. Plants and plant cell culture systems have been used as bio-factory to produce recombinant proteins such as monoclonal antibodies, enzymes, vaccines, hormones, interleukins, commercial enzymes and etc. The terms molecular farming, biofarming, molecular pharming, phytomanufacturing, recombinant or plant-made industrials, planta-pharma, plant bioreactors, plant biofactory, and pharmaceutical gardening are used interchangeably. Molecular farming can provide safe and inexpensive pharmaceutical proteins as well as commercial ones. In spite of several advantages of molecular farming such as safety and inexpensive cost, there are also a couple of drawbacks in the existing technology. One of them is low expression level of target gene in plants, which has been improved by optimizing gene-based codon usage, screening of strong promoters, expression of transcription factors, subcellular targeting of target proteins, chloroplast transformation, and transient expression using viral expression system (magnifection). Some plant-based commercial proteins have already been in markets and more than twenty plant-based pharmaceuticals have been in clinical trials, from that we can expect that several plant-based pharmaceutical proteins will be seen in the markets in the near future.

• 농업과학연구
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• 제29권2호
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• pp.135-148
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• 2002

In recent years, domestic market environment of rice production is confronted with the problems of excessive production and decrease in per capita consumption, resulting in steady decline of domestic rice price. Moreover, as new trade negotiations of WTO or FTA are being forwarded, cheap price of imported rice will also make the rice production environment being worse off. One of the possible production strategies to relieve this situation could be expanding farm size, which increases market competitiveness in terms of cost-saving. Since 1990's, one of the main agricultural policies for rice production in Korea has been expanding farm size. This study aims at 1)exploring brief history of Korean government's agricultural policy for expanding farm size, 2)examining economic effect of farming size expansion, and 3)discussing major role of government to promote appropriate programs for rice-farming and producers. Main conclusion suggests that appropriate farming size should be expanded upto at least five hectares per farm, with producers' effort to reduce farming costs and continuous investments on agricultural infrastructures including irrigation systems, etc. Continuous government's investment on operation and maintenance on water facility is also one of the important factors in expanding farm size.

• 한국유기농업학회지
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• 제28권2호
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• pp.235-250
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• 2020

작물 재배 방법이 토양의 미생물 군집 특성과 화학성에 미치는 영향을 검토하였다. 이를 위해서 다섯 곳의 고추 관행 재배지와 다섯 곳의 유기농 재배지 토양을 채취한 후, 16S rRNA 유전자 기반의 파이로시퀀싱 기법으로 미생물 군집을 조사하였다. 분석 결과 총 22개의 세균 문으로 구성되었으며 Proteobacteria 문(33.0 ± 5.7%), Actinobacteria 문(19.9 ± 9.7%) 및 Firmicutes 문(13.6 ± 5.0%)이 우점하였고, 이들은 전체 상대풍부도의 66%를 차지하였다. 고추 관행 재배지와 유기농 재배지의 미생물 군집 분포를 비교했을 때 전반적으로 서로 다른 군집 특성을 나타내었다. 또한 관행 재배 토양에서는 Actinobacteria 문과 Chloroflexi 문이 상대적으로 풍부하였고, 유기 재배 토양에서는 Proteobacteria 문과 Firimicutes 문이 상대적으로 풍부하였다. 특히 Streptomyces 속과 Bacillus 속의 상대풍부도는 관행 재배 토양과 유기 재배 토양 간에 상당한 차이를 보였다. 또한 토양 화학 성에 의하여 세균 군집 변화가 관찰되었는데, Proteobacteria 문의 Rhizobiales 목과 Actinobacteria 문의 Streptomyces 속은 pH에 의해 세균 군집이 바뀌었고, Firimicutes 문의 Bacillus 속은 유기물 함량에 의해 군집 분포가 바뀌었다. 본 연구결과는 재배관리에 따른 토양의 물리-화학성의 변화가 미생물 군집 분포에 뚜렷하게 관련(p<0.05)되어 있다는 것을 보여주었다.

• 한국유기농업학회지
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• 제11권3호
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• pp.1-19
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• 2003

The operation of a five day workweek seems to be increased continuously, Many city-workers will make good use of their spare time and search after a lot of devices that can seek for the maximum value of leisure utility. The demand of potential customers that want to enjoy weekend in farming villages is coming out greatly. That is, the condition of users that will travel the farming villages is getting better. But the actual states of farming villages are not ready in many parts yet. Therefore we must activate the tourist attraction in farming villages that can be satisfied the city-workers' expectation. And after making the sightseeing environment infrastructure, we must develop the programs intimate with environment, improve the sightseeing agricultural management and consolidate various systems as soon as possible. So in this study, after investigating the demand preference degree of city-workers, I tried to grope an activation plan with the base which will reach. Being more urgent what more, not the simple sightseeing agriculture that the farming experience was the focus of, but it is very important to develop the program of environment sightseeing agriculture. It will lay the stress on playing and education culture which city-workers can enjoy and experience. And with constructing the base facility like a city form, we must develop cheap and various goods and the execution of modernized weekend farms. For this, first the consciousness conversion against the customer management of farmers must precede and the change of government policy and the support polity is important. I hope that this study with the five-day workweek has the chance to contribute in the economic growth of farming villages and efficient use and management of the natural environment resources through the activation of sightseeing agriculture.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제29권3호
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• pp.441-453
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• 2019

