• Korean Journal of Organic Agriculture
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• v.23 no.4
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• pp.615-641
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• 2015

This study analyzes an economic efficiencies of apples, pears, and grapes farming. We evaluate an annual economic overall efficiency (OE), allocative efficiency (AE), technology efficiency (TE), pure technology efficiency (PTE), and scale efficiency (SE) using data envelopment analysis (DEA). We also measure returns to scale of farms, and the change of technical efficiency of frontier farms. Lastly we estimate the effects of some explanatory variables on allocative, pure technical, and scale efficiencies.

• Korean Journal of Organic Agriculture
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• v.21 no.1
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• pp.49-59
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• 2013

The Purpose of this paper is to analysis on farmer's awareness and satisfaction level of the project for developing large-scale environment-friendly agricultural districts (LSEAD). To analysis farmer's awareness and satisfaction level, a series of farm household surveys were conducted on farmers, take part in the project for developing LSEAD. The sample size of the survey is 80 respectively. As a survey result, awareness and practical use of facilities & equipment shows a little different outcome. Satisfaction level of the project for developing LSEAD is summarized as follows. Influence on disposal of livestock excretions and farmer's consciousness change appears 4.47 and spreading environment-friendly agriculture 4.44, distribution of environment-friendly agricultural product 4.33, and demand of environment-friendly agricultural materials 4.04. In order to sustainable development of LSEAD, a governance system should be established.

• Korean Journal of Organic Agriculture
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• v.22 no.2
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• pp.241-254
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• 2014

This case study surveyed management situations of environmentally friendly farming(EFF) producers' organization and their main activities. Farmers are aging as an average age of 55-year old and producing fruit-bearing vegetables. The EFF did not increase farmer's income, however, price and income was stabilized more than that of conventional farming because of contract farming. Farm household liabilities are caused by purchasing agricultural machinery, materials and so on. Farmers of EFF have been also cultivating conventional farming, but they don't plan much conversion intention of conventional farming into EFF owing to lack of differentiated and stable market for their EFF products. And they are guessing that EFF income will increase a little. For increasing of EFF income, they think that it is necessary to reduce production cost, produce high quality production, develop processing foods, enlarge contract farming and so on.

• Korean Journal of Organic Agriculture
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.431-445
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• 2012

In this regard, urban agriculture is developing into a variety of shapes. Urban agriculture includes various types, such as industrial agriculture, experience agriculture, educational agriculture, exchange agriculture and cyclic agriculture. The result of evaluation on citizens' values about multi-functions provided by urban agriculture can be used for policy making to overcome crisis of urban agriculture due to urban development and industrialization and to vitalize urban agriculture. The willingness-to-pay for the maintenance fund was categorized into vegetable garden users, general consumers, and all respondents, for analysis. The estimation results for the valuation of multi-functionality were KRW 20,367 per household for general consumers; KRW 22,174 for urban agriculture users; and KRW 21,467 for all respondents.

• Journal of the East Asian Society of Dietary Life
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• v.4 no.2
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• pp.39-44
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• 1994

To prepare the basic information for the fermentation of high quality persimmon vinegar in the farm. the quality of the complex fermented persimmon vinegar(CFPV) was compared to that of naturally fermented persimmon vinegar (NFPV). The titratable acidity of the CFPV was 3% which was the half concentration of the NFPV. The content of total free sugar by HPLC was 6% in CFPV and NFPV was 5%. Organic acid compositions in persimmon vinegar were oxalic acid, malic acid, lactic acid, citric acid, succinic acid and glutaric acid in addition to acetic acid. Total content of the organic acids in NFPV was higer than in CFPV. Especially, the content of latic acid in NFPV was very higher than that of CFPV. the flavour, color and taste of persimmon fruit itself in CFPV were stronger than those in NFPV.

• Korean Journal of Organic Agriculture
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• v.19 no.3
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• pp.329-341
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• 2011

This study empirically analyzes the economic validity of rape farmers. The analysis of economic evaluation is based on the benefit-cost analysis. Previous studies have undoubtedly expanded our understanding of the importance of substitution effects on a rapeseed for bio-fuels. However, earlier studies have mostly dealt with the concept of biodiesel's economics analysis, but this paper's attentions have been paid to the economic analysis of farm. The aim of this paper is suggesting the most appropriate policy brings about why farmhouses should cultivate the rape. To answer this question, this paper adopts a scenario analysis and the B/C ratio is used.

• Korean Journal of Organic Agriculture
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• v.25 no.1
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• pp.37-52
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• 2017

Three varieties of green pepper - Chungyang pepper, Cucumber-taste pepper and Nokgwang pepper - are competing with one another in consumption due to the overlapping shipment period. The objective of this study is to analyze the influence of monthly variations of shipment quantities on the wholesale market prices. A Linear Approximated Inverse Almost Ideal Demand System (LA/IAIDS) is employed with monthly data set of three different varieties of green pepper consumption. The results show that if there is an excess supply in the market, the rate of the price decline is larger for forcing culture Chungyang pepper than other pepper varieties. On the contrary, change in supply of cucumber-taste pepper and Nokgwang pepper has little effect on the price of Chungyang pepper. The results of this study can be utilized as a basic information for enhancing the farm income and promoting agricultural policies related to the establishment of self-help funds by Chungyang pepper producer groups in Gyeongnam region.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Organic Agriculture Conference
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• 2009.12a
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• pp.308-308
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• 2009

