Pub Date : 2020-01-01DOI: 10.36464/JRD.2020.43.1.001
Lee, MoonHo, Kim, Kwansoo
This study provides empirical estimation results concerning the degree of production coupling for the fixed and variable direct payment program designed for stabilizing rice farmers’ income. Based on a set of producer’s expectation formulations, we analyzed the impacts of direct payments on the rice cultivation area, using a panel data estimation technique. To consider the risk preference of farmers, we used an expected utility maximization model under the expected utility hypothesis. Also, we explicitly included a variable capturing truncated variance of rice price related to variable direct payments. Our estimation results indicate that both fixed and variable direct payments tend to have production coupling effects. Specifically, we found that the production coupling effect of variable direct payments was higher than that of fixed direct payments. We also discovered that the rice cultivation area has been affected by these direct payments via the insurance effects (variable direct payments) and wealth effects (fixed direct payments). 차례 1. 서론 2. 선행연구 검토 3. 분석모형 및 자료 4. 분석 결과 5. 요약 및 결론 * 이 연구는 한국농촌경제연구원의 수탁연구 내용 일부를 논문화한 것이며 논문작성에 도움을 주신 김종진 박사님께 감사의 말씀 을 드립니다. ** 경남연구원 연구위원 *** 서울대학교 농경제사회학부 교수, 교신저자. e-mail: kimk@snu.ac.kr
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Pub Date : 2020-01-01DOI: 10.36464/JRD.2020.43.1.004
Jeon Chulhyun, H. Lee, Dong-Hyun Kim
{"title":"An Analysis of Forestry Companies’ Willingness to Pay for Forest-certified Timber","authors":"Jeon Chulhyun, H. Lee, Dong-Hyun Kim","doi":"10.36464/JRD.2020.43.1.004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36464/JRD.2020.43.1.004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45379,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Rural and Community Development","volume":"1 1","pages":"71-86"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90083077","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-01-01DOI: 10.36464/JRD.2020.43.4.001
Ji Yeon-gu, Jinkwon Lee
{"title":"Estimation of Hanwoo Farms’ Willingness to Pay for Livestock Disease Insurance","authors":"Ji Yeon-gu, Jinkwon Lee","doi":"10.36464/JRD.2020.43.4.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36464/JRD.2020.43.4.001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45379,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Rural and Community Development","volume":"36 2 1","pages":"1-23"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80160961","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-01-01DOI: 10.36464/JRD.2020.43.1.002
Byungok Choi, 최선우, 임효빈
{"title":"An Impact Assessment of Weather Changes on Yield and Price for Chinese cabbage and Korean radish","authors":"Byungok Choi, 최선우, 임효빈","doi":"10.36464/JRD.2020.43.1.002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36464/JRD.2020.43.1.002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45379,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Rural and Community Development","volume":"2 1 1","pages":"21-47"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78383067","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-01-01DOI: 10.36464/JRD.2020.43.4.006
Lee Sin Jae
{"title":"Implication of the Korean Agricultural Technology Group Activities during the Vietnam War","authors":"Lee Sin Jae","doi":"10.36464/JRD.2020.43.4.006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36464/JRD.2020.43.4.006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45379,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Rural and Community Development","volume":"11 1","pages":"115-139"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89817614","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Integrated Pest Management techniques (IPM) have been promoted last decade throughout a large Urban and Periurban Horticulture project (UPH) for a sustainable vegetable production in Congolese cities. However, the drivers of adoption of IPM techniques have not been either studied or identified. Data collected between April and June 2016 throughout field survey from 246 vegetable farmers were analyzed using a logistic regression model to determine the factors influencing the adoption of IPM techniques among vegetable farmers. Results showed that there were no significant differences between gender and the willingness to use IPM (p>0.05). However, a high portion of female (46.6%) reported that they would like to test new IPM techniques without any hesitation. Membership to a farmer’s group (Association) and previous agricultural training influenced positively and significantly the IPM adoption (p= 0.000) and increased highly the probability of adopting IPM respectively 4.2 and 7.7 times. Further, results also highlighted that farmers who previously perceived negative effects of pesticides were likely 5.2 times predisposed (p<0.05) to adopt alternative methods of pest control. Findings will allow an increased understanding of the process of IPM adoption and will help provide policy guidance to promote IPM diffusion with a purpose of reducing pesticide issues among farmers.
