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Effects of Gibberellin Treatment on the Berry Thinning Labor-save and Fruit Quality of 'Campbell Early' Grapevine (포도 '캠벨얼리'의 지베렐린 처리에 의한 적립 노력 절감 및 과실 품질)

  • Moon, Byung-Woo;Moon, Young-Ji;Lee, Young-Cheul;Nam, Ki-Woong
    • Journal of Practical Agriculture & Fisheries Research
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    • v.17 no.1
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    • pp.133-144
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    • 2015
  • A study was conducted to examine treatment method, proper concentration, and treatment time of gibberellin(GA3) for human labor saving at harvest in 'Campbell Early' grapevine. Fruit berry thinning reduced labor by GA3 40ppm treatment of 5 days prior to full bloom, and, at GA3 10, 20, and 40ppm during full bloom, by 14.27~19.15 minutes/tree. Therefore, although labor was reduced by dipping treatment at 40ppm of 5 days prior to full bloom and 20 and 40 ppm during full bloom, severe shattering was observed at 40ppm dipping treatment, and soluble solids decreased, which suggests difficulty with commercialization. The result suggests that proper time and concentration of GA3 fruit cluster dipping treatment at full bloom and 10 and 20ppm, respectively.

Prospects of Stable Production Technologies for Food Crops (식량 안정생산기술의 전망)

  • Chae Je Cheon;Gang Yang Sun;Lee Yeong Ho;Nam Jung Hyeon
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Crop Science Conference
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    • 1999.11a
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    • pp.102-144
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    • 1999
  • The major problems of food crop cultivation in Korea are low yield of most crops except rice. inefficient cultivation techniques for aged farmers. and low international competibility. Therefore, development of cultivation techniques of food crops should aim the yield. quality improvement, labor reduction and production cost. The primary issue for increasing the yield of soybean, barely and wheat is to reduce the yield gap between the farmer's yield and recommended ones of experiment station. More advanced cultivation techniques needs to be developed. and/or the conventional breeding methods to be reconsidered. The newly developed labor-saving mechanized technique needs to reduce labor hours , and the cost of agricultural implements and machineries. In other words the labor-saving mechanized technique should be developed based on the improvement of total farming system as well as systemic fundamental innovation of cultural methods. The efficiency of solar energy use in food production of Korea in 1997 is as low as $0.52{\%}$ so there is much room to increase yield. It is recommendable that the concept of food Production should be changed to energy Producing efficiency Per unit area basis from volume and weight of food materials. Moreover, introduction of resonable cropping system is needed to increase yield of main crops, farmer's income, solar energy use efficiency, and decrease of land service expenditure. Current cropping system emphasized on economic crops. especially in vegetables , is not desirable for resonable use of arable land. stability of agricultural management and staple food crop self-sufficiency ratio. It is desirable to increase food crops . that are energy of carbohydrate and protein rich and land dependent crops. in cropping system. And the agronomist should develop the cultural methods to replace food crops for food self-sufficiency and stable farming management instead of economic crops in current cropping system. Low-input and environmentally-sound crop cultivation techniques, especially nitrogen-reducing culture technique which is directly related to food crop quality, also needs to be developed urgently. The extended cultivation of corn in upland and barely and wheat in lowland as a feed stuffs is recommended to prevent further decrease of food self-sufficiency ratio, which is mainly caused by the high reliance on imported feed grain. It is also considered that the calculation and presentation methods of standard agricultural income needs to be improved. The current calculation method uses unit land area of 10a regardless of crop kinds , characteristics of agricultural management and cultivation scale. So, it is apt to lead misunderstanding of farm income value. Therefore. it should show an income of average farmers for certain number of years. Research and developing system for food producing is not desirable because they are conducted currently individual crop and mono-culture basis. But actual agricultural income is usually earned by cropping system including upland and lowland. For example. the barley and wheat is usually cultivated in double cropping system. The cooperation among research institutes such as university agribusiness. government and farmers is indispensible. The public information and education on importance and consumption habit of food crops is necessary in Korean society to increase food self-sufficiency through nationwide cooperation.

