Korean J Community Nutr.  2011 Feb;16(1):75-85. 10.5720/kjcn.2011.16.1.75.

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

• Kim NR
• Cho YS
• Kim SA

• KMID: 2263807
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.5720/kjcn.2011.16.1.75

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.

Keyword

environment-friendly agricultural products; satisfaction and recognition; school food service

MeSH Terms

Surveys and Questionnaires
Family Characteristics
Food Services
Humans
Livestock
Vegetables

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