{"title":"Drivers of Adoption of Integrated Pest Management among Small-scale Vegetable Farmers in Lubumbashi, DR Congo","authors":"Arsene Mushagalusa Balasha","doi":"10.12691/AJRD-7-2-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12691/AJRD-7-2-2","url":null,"abstract":"Integrated Pest Management techniques (IPM) have been promoted last decade throughout a large Urban and Periurban Horticulture project (UPH) for a sustainable vegetable production in Congolese cities. However, the drivers of adoption of IPM techniques have not been either studied or identified. Data collected between April and June 2016 throughout field survey from 246 vegetable farmers were analyzed using a logistic regression model to determine the factors influencing the adoption of IPM techniques among vegetable farmers. Results showed that there were no significant differences between gender and the willingness to use IPM (p>0.05). However, a high portion of female (46.6%) reported that they would like to test new IPM techniques without any hesitation. Membership to a farmer’s group (Association) and previous agricultural training influenced positively and significantly the IPM adoption (p= 0.000) and increased highly the probability of adopting IPM respectively 4.2 and 7.7 times. Further, results also highlighted that farmers who previously perceived negative effects of pesticides were likely 5.2 times predisposed (p<0.05) to adopt alternative methods of pest control. Findings will allow an increased understanding of the process of IPM adoption and will help provide policy guidance to promote IPM diffusion with a purpose of reducing pesticide issues among farmers.","PeriodicalId":45379,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Rural and Community Development","volume":"47 1","pages":"53-59"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2019-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87913907","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The vulnerability of the Philippines to climate change and variability has been highlighted by its exposure to severe weather-related conditions. Farmers are particularly vulnerable to such adverse effects given their limited adaptive capacity. In this regard, this study examines the local adaptation experiences and practices of farmers in a second-class farming municipality. It is then based on the assumption that a lay understanding of how farmers perceive and adapt to climate change can be used to provide implications for enhancing their adaptive capacity. Using a combination of qualitative data from key informant interviews and focus group discussion and secondary data from government agencies, this paper reveals that farmers perceive serious health and livelihood risks despite having limited knowledge of how climate change occurs. They recognize that changes in climate conditions have caused considerable effects to temperature and rainfall which, in turn, have posed serious challenge to water supply. Their farming activities are also at risk from interrelated impacts such as damage to crops, pest infestation, and decrease in rice yield. Hence, they consistently employ common adaptation measures as direct responses to climate variability such as the planting of new crop varieties, use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides, use of technology in farming, and diversification of household income. However, the lack of financial resources hinders them from utilizing new adaptation techniques and technologies, which they perceive to be more appropriate and beneficial. These results suggest a more conscious effort of transforming