Cheonan Agricultural Center launches "Mobile Shredding Support Team" to reduce illegal incineration and improve rural environment.

Cheonan Agricultural Technology Center (Director Choi Jong-yoon) is operating the "Visiting Agricultural By-products Shredding Support Team" until December to provide support on agricultural sites. This project aims to directly shred agricultural by-products such as leftover soybean stalks and pepper stalks on the site to reduce the inconvenience for farmers and prevent wildfire risks caused by illegal burning. The shredding work is conducted on farms registered in the business registry, excluding weekends, holidays, and Fridays. However, locations where agricultural by-products are not collected in one place, sites where contagious diseases such as fruit tree wilt disease have occurred, and thick branches with a diameter of 2.5 cm or more, such as bamboo, are excluded from the support. The Agricultural Technology Center plans to fundamentally cut off the problem of illegal burning that frequently occurs on agricultural sites through this support team operation, and recycle the ...