Page 71 - 2018 Annual Report Council of Agriculture, Executive Yuan

Annual Report 2018 Council of Agriculture, Executive Yuan C. In order to reduce open- air burning of rice straw and improve air quality, the COA planned to set up regional rice straw collection and operations centers, and worked at developing technologies to transform rice straw into animal feed, bio- materials, and energy, thereby increasing its value-added. In addition, in coordination with the ban on burning of agricultural waste (part of the “Air Pollution Control Action Plan” of the Environmental Protection Administration) the COA has organized 61 educational meetings across the country on the subject of “Preserving health through on-site handling The COA successfully developed the “multiple hearth furnace with a continuous feeding system” for production of 100 kilograms of biochar per hour. Cultivation of pasture of rice straw,” to reduce open-air rice-straw burning by farmers and to distribute organic fertilizer containing rice-straw-decomposing bacteria, achieving on-the-spot elimination or circular reuse of rice straw on a total of 5,282 hectares of farmland. Wastewater irrigation A circular economy model for animal husbandry and agriculture Animal feeding The COA's Livestock Research Institute developed a circular economy demonstration zone for animal husbandry and agriculture using wastewater from cattle-raising to irrigate Chinese pennisetum grass to feed goats. 69