coping strategies to short-term climate variability into adaptation measures to long-term climate changes. Keywords: climate change; adaptation; farmers; agriculture; Philippines --------------------------------------------------------- Adaptation au changement climatique chez les agriculteurs de Bulacan, aux Philippines Resume La vulnerabilite des Philippines au changement et a la variabilite climatiques a ete mise en evidence par son exposition a des conditions meteorologiques extremes. Les agriculteurs sont particulierement vulnerables a ces effets defavorables, compte tenu de leur capacite d'adaptation limitee. A cet egard, cette etude examine les experiences et les pratiques d'adaptation locales des agriculteurs d'une municipalite agricole de deuxieme classe. Il repose ensuite sur l'hypothese qu'une comprehension non-initiee de la facon dont les agriculteurs percoivent les changements climatiques et s'y adaptent peut etre utilisee pour avoir des consequences sur l'amelioration de leur capacite d'adaptation. A l'aide d'une combinaison de donnees qualitatives issues d'entretiens avec des informateurs cles, de discussions de groupe et de donnees secondaires d'organismes gouvernementaux, le present document revele que les agriculteurs percoivent de graves risques pour leur sante et leurs moyens de subsistanc
菲律宾易受气候变化和多变性的影响，其暴露于与恶劣天气有关的条件下。由于农民的适应能力有限，他们特别容易受到这种不利影响。在这方面，本研究考察了一个二级农业直辖市农民的地方适应经验和做法。然后，它基于这样的假设:对农民如何感知和适应气候变化的外行理解可以用来为提高他们的适应能力提供启示。本文结合了来自关键信息者访谈和焦点小组讨论的定性数据以及来自政府机构的二手数据，揭示了农民尽管对气候变化如何发生的了解有限，但仍感知到严重的健康和生计风险。他们认识到气候条件的变化对温度和降雨造成相当大的影响，进而对供水构成严重挑战。他们的农业活动也受到相关影响的威胁，如作物受损、虫害和水稻减产。因此，他们一贯采用共同的适应措施，如种植新作物品种、使用化肥和农药、在农业中使用技术以及家庭收入多样化等，作为对气候变化的直接反应。然而，缺乏财政资源阻碍了他们利用新的适应技术和技术，他们认为这些技术和技术更适当和有益。这些结果表明，需要更加有意识地将应对短期气候变率的策略转变为适应长期气候变化的措施。关键词:气候变化;适应;农民;农业;菲律宾---------------------------------------------------------适应气候变化与气候变化的关系与气候变化的关系与气候变化的关系与气候变化的关系与气候变化的关系与气候变化的关系与极端气象条件的关系。农民特别容易受到不利影响，完全没有适应能力的限制。另一方面，我们的研究人员研究了“适应农业的经验”和“地方农业的经验”，以及“城市农业的经验”。将“套间”定义为“假设”、“理解”、“非初始化”、“农民感知”、“气候变化”、“适应”、“利用”、“改善”、“适应能力”、“后果”。l 'aide d何谓combinaison数据定性问题d 'entretiens用des informateurs cl, de groupe et de讨论数据secondaires d 'organismes gouvernementaux, le当前文档revele, les agriculteurs percoivent de坟墓个倒他们健康和他们的办法生存,在一个connaissance depit limitee de la方式不le换向机构的避暑se产品。本文结合了农业发展的质量问题，农业发展的质量问题，农业发展的质量问题，农业发展的质量问题，农业发展的质量问题，农业发展的质量问题，农业发展的质量问题，农业发展的质量问题，农业发展的质量问题，农业发展的质量问题，农业发展的质量问题，农业发展的质量问题，农业发展的质量问题，农业发展的质量问题，农业发展的质量问题，农业发展的质量问题，农业发展的质量问题，农业发展的质量问题，农业发展的质量问题，气候变化的质量问题。将对气候条件的变化进行勘测，并对相当大的气温和降水的影响进行勘测，因此，在审批过程中会产生严重的问题。人类的活动、农业活动和社会平等威胁着人类的生存，对相互依赖的物种造成了严重的影响，对文化造成了严重的破坏，对掠夺者造成了严重的侵害，对农业生产造成了严重的减少。因此，利用系统化、措施化、适应化、社区化、响应化、气候变化化、种植化、新文化多样性、技术和农药的利用、农业技术的利用、收入和管理的多样化。除此之外，“资源融资模式”为“新技术的利用者”和“适应技术”提供了“新技术的利用者”、“新技术的利用者”和“新技术的利用者”提供了“新技术”。这些结果表明，不努力加上自觉的转变，将形成适应战略和气候变化战略，并形成长期的适应措施和气候变化措施。气候变化;适应;les agriculteurs;农业;菲律宾
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In developing countries like India disparities among the level of development at the regional level is highly uneven. So its emerge as a new research area for the regional scientists. The main target of the author with this approach to identify the Micro-Physiographical Regions to reduce and eliminate the disparities in Nagaur District of Rajasthan (India). With the help of Micro-Physical Regions, policy makers can easily solve out the problems of regional imbalance. In this research paper, author try to find out the Micro-level planning regions of the concerned area with help of geographical, social and economic factors. The research has been divided into four physiographical regions using the above factors and superimposed technique.
