• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• 제7권2호
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• pp.36-44
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• 1983

Farm population was rapidly decreasing due to shift of the people from farm sector to the non-farm sector caused by the economic growth of the country. Especially, a great shortage of farm labor in busy farming period in June and October is becoming a serious problem in maintaining or promoting land productivity. The peak of labor requirement in summer is caused by rice transplanting and barley harvesting. In order to reduce the restrictions imposed on farm management by the concurrence of labor requirement and the lack of labor, the experimental study for mechanization of barley harvesting has been carried out in the fields. 1. The machines for barley harvesting were knap-sack type reapers, windrow reaper (power tiller attachment), binder and combine. The order of higher efficiency of machine for barley harvesting was combine, binder, windrow reaper (WR), knapsack type reaper 1(KSTR1), and knap sack type reaper 2(KSTR2; mist and duster attachment). 2. The ratio of grain loss for the manual, binder, and combine plot was about four percent of total field yield. 3. The total yield of barley in 35 days and 40 days harvesting after heading were 514 kg and 507kg per 10 ares respectively. The yield of 35 days-plot was higher than other experimental plots. 4. The lowest yield was recorded in 30 days-plot due to the large quantity of immatured grains and having lighter 1000-grain weight. The ratio of immatured grains was 2.66 percent and 1000-grain weight was 29.4 grams. 5. The total harvesting cost of the windrow reaper was 10,178 won per 10 ares. It was the lowest value compared to other machines. The next were combine, binder, KSTR1, KSTR2, and manual in sequence. As a result, the optimum time of barley harvesting for mechanization was 35-40 days after heading. Combine, binder, and windrow reaper were recommended as the suitable machines for barley harvesting in the work efficiency. However, in total harvesting cost, the windrow reaper was the most promising machine for barley harvesting.

• 한국농공학회논문집
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• 제49권1호
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• pp.35-42
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• 2007

This paper develops a Sustainable Regional Economic Growth Model (SREG) which estimates the relation of labor population change and employment increase in each occupation and maximum limits and minimum requirements of employment increase by labor population change in a specified region using multiplier theory. To develop the proposed model, sustainable regional economic growth is defined as a steady increase of labor population over a long term period and the limit of employment increase is defined as the estimated labor population change in the region with no need for commutation from the surrounded areas. Developed model was applied to 67 county in Pennsylvania State and the results revealed that the investment in infrastructure occupations, such as transportation, warehousing, utilities, information, communication, and other public utilities, maximizes the effects for increasing employment, whereas finance, insurance, and real estate occupations have minimum effects for increasing employment. Calculated minimum requirements of occupations show that infra-structure occupations is a critical factor for labor population change and maximum limits of occupations show that agriculture and finance occupations are difficult to increase independently.

• 한국생물환경조절학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국생물환경조절학회 2000년도 학술발표논문집
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• pp.3-16
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• 2000

Protection agriculture is the essential choice for human to increase the efficiency of limited crop production area under harsh and changeable weather boundary conditions, extend growing season, maximize the crop yields, and then increase the sustainable income of the grower. The investment costs far greenhouses as well as labor and energy costs are much higher than for conventional plant production systems, so these can only be balanced by better crop yields, higher labor productivity, and higher energy efficiency. (omitted)

• 한국지역지리학회지
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.21-34
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• 2001

우리나라의 농촌에서는 산업화와 밀접히 연관되면서 시설작물의 재배가 증가해 왔고, 특히 1970년대 이후에는 대도시 주변지역에서 급격히 증가해 왔다. 개별농가의 영농유형은 농업노동력의 양보다는 질적 수준과 관련이 있으며, 노동력의 질적 수준에서는 특히 경영주의 연령이 중요하다. 경영규모는 경영주의 연령과 관련이 있으며 미작 재배농가보다는 시설작물 재배농가의 경영주 평균연령이 더 젊고 경영규모가 더 크다. 시설작물 재배의 주목적은 영농을 통한 상업성의 제고가 가장 원인이지만 부족한 노동력 때문에 경영규모에는 한계가 있고 특히 농산물 가격의 불안정과 수익성 악화는 적극적인 경영규모 확대를 제한하고 있다. 시설작물 재배농가의 경영규모 확대는 농지의 매입보다 임차지의 확대를 통해 이루어지며, 이때 영농조건이 유리한 농지를 중심으로 임대차가 발생된다. 결과적으로 대도시 근교 농촌지역의 유지와 발전을 위해서는 영농의 상업화와 수익성 제가 중요한 요인이지만 토지이용의 효율성 측면에서는 농지의 자연적 조건이 중요하게 작용된다. 그러나 농외부문의 취업기반이나 교육시설의 보완 없이는 촌락 공동체의 유지측면에서 가족 구성원의 분리문제와 농업노동력 부족문제가 해결될 가능성이 낮다.

