@article{2647,
author = "Ikhoon Jang and Young Chan Choe",
abstract = "The development of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) has an impact on various industries including agriculture. The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs in Korea promoted the ‘Horticulture ICT convergence project’ for distributing technologies such as smart phone remote control, and an automatic control system in a single shell vinyl house. The smart farm is a small distributed single-span greenhouse and is different from other remote control management models that use a multivariable controller for glass and plastic greenhouses. We compare the performances of tomato, cucumber and strawberry. We investigate twenty-eight farms in Se-Jong city that cultivate tomato, strawberry and cucumber. The research method is a field interview survey. We implemented a t-test for analyzing the performance on the introduction of each items’ smart farm. For strawberry farms, increasing rate of output, income and time saving have significant differences (p0.05). However, for tomato farms, decreasing rate of income per year has significant differences (p0.05). The coincidence of satisfaction and performance can facilitate performance evaluation only through a Likert-type measurement. To guide activation of ICT convergence technology, we have to promote management achievement in productivity and income improvement and management efficiency in time savings to farmers",
issn = "23191473",
journal = "IJAIR",
keywords = "Information and Communications Technology;Smart Farm;Horticulture",
month = "January",
number = "4",
pages = "1-3",
title = "{A}n {E}ffect of {ICT} {T}echnology {A}doption on {S}mall-{S}ized {H}orticulture {F}arms in {K}orea",
volume = "6",
year = "2018",
}