Organic farming is considered an effective form of sustainable agricultural management. However, understanding of soil microbial diversity and composition under long-term organic and conventional farming is still limited and controversial. In this study, the Illumina MiSeq platform was applied to investigate the responses of soil bacterial and fungal diversity and compositions to organic farming (OF) and improved conventional farming (CF, applied straw retention) in the rice-wheat rotation system. The results highlighted that the alpha diversity of microbial communities did not differ significantly, except for higher bacterial diversity under OF. However, there were significant differences in the compositions of the soil bacterial and fungal communities between organic and conventional farming. Under our experimental conditions, through the ecological functional analysis of significant different or unique bacterial and fungal taxonomic members at the phyla and genus level, OF enhanced nitrogen, sulfur, phosphorus and carbon dynamic cycling in soil with the presence of Nodosilinea, Nitrospira, LCP-6, HB118, Lyngbya, GOUTA19, Mesorhizobium, Sandaracinobacter, Syntrophobacter and Sphingosinicella, and has the potential to strengthen soil metabolic ability with Novosphingobium. On the other hand, CF increased the intensity of nitrogen cycling with Ardenscatena, KD1-23, Iamia, Nitrosovibrio and Devosia, but enriched several pathogen fungal members, including Coniochaeta, Corallomycetella, Cyclaneusma, Cystostereum, Fistulina, Curvularia and Dissoconium.

• 한국지역지리학회지
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• 제3권2호
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• pp.121-150
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• 1997

본 연구는 경북의 사례지역 비교분석을 통하여 임차농의 지역성을 밝히는 것이 목적이다. 이를 위하여 대구시의 농업 공간체계(대략 경상북도와 일치)를 대상으로 중심도시에서의 거리와 영농형태에 따라 5개 군(郡)을 연구대상지역으로 선정한 후 각 군을 대표하는 마을(이동(里洞))을 택하여 총 77개 임차농가에 대한 설문조사를 무작위로 행하였다. 연구지역의 범위가 제한적이면서도 분석의 결과는 임차농의 지역성을 잘 드러내고 있다. 이러한 지역성은 특정 공간체계가 형성하는 공간질서와 이 공간질서내에서 특정 장소가 발현하는 국지성이 결합하여 형성된 것이다. 이 경우의 공간질서는 주로 거리조락으로 나타나고 국지성은 지역의 고유한 자연환경과 인구요인의 차이에서 발현된다. 한편 본 연구지역의 지역성을 포괄적으로 파악할 수 있는 기본 기준은 지역농업의 상업화 정도인데 그것은 한국의 임차농이 봉건적 소작농에서 자본주의적 차지농(借地農)으로 이행하는 과도기에 있기 때문이다. 이상과 같은 임차농의 현저한 지역성은 기존의 획일적인 임차농 설명논리의 현실 괴리문제를 제기하였다.

• 한국토양비료학회지
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• 제44권4호
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• pp.581-590
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• 2011

Organic farming is rapidly expanding worldwide. Crop growth in organic systems greatly depends on the functions performed by soil microbes, and nutrient supply weed suppression by green manure crops input. Four red-pepper production systems were compared: 1) bare ground (conventional system); 2) hairy vetch monoculture; 3) rye monoculture; and 4) hairy vetch-rye mixture. Soil inorganic N reached the peak at 30 DAI and hairy vetch monoculture was the highest ($192mg\;kg^{-1}$) and soil total carbon was fluctuated sporadically during the experiment. Carbohydrate and phenolic compounds in soil kept significantly higher in green manure crops systems from 10 DBI to 30 DAI, however the level was the maximum at 10 DBI (carbohydrate) and 30 DAI (phenolic comounds). Incorporation of green manure crops residue enhanced soil microbial biomass C and N throughout the growing season except that MBN in rye was reduced after incorporation. Green manure crops systems suppressed weed occurrence and, in particular, it was prominent in rye monoculture. Mineral elements composition and production in red-pepper fruits were markedly decreased in green manure crops systems although hairy vetch monoculture has come close to bare ground (NPK-applied). Therefore, it was suggested that higher biomass production should be performed not only to improve soil quality and suppress weeds but to yield suitable red-pepper fruits in green manure crops-based organic farming.

• 한국유기농업학회지
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.129-143
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• 2005

Attempting to make an economic valuation of semi-liquid manure raises various complex questions. These are the valuation under different farming conditions, cost-benefit analysis in connection with the investment requirements of different semi-liquid manure systems, different storage capacities, transportation distances and treatment procedures. In the following, there questions will be discussed : 1. What value do the different types of semi-liquid manure have under different farming conditions? 2. Which storage capacities are economically justified? 3. Under which conditions is the transport of semi-liquid manure over long distances profitable?

• 농업과학연구
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• 제20권2호
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• pp.211-220
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• 1993

Sustainable agriculture is a management system for ecological equilibrium and long-run productivity. Conversions from conventional to sustainable farming systems could have good effects on future generations' productivity and agricultural market opening in Korea. However, farmers are not willing to adopt sustainable farming system as because of farm income reductions, so government programs may be needed. Government programs should have research support for cost reductions, direct support for advocational livestock breedings and income security, and relative price changes for reducing agricultural chemicals.