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Variation in Fruit Characteristics of 3x Progenies Obtained from a Cross between 4x and 2x Grape Cultivars (4배체와 2배체 포도 품종간 교배를 통해서 생성된 3배체 후대개체에서 과실특성의 변이)

  • Heo, Jae-Yun;Park, Sung-Min
    • Horticultural Science & Technology
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    • v.34 no.5
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    • pp.761-770
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    • 2016
  • This study investigated the variation in fruit characteristics between different triploid progenies derived from a cross between tetraploid and diploid grape cultivars, with the aim of developing high quality, labor-saving triploid grapes. No differences were found in fruit quality traits such as soluble solids content and titratable acidity, whereas significant variation was noted in cluster weight induced by a one-time application of GA3 (100 ppm) on the triploid progeny of different cross combinations. The cluster weight was higher in progeny obtained from 'Kyoho' ${\times}$ 'Sekirei' than for offspring derived from other cross combinations; deviation in the mean cluster weight was also small for 'Kyoho' ${\times}$ 'Sekirei' progeny. These results suggest that specific cross combinations, such as 'Kyoho' ${\times}$ 'Sekirei', can be used to efficiently breed new, labor-saving seedless grape cultivars.

Comparison of Rhizome Harvesting Methods Saururus chinensis (삼백초의 기계수확 효율비교)

  • 남상영;김익제;김인재;김민자;이철희;김태수;손석용
    • KOREAN JOURNAL OF CROP SCIENCE
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    • v.47 no.3
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    • pp.157-160
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    • 2002
  • This study was carried out to the harvesting efficiency of equipment used fer harvesting of rhizomes of Saururus chinensis Bail. Labor-saving efficiency showed 60-67% enhancement by using tillage operations with power tiller, digger attached to power tiller, and digger attached to tractor compared with manual harvest. Loss percentage of rhizomes by harvesting equipments was 2.2-8.8% lower than by manual harvest. Fresh rhizome yield and income index were increased 3-10% and 13-27% respectively by harvesting equipments, showing the highest yield and index in digger attached to tractor, Thus, digger attached to tractor showed the most effective harvest equipment for Saururus chinensis rhizome.

Low-Input and Energy Efficiency of Direct Seeding Method in Rice (벼 직파재배 노동력 투입 및 에너지 효율성 비교)

  • 이호진;서준한;이정삼;정영상;박정근
    • KOREAN JOURNAL OF CROP SCIENCE
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    • v.41 no.1
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    • pp.115-122
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    • 1996
  • One of the most laborious work in rice farming is transplanting of rice seedling which has been required preparation of nursery bed and care of seedling during one month period. In this research, direct seeding in dry paddy(DS) and direct seeding in wet paddy(WS) were practiced to compare with traditional transplanting(TP) in Suwon. Growth stages in direct seeding were delayed as its planting time was about 21 days later than those of TP. Heading stage of direct seeding at Suwon was delayed about 9 days as compared to transplanting culture. Rice yield was not different between the seeding practises. Working-hour saving was about 17%(DS) and 28%(WS). Production cost of direct seeding was decreased 20%(DS) and 32%(WS), respectively. Amount of rice production per a unit working-hour in direct seeding could increase 14%(DS) and 39%(WS) compared to that of TP, respectively. Therefore, direct seeding could save significantly working hour and production cost without reducing rice yield. WS was more effective than DS in saving labor and production cost. Direct seeding was not efficient method in input of farming energy and agricultural chemicals.

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A Household Model for Economic and Social Studies with a Special Reference to Saving function of Korea (인구 변동의 경제적 사회적 영향에 관한 연구 -가구 구성의 변화가 한국의 가계저축율 변동에 미치는 영향을 중심으로-)

  • 송위섭
    • Korea journal of population studies
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    • v.18 no.2
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    • pp.115-168
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    • 1995
  • It is a common wisdom that the long-term economic development of Korea chiefly depends not only on the steady increase of the capital formation but also on the stable increase of the national saving. And also it is a widely accepted opinion that household saving plays a significant role for the smooth supply of investment funds. For the empirical analysis on the determining factors of household saving, consumption function of the household of Korea was utilized indirectly. The reason is that consumption function is regarded as a stable function whereas saving function is considered to be an unstable function of the relevant independent variables. In order to carry out the regression process of the consumption functions, data on the family income and expenditure survey and the farm household economy survey was used. The regression result could be summarized as follows : Firstly, household income and the number of the employed in the household have the negative effect in determining the consumption ratio of the Korean households. On the other hand, ages and the educational attainment of the household heads as well as the number of the household members have the positive effect. During the early part of 21st century, the consumption ratio of the Korean households is expected to be decreased because of the increasing trend of household income, and the ever increasing number of the employed member of the household based on the increasing trend of the labor force participation rate of women and the decrease of the average size of the number of household members owing to widespread nuclear family system. On the other hand, the consumption ratio of the household of Korea is expected to be increased because of the continuous increase of the average ages of the household heads caused by the population aging phenomena and improvement of the educational attainment of the household heads. But on the whole, household saving ratio is expected to be increased owing to the secular downward trend of the consumption and therefore no significant difficulties are anticipated for the smooth provision of investment resources needed to have long-term economic progress of Korea.

