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COUNTRY REPORT
ESCAP/APCAEM 2nd. Session of The Technical Advisory Committee
atBeijing, China
24~25 November 2003
Cho Yeoung - Kil Ph.DDirector - General
National Agricultural Mechanization Research Institute Rural Development Administration, Suwon 441-100
Republic of Korea
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Contents○ Situation agriculture
○Agricultural mechanization plan
○ Support policy of agricultural machinery
○ Patrolling repair service for agricultural machinery
○ Safety accident and injury insurance system
○ Training of agricultural machinery
○ Research and development of agricultural machinery
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□ Situation of Agriculture
○ Agricultural sector in national economy
Items 2001199019801970
- Population (1,000person)Total 47,34342,86938,12432,241
Agriculture sector 3,933(8.3%)
6,661(15.5%)
10,827(28.4%)
14,422(44.7%)
- Employment (1,000person)Total 21,36218,08513,6879,167
Agricultural sector 2,105(9.9%)
3,237(17.9%)
4,654(34.0%)
4,846(52.9%)
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○ GDP (Billion won)Total 545,013178,26236,8572,771
Agricultural sector 24,127(4.4%)
15,592(8.7%)
5,612(15.2%)
645(22.3%)
Items 2001199019801970
Source : MAF Statistical yearbook 2002
○ Land utilization
Total Paddy field Upland Forest Others
9,940, 790 1,157,306 752,775 6,436,304 1,594,405
(100%) (11.6%) (7.6%) (64.7%) (16.1%)
unit : ha
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○ Monthly average temperature
Jan. Feb. Mar. Apr. May. Jun. Jul. Aug. Sep. Oct. Nov. Dec.
0.7 4.3 7.8 14.8 18.1 20.2 24.3 25.3 22.4 17.2 9.0 4.2
Yearly average : 14.1 ℃
unit : ℃
○ Monthly precipitation
Jan. Feb. Mar. Apr. May. Jun. Jul. Aug. Sep. Oct. Nov. Dec.
39.5 45.1 61.9 103.6 100.3 155.5 256.5 230.4 159.1 63.4 58.9 31.0
Yearly total precipitation : 1,305 mm
unit : mm
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○ Ownership of major agricultural machinery
Power tiller
Tractor
Rice transplanter
Combine harvester
Power sprayer
Power cultivator
Water pump
Grain dryer
Reaper binder
11,884
614
-
-
45,000
-
54,078
-
-
289,779
2,664
11,061
1,121
330,663
-
193,943
1,616
13,652
751,236
41,203
138,405
43,594
680,034
50,699
341,548
17,749
55,575
922,707
201,089
342,648
87,805
612,713
379,922
325,282
58,213
70,333
1970 1980 1990 2001Year
unit : ea.
Items
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Agricultural Mechanization PlanDirection
○Low cost production of crops
- Supporting economic agricultural machinery
- Energy saving and high efficiency
○ Improvement of post-harvest technology
- Low temperature storage and packaging
○ Sustaining environment friendly farming system
- Precision farming equipment
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Low cost, environment friendly farm mechanization
(1) Supporting the economic, energy saving, environment
friendly agricultural machinery
○ Proper agricultural machinery input plan
○ Supply low cost economic machinery
○ Environment friendly agriculture
(2) R & D for up-land crop cultivation machinery
○ Focus to promising crop
○ Commercialization of new technology agricultural machinery
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(3) Efficient use of agricultural machinery
○ Cooperative use of agricultural machinery
○ Supporting second-hand agricultural machinery
○ Education of O.R.M. for agricultural machinery
(4) Repair & maintenance of agricultural machinery
○ Enhance the service capability of repair & maintenance
○ Extending computerized parts management
○ Standardization and exchangeability of parts
○ Operator’s enhancing R & M capability
○ Reduce the safety accident of agricultural machinery
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○ Supporting agricultural machinery procurement cost (2002)
Total Gov’nt PAC Farmers
98,395 ea. 100% 20% 50% 30%
No of machineryLoan for machinery cost
- Applicants : farmer, Farming Corporation, Primary Agricultural Cooperatives, Agricultural Company, etc.- Interest rate : 4.0 %/year-Duration : 1 year deferment and repayment of 4 ~ 7 years-Range of loan. New technology machinery : 90 %
. For up-land crop, livestock equipment : 80 %
. Power tiller : 50%
. Others : 70 %
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○ Type of agricultural machinery supported by bank loan
Item 1998 2000 2001 2002
Type of machine 134 174 177 185
Models 1,554 2,221 2,489 2,784
○ Tax free fuel system- Type of machinery supported : 38 types
○ Agricultural machinery fuel consumptionItems Gasoline Kerosene Diesel Total
Nation total 62.7 61.7 132.2 256.6
Agri. Machinery 0.7 2.4 3.6 6.7
Unit : million barrel
* the total tax free agricultural fuel is less than 3 %