유기농액비 자가제조 방법의 표준화를 위해 농가 현황조사를 통해 유기농액비 제조방법을 분류하고 제조 시기별 성분함량 변동상을 분석하였다. 조사대상 액비는 경기 9, 강원 5, 충북, 1, 충남 20, 전남 6, 경북 5, 경남 8 등 총 54종이었다. 자가제조 유기농액비에 사용된 재료는 감, 매실, 복숭아, 사과, 참다래, 토마토, 파프리카, 양파, 파, 인삼, 미나리, 민들레, 쇠비름, 쑥, 익모초, 산야초, 황기, 환삼덩굴, 으름열매, 은행과피, 배 어린 열매, 감껍질, 깻묵, 들깨대, 물미역, 쌀뜨물, 쌀겨, 꽁치, 바다생선 (잡어), 불가사리, 생선부산물(내장, 뼈 등), 액젓부산물(해산물의 뼈가 많이 함유된 물질), 동물뼈(돼지, 닭 등), 골분, 혈분, 천매암, 천일염, 계란껍질, 조개껍질, 게껍질, 새우껍질, 굴껍질, 농가부산물, 음식부산물, 구아노, 들깨 대 숯, 참깨 대 숯 등이었다. 제조방법은 기본재료+물, 기본재료+물+미생물, 기본재료+당밀, 기본재료+당밀+미생물, 기본재료+흑설탕, 기본재료+흑설탕+미생물 등이었다. 유기농액비의 화학적 특성은 다양하였으며, 혈분을 주 원료로 한 유기농액비의 화학성변화는 시간의 경과함에 따라 pH는 4.99에서 3.85로 낮아졌지만, EC, T-C, T-N, $P_2O_5$, $K_2O$, CaO, MgO, $Na_2O$, Fe, Mn, Zn 등은 높아졌다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Organic Agriculture Conference
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• 2009.12a
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• pp.309-309
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• 2009

국내외 환경문제와 관련하여 농업환경보전 및 안전한 먹거리에 대한 소비자의 요구가 커지면서 친환경농업에 대한 관심이 높이지고 있다. 친환경농업은 화학비료와 농약의 사용을 양분종합관리 및 병해충종합관리등을 통해 저투입하는 농법과 화학비료와 농약의 대체 농자재를 사용하는 유기농법으로 나누어져 있다. 대체 농자재는 목초액, 키토산 등 시판되는 자재를 비롯하여 천혜녹즙, 한방영양제, 아미노산액비 등과 같이 농가를 중심으로 자가 제조되어 활용되고 있는 것이 특징이다. 그러나 대부분 효능이 제대로 검증되지 않고 임의로 사용되고 있기 때문에 본 연구는 농가 자가제조 유기농액비의 미생물학적 특성을 구명하여 유기농 액비의 농업적 활용 제고를 위한 표준화를 확립하기 위해 수행하였다. 농가자가 제조 유기농액비는 성환과 제주에서 5점을 수집하여 액비의 화학성과 미생물상을 비교하였다. 액비 제조시 종균으로 사용되고 있는 부엽토를 5지역에서 채취하여 세균군집의 차이를 보기위해 denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE)를 수행하여 분석하였다. 주요 결과를 요약하면 수집된 액비의 화학성 분석결과, pH는 3.3~4.3로 강한 산성을 나타났으며 EC는 $32.8dS{\cdot}m^{-1}{\sim}552.33dS{\cdot}m^{-1}$ 이었다. 수집된 액비내 미생물상을 조사한 결과, 세균과 방선균은 존재하였지만 사상균은 검출되지 않았다 또한 성환에서 수집된 액비로부터 세균을 분리하여 16S rRNA 염기서열을 분석한 결과, 대부분 Bacillus속으로 95%이상의 높은 유사성을 갖는 것으로 나타났다. 액비 발효 시 종균으로 사용되고 있는 부엽토의 미생물상을 조사한 결과, 지역에 따라 세균은 0.8~$110{\times}10^5cfu{\cdot}g^{-1}$, 방선균은 1.0~$10.9{\times}10^4cfu{\cdot}g^{-1}$, 그리고 사상균은 2.6~$64{\times}10^3cfu{\cdot}g^{-1}$의 균수를 보였다. 부엽토간의 세균군집의 차이를 비교하기 위해 DGGE를 수행한 결과, gel 상에서 다양한 위치의 밴드를 확인할 수 있으며, 부엽토별로 공통적 및 특이적 밴드를 확인할 수 있었다.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Marine Environment & Safety
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• v.27 no.7
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• pp.943-953
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• 2021

The purpose of this study is to investigate sediment recovery after the relocation of fish cage farms, by examining the changes in sediments and the benthic polychaete community. A preliminary survey was carried out in October 2017, before the relocation of the farms, and monthly surveys were conducted from November 2017 to October 2018 after the farms were moved. Subsequently, it was conducted every 2-3 months until October 2020. The survey was carried out at three stations (Farm1-3) at the location of the removed fish farms and at three control stations (Con1-3) without farms. The overall organic carbon content of the farm stations was higher than the control stations, but it gradually decreased after the farm was demolished, and there was no statistically significant difference about one year after the relocation of the farms (p<0.05). In the benthic polychaete community, abiotic community appeared at the farm stations in the summer, and consequently, the community transitioned to a low-diversity region with the predominant species Capitella capitata, which is an indicator of pollution. Until the abiotic period in the summer of the next year, the species diversity increased and the proportion of indicator species decreased, showing a tendency of recovering the benthic polychaete community, and these changes were repeated every year. In this study, the abiotic community appeared every year owing to the topographical characteristics, but as the survey progressed, the period of abiotic occurrence became shorter and the process of community recovery progressed expeditiously. Biological recovery of sediments after the relocation of the fish farms is still in progress, and it is imperative to study recovery trends through continuous monitoring.