• 한국전자통신학회논문지
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.749-754
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• 2021

농업인구의 감소, 고령화 등의 문제를 해결하기 위해 다양한 농작업의 자동화를 목적으로 농업용 로봇의 연구가 활발히 진행 중이다. 농가 작업 중 가장 노동력이 많이 투입되는 과정은 수확 과정으로 타 과정 대비 약 2~3배 소모된다. 농가의 수확물 이송 작업은 인건비가 가장 많이 들고 작업 중 부상의 위험성도 있기 때문에 이송 작업을 농업용 로봇을 통해 자동화시키면 안전성 향상과 더불어 생산성을 대폭 향상할 수 있다. 따라서 본 논문은 농가 작업 현장에 최적화되고 자율주행이 가능한 농업용 로봇을 제안한다.

• 농업과학연구
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• 제36권2호
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• pp.233-244
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• 2009

This study analyzed the income of orange farming of Lichuan, Jiangxi Province in China. Using a questionnaire, 36 farmhouseholds of Lichuan were surveyed. The results are as follows. First, through the investigation of Lichuan orange farming farmhouseholds, we know that the direct expenses of Lichuan orange is around 2,250 RMB/10a and the direct expenses per household's are about 32,000 RMB. The average production of Lichuan orange is 1,548 kg/10a and the income is around 2,200 RMB/10a. The results showed that in Lichuan area orange farming benefit is more than rice so orange farming has been increasing. Second, the direct expense of Lichuan orange farming, 91% is material cost, 8% is labor cost, depreciation cost is only 1.4%. This result show that orange farming in Lichuan is very labor intensive. Third, there are a lots of young orange trees in Lichuan, so income would be increasing through the year.

• 한국농업기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국농업기계학회 2000년도 THE THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY ENGINEERING. V.II
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• pp.460-471
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• 2000

The Higher industerialization, The shorter labor for fanning with not also reduction of quantity like as agricultural population but also deterioration of quality like as old age or womon in Korea. Most of Farmers magnified their farm land for increasing income, but they have been in difficulties because of employment of skillful driver of farm machinery and ensurance farm labor which need finishing seasonable works. (omitted)

• 농촌지도와개발
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• 제3권1호
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• pp.55-66
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• 1996

Agricultural products are inferior in their competitiveness in the world market mainly due to die high production cost which could be attributed to the rising land and labor cost in Korea. The small scale farming system with the lower production infra structure requires relatively intensive input labor for the reduction of production cost of agricultural products and impediment in the mechanization of farming systems. There are limitations in the cultivation techniques that seek out other directions for the raising competitiveness in the world market of basic food crops. Future goals to raise competitiveness of basic food crops in Korea should include the following: 1. Fostering of the farmers organization by crop items. 2. Agribusiness should integrate management with priority given to farmers. 3. Raise competitiveness to find out the system of obtaining on from the consumers.

• Advances in robotics research
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• 제2권3호
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• pp.201-217
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• 2018

Agriculture production is a critical human intensive task, which takes place in all regions of the world. The process to grow and harvest crops is labor intensive in many countries due to the lack of automation and advanced technology. Much of the difficult, dangerous and dirty labor of crop production can be automated with intelligent and robotic platforms. We propose an intelligent, agent-oriented robotic team, which can enable the process of harvesting, gathering and collecting crops and fruits, of many types, from agricultural fields. This paper describes a novel robotic organization enabling humans, robots and agents to work together for automation of gathering and collection functions. The focus of the research is a model, called HARMS, which can enable Humans, software Agents, Robots, Machines and Sensors to work together indistinguishably. With this model, any capability-based human-like organization can be conceived and modeled, such as in manufacturing or agriculture. In this research, we model, design and implement a technology application of knowledge-based robot-to-robot and human-to-robot collaboration for an agricultural gathering and collection function. The gathering and collection functions were chosen as they are some of the most labor intensive and least automated processes in the process acquisition of agricultural products. The use of robotic organizations can reduce human labor and increase efficiency allowing people to focus on higher level tasks and minimizing the backbreaking tasks of agricultural production in the future. In this work, the HARMS model was applied to three different robotic instances and an integrated test was completed with satisfactory results that show the basic promise of this research.

• 한국농업기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국농업기계학회 1996년도 International Conference on Agricultural Machinery Engineering Proceedings
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• pp.1045-1054
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• 1996

Tissue culture, or micropropagation , is being used for the vegetative multiplication of several hundred millions of superior plants annually for horticulture and forestry. It is often more expensive than other forms of propagation using cuttings or seeds, because it is labor intensive and more specialized . The aim of automation is to reduce the cost per plantlet by reducing labor input, and finally, to yield profit, as business activity . Labor usually account for 70-80% of th ein vitro and ex vitro cost. This paper aspects of tissue culture automization , such as technical and economical approaches in view of automization.