Research Areas

1.Environmental Change
Improve fruit and vegetable long term storage and against extreme climate, warming, drought, heavy rain, cold…etc.
2.Issue to Solve
Introduce innovative radiation technology to solve problems of agricultural production, preservation of fruits, as well as vegetables and food safety.
3.Strategy
Construct "Innovation & Development Center of Sustainable Agriculture, (IDCSA)" and integrate advanced technology/ facility.

Organization chart of IDCSA

1. Circular Agriculture

Circular   Agriculture
領域召集人:楊秋忠 (Young, Chiu-Chung)

As the global agriculture surplus materials and wastes are enormous, recycling and valorization has great potentials for soil carbon sequestration through application of innovative biotechnologies to develop soil carbon sequestration and carbon cycle technology, conversion of organic matter fertilizer products and biostimulants and other value-added products via zero-carbon emission routes to improve soil carbon sequestration and crop carbon sequestration.

 

2. Facility Agriculture

Facility Agriculture
領域召集人:林俊良 (Lin, Chun-Liang)

Advanced facilities would be developed to improve crop yield and quality through sensing and AI, and introduce information technology to build a management and decision-making collaboration model. Agricultural green energy, energy storage, smart grid, self-generated biosensing technology would be also developed to achieve energy conservation and carbon reduction, growth environment control and sustainable production in agriculture and animal husbandry.

3. Ecological Agriculture

Ecological Agriculture
領域召集人:陳樹群 (Chen, Su-Chin)

As soils, wetlands and forests are the main areas of carbon sinks and are the most vulnerable to climate change,  slope landscape, forest ecology, wetland environment and rural social fields would be integrated to overcome the current difficulties of agricultural development and ecological conservation strategy conflicts and ecological conservation difficulties caused by overdevelopment, and develop strategies and methods of ecological restoration, friendly agriculture and healthy rural areas with natural solutions based on the United Nations SDG15.

4. Technological Agriculture

Technological Agriculture
領域召集人:楊明德 (Yang, Ming-Der)

Innovative technology would be developed to improve the carbon emission reduction and carbon sink increase in the crop production process, establish a management model for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and ensure food security with novel biological pest control and resilient materials. Multi-source remote sensing imaging would be employed to provide information on soil carbon sinks, production, crop spatial distribution and greenhouse gas emissions from air, ground and underground fields, and construct Soil Organic Carbon Sequestration Potential (SOCSP) data for Taiwan's soil carbon sink value, total and carbon trading market, supplemented by climate change-related laws and regulations in the process of human development.