Improvement for farm management and constructing agricultural information system

Performance

1. Research and consulting for improving farm management

• Break-even sales volume for paprika: 35,948 thousand won
• Size of facilities to accomplish the target income of 38million won in greenhouse pepper : green pepper 2,425 pyong, twist pepper 1,530 pyong, pimento 1,440 pyong and paprika 249 pyong(glass grenhouse + nutrient solution)

2. management improvement of tomato cultivation in glass greenhouse with nutriculture

• Reducing the heating cost by changing from one-term crop farming (long-term) to the non-cultivation in winter period and 2 period crop farming (suppression and semi-rapid growing)
• Transplanting period to increase income: October to November
• Selecting economic species: Dutch species, increased 32 %. in production compared with Japanese species

3. Consulting on farming management: 7 times for 1,075 farmers

4. Constructing information exchange system

• Developing homepages for Internet Club for 9 major export crops
• Developing homepages for 3 experiment station(Onion, sweet persimmom and flower)
• Developing homepages for 10 farmers and supporting farmers to manage their homepages
• Opening the mailing club to serve new agricultural information for farmers

5. Consulting intensification and management improvement

• Improving management of export ornamental birds: analyzing management performance and developing diagnosis table
• Income analysis of agricultural products : 51 crops and livestocks
• Making consulting team to improve farming management : 45 persons in 10 fields

6. Cyber consulting through Internet: 25 times per month

7. Computer education for farmers : 1,081 persons

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