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○ Nullification of tax for agricultural machinery buyer- Type of machinery : 48 kinds agricultural machinery involved
in crop production and post-harvest, animal husbandry, forestry
and fishery
- Agri. machinery buyer : farmers and fisher man involved in agriculture,
forestry and fishery
○ Repair & maintenance of agricultural machinery
- Stock agricultural machine parts
- Computer network management
- Supporting loan for repair equipment
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○ No. of R & M service shops in 2001
Item No. of shops
- provincial shops 48
- Regency shops 1,127
- PAC centers 733
- District shops 1,305
Total 3,213
* PAC : Primary agricultural cooperative
○ Supporting of service center by loan- Procurement of spare parts
- Procurement of repair equipment
- Loan rate : 4 % /year
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□ Building of farm machinery warehouse○ Prevention of machinery break down○ Increasing the life-span○ Type of ware house : village use , service shops○ Government’s support
- Government’s loan : 70 %- Cash by farmers / shop owner : 30 %- Interest rate : 5 %/year
○ Site of warehouse- Village use : ~ 330m2
- Service shop use : ~ 660m2
- Individual farmers : ~ 100m2
○ No. of warehouse supported(houses)
~ 96 ‘98 2000 2002
2,546 2,578 184 207
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□ Extending second-hand agricultural machinery
○ Purpose
- Reduce the farmer’s burden for agri. machinery purchasing cost
○ Supporting condition
- Second-hand machinery shops
- Government subsidy 50 % , shop owner’s cash 50 %
○ Supported shop in the 2002 : 8 shops
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□ Patrolling repair service○ Purpose
- Repair broken down machinery before busy farming season
○ Patrolling service
- Time : spring (March - April)
Autumn ( August - September)
- Type of machinery : all agricultural machinery
○ Organizing system
- Korea Agricultural Machinery Industry Cooperative :
Agricultural machinery dealers and repair shops
- Province and Regency office : extension workers
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□ Agricultural machinery safety accident○ No. of safety accident by agri. machineryItems ‘92(A) ‘98(B) Ratio(B/A)
(no. accident/100ea) (no. accident/100ea) (%)Power tiller 8.67 3.32 38.3
Tractor 6.67 3.25 48.7
Combine 6.32 3.11 49.1
* NAMRI survey 1998
○ Safety accident by power tiller (persons)
Year no. of accidents dead persons Injured persons
1999 448 51 566
2000 342 58 364
2001 306 34 384* Provincial police station reference
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□ Life insurance system for agri. machinery accident
○ Types- Farm operations injury insurance- Agricultural machinery accident insurance
○ Insurance contracting institution- Agricultural cooperative / insurance company
○ Agricultural machinery accident insurance
Years Contract person Accident occurred Ratio(A) (B) (B/A) (%)
1999 22,638 736 3.3
2000 27,882 758 4.5
2001 12,497 721 5.8
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□ Training of agricultural machinery
○ Training equipment (2001)
Item Total Central Province Regency
Training center 167 1 9 157
Machinery total 4,577 146 742 3,669
Tractor 425 12 99 314
R. transplanter 530 10 102 418
Combine 368 8 84 276
Others 3,234 116 457 2,661
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○ Agricultural machinery trainees
Years Total Technician Rural women End-user
1998 214.4 3.6 5.2 205.6
1999 217.8 2.6 5.6 209.6
2000 194.6 2.7 3.4 188.5
2001 202.6 2.8 3.1 196.7
Unit : 1,000 person
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Tractor mounted sweet potato harvester□ Structure
□ Characteristic
○ Tractor mounted one-row digger
○ Digging separation of soil, convey,
and discharge
○ Harvesting loss 2%, damaged rate 2%
(manual 17%)
○Work efficiency:0.9hr/10a
(manual:20.9hr/10a)
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Sesame thresher□ Structure
탈곡부
정선부
탈곡부
정선부 □ Characteristic
○ Tractor mounted mobile type
○ Feeding by bundle, threshing rate 98%
○Work efficiency 0.5hr/10a
(manual : 4.8hr/10a)
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Power sprayer hose automaticwinding device
□ Structure
□ Characteristic
○ Remote control system
○ Power source : DC 12V
or AC 220V
○Maximum control distance 200m
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Vehicle disinfecting automatic sprayer for livestock farms
□ Structure
□ Characteristic○ Boom spraying width and height
controlled
○ Even spraying solution in bottom
and side of vehicle
- Solution covering rate : 75~95%
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Carrot seed planter
□ Structure□ Characteristic○Walking 4-rows planter
○ Furrowing - planting - soil covering -