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Jean M. Mondo, Alain B. Irenge, R. Ayagirwe, Paul M. Dontsop-Nguezet, K. Karume, E. Njukwe, S. Mapatano, P. Zamukulu, G. C. Basimine, Eric M. Musungayi, H. K. Mbusa, L. M. Kazamwali, R. Civava, G. Mushagalusa
Cassava plays a major role in households’ food and income security in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Despite multiple efforts to overcome the problem of low productivity in cassava production through the introduction of improved technologies, the level of adoption of such technologies by farmers has remained low in eastern DRC. This study, therefore, aimed at identifying determinants of adoption and farmers' preferences for cassava varieties in Kabare Territory, eastern DRC. A participatory approach was used to collect data on 250 cassava smallholder farmers in five different zones called “groupements” including Cirunga, Kagabi, Bugorhe, Katana, and Mumosho. Results showed that improved cassava varieties are adopted by 28.8% of smallholder farmers. Membership in an agricultural cooperative, access to planting material as a credit, education level, gender, and cropping system had a positive influence on improved varieties’ adoption. In contrary, field-to-house distance, location and total farm size had a negative effect on adoption decision. This study demonstrated that introduced varieties possess most of traditional desirable traits (yield potential, taste, high disease resistance and early maturity) but are lacking local (regional) farmers’ preferences such as leaf production, in-soil storage, bitterness, tuber color which had limited adoption by farmers who continue relying on local landraces (88%) for those traits. Therefore, in addition to addressing negative factors that prevent adoption, specific attention should be given by cassava breeders to local specific preferences if the objective is to increase adoption of improved varieties by farmers in eastern DRC.
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This study examined the economic impact of grain storage structures and storage duration on the income of rural farmers in Kogi State, north-central, Nigeria. The study utilised the questionnaire method, supported by on-site observation and interactions with key players along the grain supply chain. Multistage sampling was used to select three hundred (300) rice and maize farmers spread across fifty (50) communities in the State that participated in the research. The results show that the storage systems and length of storage of the farm produce (maize and rice) has a significant impact on the annual income of the farmers, and only 1 per cent of the grain farmers’ population earned above the 2017 world’s poverty benchmark. We found out that access to technology for agricultural purposes was zero. The major challenges reported by the farmers are; poor processing/storage facilities (43.4 %), poor sales after harvest (30.3 %) and lack of agricultural credits (23.3 %). The existing storage structures encourages post-harvest waste and losses, affecting the quality of stored grains and invariably its market value and farmers’ income; the grain market is erratic with middlemen dictating the price of grains. None of the farmers surveyed had accessed agricultural credit at any time. The study recommends shared or communal storage centres for each of the communities, where farmers can either have their grains sold at Guaranteed Minimum Price or with an option to store the grains in anticipation of better prices in the future. Bank Accounts would be opened for the farmers, and a Grain Card would be issued to help keep and build the farmers’ “Activity Ratings” for economic purpose like credit assessment to determine eligibility for agricultural credit. Private firms should manage the shared or communal centre in each community in a public-private partnership with the government, but the farmers should be shareholders by default. The shared or communal centres should also be a reliable intermediary between the farmers and other key stakeholders, strengthening the rural economic institution, and serving as a training centre for the rural farmers. A theoretical shared or communal storage model was designed.
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