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Development of the paper bagging machine for grapes (휴대용 포도자동결속기 개발연구)

  • Park, K.H.;Lee, Y.C.;Moon, B.W.
    • Journal of Practical Agriculture & Fisheries Research
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    • v.11 no.1
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    • pp.79-94
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    • 2009
  • The research project was conducted to develop a paper bagging machine for grape. This technology was aimed to highly reduce a labor for paper bagging in grape and bakery. In agriculture labor and farm population has rapidly decreased since 1980 in Korea so there was so limit in labor. In particular there is highly population in women and old age at rural area and thus labor cost is so high. Therefore a labor saving technology in agricultural sector might be needed to be replaced these old age with mechanical and labor saving tool in agriculture. The following was summarized of the research results for development of a paper bagging machine for grape. 1. Development of a new paper bagging machine for grape - This machine was designed by CATIA VI2/AUTO CAD2000 programme. - A paper bagging machine was mechanically binded a paper bag of grape which should be light and small size. This machine would be designed for women and old age with convenience during bagging work at the field site. - This machine was manufactured with total weight of less than 350g. - An overage bagging operation was more than 99% at the actual field process. - A paper bagging machine was designed with cartridge type which would be easily operated between rows and grape branches under field condition. - The type of cartridge pin was designed as a C-ring type with the length of 500mm which was good for bagging both grape and bakery. - In particular this machine was developed to easily operated among vines of the grape trees. 2. Field trials of a paper bagging machine in grape - There was high in grape quality as compared to the untreated control at the application of paper bagging machine. - The efficiency of paper bagging machine was 102% which was alternative tool for the conventional. - The roll pin of paper bagging machine was good with 5.3cm in terms of bagging precision. - There was no in grape quality between the paper bagging machine and the conventional method. - Disease infection and grape break was not in difference both treatments.

Effects of Nonsupporting Methods on Growth and Yield of Cynanchum auriculatum Royle ex Wight (백수오 (이엽우피소)의 무지주 재배방법에 따른 생육 및 수량)

  • Kim, Min-Ja;Song, Beom-Heon;Nam, Sang-Young;Kim, In-Jae;Lee, Cheol-Hee;Yun, Tae
    • Korean Journal of Medicinal Crop Science
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    • v.13 no.6
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    • pp.268-272
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    • 2005
  • This study was carried out to investigate the labor saving cultivation of C. auriculatum, which has much bigger root than local variety C. wilfordii, and tested three nonsupporting methods, i.e., untreated control, top pinching, and cutting of branch-top compared with I type stake. Top growth was more vigorous in staking cultivation than in nonsupporting cultivations. Among nonsupporting methods, main vine length and total length of main vines per plant were increased in order of untreated control > top pinching > cutting of branch-top, while the opposite is true to diameter of main vein. Number of leaves per plant was lower, but leaf length and leaf width were higher in cutting of branch-top than in other nonsupporting methods. Number of branched root and diameter of main root were bigger in cutting of branch-top and in staking cultivation, while length of main root and diameter of branched root were greater in staking cultivation and in top pinching than in other treatments. Although yield of marketable root per 10a was $17.9{\sim}22.6%$ lower, income was $8%{\sim}17%$ higher in nonsupporting methods than in staking cultivation by cost saving to staking installation. Among nonsupporting methods, yield of marketable root and income were 6% and 8% higher in cutting of branch-top than in untreated control, respectively.

Intelligent Green House Control System based on Deep Learning for Saving Electric Power Consumption (전력 소모 절감을 위한 딥 러닝기반의 지능형 그린 하우스 제어 시스템)

  • Shin, Hyeonyeop;Yim, Hyokyun;Kim, Won-Tae
    • Journal of IKEEE
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    • v.22 no.1
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    • pp.53-60
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    • 2018
  • Smart farm dissemination by continuously developing IoT is one of the best solution for decreasing labor in Korea farming area because of ageing. For this reason, the number of Smart farm in Korea is being increased. The Smart farm can control farming environment such as temperature for human. Specially, The important thing is controlling proper temperature for farming. In order to control the temperature, legacy smart farms are usually using pans or air conditioners which can control the temperature. However, those devices result in increasing production cost because the electric power consumption is high. For this reason, we propose a smart farm which can predict the proper temperature after an hour by using Deep learning to minimize the electric power consumption by controlling window instead of pans or air conditioners. We can see the 83% of electric power saving by means of the proposed smart farm.