This study was conducted to analyze the storage and management status of major farm machinery, and to present the basic information for the construction of multipurpose storage housing suitable to the individual farmers by identifying current problems...
This study was conducted to analyze the storage and management status of major farm machinery, and to present the basic information for the construction of multipurpose storage housing suitable to the individual farmers by identifying current problems.
The average farm area of the surveyed farmers was 4.25ha, which represents relatively higher than the average of whole country. The mechanization rate for paddy farming was 98%. so, the individual storage housing should be concentrated on the farm machinery utilized in paddy farming.
The annual operating time for the seasonal farm machinery(such as combine and rice transplanter) were showed high difference between farmers and machines. For the rice transplanter, the highest portion of annual operation time was 1∼10 days as 71%, and for the combine, that was over 20 days as 36% and the second was 16∼20 days as 23%.
The average difference in repairing cost for combine between the farmers with and without common storage housing was 100,000 won.
The percent of storaging farm machinery in the open field for farmers without housing were 44% for power tiller, 16% for farm tractor, 21% for rice transplanter, 10% for combine. Each farmer had the individual temporary simple housing with various kinds and structure.
Most of the farmers, 63.7%, want to use the farm machinery storage housing as multipurpose utilization. Twenty nine percent of farmers want to use the farm machinery storage housing any for storaging purpose. And, most farmers prefer near the farm house as suitable position of housing, and prefer the area of 132∼198㎡ for storage housing. The current problems on common storage housing were insufficient area(44.8%), no problem(29%) improper position, excessive construction cost, inconvenient entrance, etc.