3. Basic Terminology

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AFFrinnovation	AFFrinnovation which means initiatives for agriculture, forestry and fisheries operators to voluntarily cooperate with others to comprehensively and integrally promote agriculture, forestry and fisheries as the primary industry, manufacturing as the secondary industry and retailing as the tertiary industry to utilize regional resources for producing new added value.
Agricultural irrigation facilities	These facilities are roughly divided into two types -- irrigation facilities for providing irrigation water for farmlands and sewerage facilities for discharging surplus surface and soil water at farmlands. Irrigation facilities include dams and other water storage facilities, water intake facilities such as weirs, drains, pumping facilities, circular tank diversion works, farm ponds and other water supply and distribution facilities. Sewerage facilities include drainage canals and drainage pump stations. In addition, there are water control facilities to monitor, control and operate irrigation and sewerage facilities.
AI	AI stands for artificial intelligence, referring to computer systems that have human intelligence functions including learning, inference and judgment.
ASEAN	ASEAN stands for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. ASEAN was established in the Thai capital of Bangkok in 1967 for cooperation in addressing the promotion of economic growth, and social and cultural development, the achievement of political and economic stability and other challenges in Southeast Asia. Upon its establishment, it consisted of five countries -- Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand. Brunei acceded to ASEAN in 1984, Vietnam in 1995, Laos and Myanmar in 1997 and Cambodia in 1999. ASEAN now thus comprises 10 countries. Prompted by the 1997 Asian currency crisis, Japan, China, South Korea and ASEAN have formed the ASEAN+3 framework for cooperation in East Asia.
Associated income in rural regions	Associated income in rural regions is calculated for seven growth-promising fields (processing and direct sales, export, exchanges between urban and rural areas, collaboration between medical care, welfare, food and agricultural sectors, local consumption of local products (facility food services, etc.), ICT utilization and distribution, and biomass/renewable energy) for initiatives for agriculture, forestry and fisheries business operators' integration of production, processing and sales using rural resources and their collaboration with secondary and tertiary industries (including food, medical care and welfare, and tourism).
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BCP	BCP stands for business continuity plan, meaning a plan to secure the continuation of key operations even in the event of risks such as disasters. It is also a peacetime plan to strategically prepare for restoring key operations within a target time and minimizing risks even if business operations are suspended.
Big data	Big data refers to huge data collected in real-time from location information, action history, etc. through the internet, etc. In recent years, technologies have been developed to analyze big data faster and more easily, indicating that big data is expected to be used for gaining knowledge useful for business and society and producing new mechanisms and systems. Open data held by the government sector and public organizations are part of big data.
Biomass	Biomass means organic resources of flora and fauna origin, excluding fossil resources. Biomass is made by organisms that create organic matter from inorganic water and CO2 through photosynthesis using solar energy falling on the earth. This type of resources is renewable throughout its life cycle as long as there are organisms and solar energy.
Business plan approved under the AFFrinnovation Act	These business plans are for agriculture, forestry and fishery business operators to integrate the production of agriculture, forestry and fisheries products and by-products (including biomass) with their processing or sales to improve their operations under the Act on Promotion of the "Sixth Industry" to Create New Value Added Using Agricultural Products in Rural Areas (AFFrinnovation Act).