This paper describes Philippine farmers’ perception on farm mechanization and land reformation. For a survey, 280 farmers were interviewed. According to the survey, Philippine farmerrespondents seem to recognize the many advantages of using farm machines over manual, even if these are expensive and will certainly displace laborers. Although land reformation is known to only one third of the farmers, they understand it as a way of re-structuring roads and fields, and will ease farm management. Philippine farmers’ awareness of farm mechanization and land reformation appears to be very low and they also have financial problems when they consider to adopt farm mechanization and land reformation. Therefor, it is very essential to raise farmer’s awareness and also provide financial subsidy to farmers who have willingness to adopt mechanization and land reformation. Also introduction of farm land bank system like korean experience is recommended as one of alternatives.

유전자변형생물체(Genetically Modified Organisms, GMOs)는 식량, 환경, 에너지부족 등 인류가 직면하고 있는 각종 문제점을 해결하기 위한 대안으로 그 개발 및 이용이 가속화되고 있다. 특히 몇몇 국내 개발 GM 작물은 안전성평가 단계에있어서 조만간 실용화될 것으로 전망되고 있다. GMO에 대한일반인들의 인식조사 연구는 대부분 소비자를 대상으로 진행되어왔으며 실제 GM 작물이 상업화되었을 때 이를 재배할 경작자에 대한 인식조사 연구는 부족한 실정이다. 본 연구에서는 농업인의 GMO에 대한 인식 파악 및 재배의도를 알아보기위해 설문조사와 표적집단면접(FGI)를 병행하였다. 설문조사는 논산, 김천, 충주, 상주 지역의 농민 747명을 대상으로 실시하였으며, FGI는 농업분야에 종사하고 있는 남녀 농업인 5명을 대상으로 수행하였다. 조사 결과 GM 작물에 대한 인지수준과 지식수준은 각각 85.5%, 65%로 일반인과 크게 다르지않았다. GM 작물에 대한 정보 실태로써 ‘알고 있거나 들어본적이 있는 GM작물 종류’에 대해 ‘수량증진’에 대한 응답이가장 높았으며, ‘병저항성’, ‘해충저항성’ 순으로 조사되었다.GM 작물에 대한 인식은 ‘긍정적’과 ‘부정적’ 응답이 비슷한 분포를 나타냈으나, GMO에 대한 섭취 및 재배 의향은 전반적으로 부정적인 것으로 조사되었다. 특히 GMO의 재배보다는섭취에 더 부정적인 것으로 나타났다. GM 작물 형질에 대한선호도로는 ‘병 저항성’ 형질이 가장 높았으나 ‘맛’, ‘수량’,‘건강개선’ 등의 형질에 대해서도 고른 응답을 보였다.

This study was conducted to suggest ideal management system for organic materials. As the performing method of the study, surveyed results on understanding of related persons (organic farmer 846, organic materials manufacture 70 and Organic materials Auditors 7) with eco-friendly farming were used. And the opinion on unintentional pollution source contained in organic materials was surveyed additionally. The issues pointed out by organic farmers on product of organic materials were high price (60% to total), poor efficacy (16%), disorder on distribution system (13%) and containing chemicals as a pesticide (10%). And notification system for organic materials was accepted in general (positive and so so 76%) while most interviewees preferred (89%) unification of certification system dominantly. As unintentional contamination source, pollution on imported row material was indicated as major reason, and other causes were confirmed as insertion during manufacturing process, agricultural by-products using as product additive et al. Based on these surveyed results, authors suggest bellows as considerable methods for effective improvement of management system on organic material. First, establish new integrated certification system which contains standard of quality certification and notification system on organic material. Second, for evaluation ofefficacy, apply relative evaluation system of significance such as Duncan’s multiple test instead of existing absolute evaluation system. Third, constitute and operate selection of standard comparison subcommittee in organic Agro-materials committee in RDA.

This study was performed to investigate the recognition of Korean farmers for the safety of environment-friendly organic materials (EFOMs). The main purchase line of environment-friendly organic materials was the sustainable agriculture organizations, and decisive basis for the materials purchase was because they thought that agricultural produce cultivated with EFOMs were safe. Currently farmers obtained the most information about EFOMs through farmer’s education operated by agricultural technology center. Sixty nine percent of respondents hoped that they would get the information on the website and through official education opened by of the government or relative institutions. Whereas, only a few respondents hoped that they would get the information from the sellers. Therefore we thought that government and related institutions should operate the education program to give the sellers the scientific and accurate information about EFOMs. In addition, farmers are highly recognized the necessity of safety-related information provided by government and related institutions. Most Farmers thought that safety education for farmers using EFOMs was very important. Also, it was confirmed that farmer respondents thought to need to establish the shelf-life and user guideline and to label about toxic category of EFOMs. The Cronbach’ alpha coefficient calculated in order to verify the reliability of survey questions was 0.699. That value indicates that responses of the respondents in this study might be reliable.