Page 69 - 2018 Annual Report Council of Agriculture, Executive Yuan

Annual Report 2018 Council of Agriculture, Executive Yuan farmers to adopt response measures for crops threatened with disaster, including pre-disaster measures, mid-disaster measures, and post-disaster measures. At the same time the COA also developed an APP for mobile devices, which provides early warnings for common disasters and uses red, yellow, and green colored symbols to remind farmers to keep track of real-time disaster information. (7) Developing circular agriculture In response to the worldwide trends toward the agricultural circular economy, environmental protection, and eco-friendly development, in 2018 the development of circular agriculture mainly focused on operating models for rural circular economy work groups, an inventory of environmental issues currently waiting to be resolved, the founding of a promotional committee to review and re-assess ancillary plans, and the four-year (2017-2020) policy-oriented technology plan being implemented by all of Taiwan’s District Agricultural Research and Extension Stations in 2018 (which is entitled “Industry innovation for agricultural resource circularity and green energy co-construction”). These measures are aimed at creating new industries for sustainable agricultural resource circularity and reuse, in order to achieve the goal of sustainable use of resources. The scientic highlights are as follows: A. In order to reduce plastic use, the COA researched and developed plastic-substitute products including paper-pulp plug trays made from reused husks, biodegradable egg boxes, and 3D printing laments. In addition, we constructed two demonstration areas for the promotion of paper plug trays. The application of onsite surveys for farm crops. 67