pressing operation
○Women can operating machine
- Mounted 2.2ps gasoline engine
○Work efficiency : 0.37hr/10a
(3 times higher than manual)
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Spinach harvester□ Structure
□ Characteristic
○Walking type
○ Vibration digging - separation of soil
- collection of spinach
○ Damaged rate : less than 1%
○Work efficiency : 3.8hr/10a
(manual : 112hr/10a)
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Spinach roots cutting machine
□ Structure
□ Characteristic
○ Roots cutting and removal old leaves
○ Bottom leaves removal rate 88%
○Work efficiency : 3hr/10a
(manual : 11 hours)
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Membrane filtering hydrophonic cultural solution renewable system
□ Structure
□ Characteristic
○Membrane exchangeable type, pressure
and flow rate adjustable
○ Hot water cleaning system can extending
life span of membrane
○ Exchange rate : 3,000 liter/10a
(for solid type bed)
○ Germ removal rate : 99.4%
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Basic technology for precision farming< Monitoring of rice yield and moisture content >
○ Rice yield monitoring accuracy improved up to 90%
- GPS and rice yield signal simulation storing and control system
○ Detected information storage and mapping program
○ Development of neural-net study program
○ Field plant covering rate and chlorophyllanalysis program- Crop growth modeling&simulation
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Portable water melon qualityevaluation system
□ Structure
□ Characteristic
○Evaluation of fruit maturity, vacuum fruit, etc.
○Utilized at water melon field, fruit collecting
market, super-market
○Quality evaluation accuracy : 83~87%
(human sense : 75%)
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Partial tillage - cum - rice transplanter
□ Structure
□ Characteristic
○ Riding 6-row : partial tillage-transplanting
- herbicide application
○ Tillage method : 6 cm in width and depth
○Work efficiency : 5.5 hr/ha
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Far infrared ray grain drier□ Structure
□ Characteristic
○ Far infrared ray and heated air hybrid drier
○More higher than 90% of infrared ray emission
body use
○ Utilization : rice, barley etc.열풍실
(곡물)
템퍼링실
배출구
승강기
원적외선
방 사 체 제어반
원 적 외 선
곡물건조기
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Potato cleaning system
□ Structure□ Characteristic
○ Conveying potato - 1st. cleaning -
2nd. cleaning - drying - outlet
○ No. damaged potato and good looking
: darkness degree 15 ppm
(manual 21ppm)
○Work efficiency : 0.4hr/ton
(manual : 12.5hr/ton)
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Washed clean rice processing system
□ Structure
□ Characteristic
○ Polishing and air washing - water spray cleaning
○ Utilized minimum spray cleaningwater
○ Easy cooking and reduced rice washing water
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Green paper sorting system
□ Structure□ Characteristic
○ Feeding→lining individual
→image analysis → sorting green paper
○ Sorting factor : length and curvature
○ Accuracy : length 81~91%
curvature 94%
○ Operator setting the sorting condition
○Work efficiency : 121 kg/hr
(manual 22 kg/hr)
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Design of fruit packing box for cold chain marketing
3kg 2kg 2kg
Items Oriental melon Grape box Cherry tomato
Type
Perforation rate 4.8 5.4 4.4
Material Double layer paper box
Compression more than 300kgf more than 280kgf more than 220kgfstrength
* For resisting in low temperature with high humidity condition
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Standardization of machine parts for improving interchangeability
□ Journal cross ass’y for PTO shaft for tractor
L
D
2
1
4
L
D
2
1
4
Li
L
D
Lo
2
1
34
Li
L
D
Lo
2
1
34
<Outside ring> <Inside ring>
Nominal size D L Li Lo Snap ring
25-64 I 25 63.4 41.2 44.6 inside ring
28-80 28 80 - - outside ring
32-93 I 32 92 57 61 inside ring
35-106 34.92 106.3 - - outside ring
□Disc clutch of tractor
DoDi DoDi
Nominal size Do Di t104-85-3 140±2 85±1 3160-98-4 160 ±2 97.5 ±1 4
+0.020
0-0.19
0-0.19
+0.028+0.015
+0.025+0.009
+0.0250
Unit : mm
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Agricultural machinery input program□Machine cost &break-even point computation page
○ Type : tractor, rice transplanter, combine, driver
○ Input : machinery, model, field work system
○ Output : coverage area of machine, break-even point, utilization cost
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Energy saving technology for greenhouseheating and cooling
▲ Heat pump for heating and cooling of greenhouse
▲ Automatic rolling device of thermal tunnel curtain
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Wind tunnel lab. for ventilation of agricultural facilities