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Kim, Cho, and Kim: Satisfaction and Recognition Level of Environment-Friendly Agricultural Products in Cheongju Area
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Korean Journal of Community Nutrition

Korean Journal of Community Nutrition 2011; 16(1): 75-85.

Published online: 28 February 2011

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5720/kjcn.2011.16.1.75

Satisfaction and Recognition Level of Environment-Friendly Agricultural Products in Cheongju Area

Na-Ra Kim, Young-Sun Cho1, Seong-Ai Kim1

Nutrition Education, Graduate School of Education, Chungnam National University, Daejeon, Korea.

1Department of Food and Nutrition, Chungnam National University, Daejeon, Korea.

Corresponding author: Seong-Ai Kim, Department of Food & Nutrition, Chungnam National University, 220 Gung-dong, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 305-764, Korea. Tel: (042) 821-6836, Fax: (042) 821-8887, sakim@cnu.ac.kr

Received 30 November 2010       Revised 20 January 2011       Accepted 9 February 2011

Copyright © 2011 The Korean Society of Community Nutrition

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to investigate basic data on the degree of parents' recognition and satisfaction with the use of environment-friendly agricultural products. The conclusions of this study are as follows. The survey on the use of environment-friendly products in households showed that 68.7% of the respondents used environment-friendly products at home. The frequency of purchasing organic products by household consumers showed that 25.1% of the respondents bought organic products one to two times per week. The most popular items of the environment-friendly agricultural products used were vegetables, comprising 63.9%. The households with more than 3,000,000 won of monthly income tended to consume more domestic livestock products (p < 0.05). In comparison to general agricultural products, environment-friendly agricultural products users showed higher satisfaction level with a better quality in term of safety, quality, nutrition, taste, appearance, diversity and price. The degree of satisfaction with safety was the highest (3.8 ± 0.68), and price showed the lowest (2.76 ± 0.79). The degree of parents' recognition of the governmental support for environment-friendly agricultural products showed that those who were aware of the supporting policy were 44.5%, but 55.5% of them didn't know about the fact that 46.6% of the respondents agreed that environment-friendly agricultural products should be used in more than 50% of the foods used for school food service. The respondents pointed out that vegetables (45%) sprayed with pesticide are the most urgent food item that need to be replaced by environment-friendly farm products.

Keywords: environment-friendly agricultural products, satisfaction and recognition, school food service

Figures and Tables

Table 1
General characteristics of the subjects
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Table 2
The present status of using environment-friendly agricultural products in house
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1) N (%), *: p < 0.05, **: p < 0.01, ***: p < 0.001

Table 3
Frequency of purchasing environment-friendly agricultural products in house
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1) N (%), *: p < 0.05

Table 4
Kinds of frequently purchasing environment-friendly agricultural products
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1) N (%), *: p < 0.05

Table 5
Satisfaction of environment-friendly agricultural products
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1) Mean ± SD, *: p < 0.05, **: p < 0.01, ***: p < 0.001

2) The alphabets mean the significant differences by Duncan's multiple range comparison : a < b < c < d

Table 6
Recognition level of supporting business for environment-friendly agricultural products
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1) N (%), *: p < 0.05

Table 7
The percentage of using environment-friendly agricultural products in school foodservice
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1) N (%), *: p < 0.05

Table 8
Food urgently needed to be replaced with environment-friendly agricultural products in school foodservice
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1) N (%), *: p < 0.05

Table 9
The degree of additional meal expenses beneficiaries should pay
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1) N (%), *: p < 0.05

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