"Vegetable waste, reborn as feed"...Focus on the Resourceization of Agricultural By-products

[Anchor]
Some places take the lead in resource upcycling, such as reducing waste disposal costs by making livestock feed from agricultural by-products generated in the market.

It's about Ansan Agricultural and Marine Products Wholesale Market.

Reporter Choi Myung-shin introduces it.

[Reporter]
It is a wholesale market for agricultural and fishery products that Ansan citizens enjoy.

Due to the large market size, agricultural by-products such as cabbage leaves and onion skins are also not easy to discharge.

Last year, 585 tons of garbage was generated, and an average of 1.6 tons per day.

The processing cost alone was 76 million won.

The forklift puts cabbage leaves collected from the market into the shredder.

After two iterations of the grinding and moisture removal process, it will be reborn as feed after 12 hours.

You can feed it directly to livestock, or you can ferment it for about two more days to make it into fiber fermented feed.

It is a system that upcycles agricultural by-products as feed, and it is the first time in the country to be introduced into the agricultural wholesale market.

[Kim Yu-soo / CEO of Ansan Agricultural and Marine Products Wholesale Market: We started it because we wanted to reduce the cost of emissions and recycle them, but when we started it, it was unexpectedly judged to be suitable for animal feed, so it's being implemented well]

Feed made here is supplied to livestock farms in Gyeonggi-do for free.

[Oh Jong-hyuk / Goat Farm CEO: I'm satisfied and fed him because he doesn't have any symptoms even after eating. In terms of cost, it has been reduced more than before, so we plan to continue feeding it and are satisfied.]

This resource conversion project is expected to replace feed of about 30 million won per year.

It is also expected to help solve the odor problem, which is a frequent complaint in summer in the wholesale market.

Agricultural authorities believe that the introduction of agricultural by-products resource projects in 600 agricultural wholesale markets nationwide will have tens of billions of won in economic effects.

I'm YTN's Choi Myung Shin.