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Do Not Burn Agricultural By-products—Shred Them Instead!

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Busan Metropolitan City Agricultural Technology Center (hereinafter referred to as “the Center”) announced that, ahead of the full-scale spring farming season, it will provide free shredding of agricultural by-products to prevent fine dust and forest fires and to reduce pest outbreaks.

This initiative is being implemented as part of the 2026 Agricultural By-product Safe Treatment Support Program, linked to the Seasonal Fine Dust Management System. Its purpose is to prevent fine dust and forest fires and minimize pest outbreaks by prohibiting the burning of rice paddy banks, field banks, and agricultural by-products within farmland.

The project period runs from January 26 to October 19 this year.

To enhance work efficiency, the Center will operate an Agricultural By-product Shredding Support Team. Beginning with priority areas, the team will visit applicant farms directly. This year, the program is expected to support 65 hectares of farmland, an increase of approximately 10 percent from last year’s 59 hectares.

Priority areas for shredding support are, in order: land within 100 meters of forest-adjacent areas, elderly farmers, farmers with disabilities, women farmers, small-scale farms, and general farms.

The target materials for shredding include agricultural by-products from field crops and fruit trees. Alongside shredding operations, education and promotional campaigns to prevent illegal burning will also be carried out.

Meanwhile, shredding agricultural by-products and returning them to the soil is known to improve soil fertility while delivering significant benefits in preventing spring forest fires and reducing fine dust.

Farmers wishing to receive shredding support may apply to the Agricultural Technology Center’s Technical Agriculture Team at 051-970-3722.

Yu Mi-bok, Director of the Busan Metropolitan City Agricultural Technology Center, stated that the agricultural by-product shredding support program helps prevent illegal burning in farmland and minimize fine dust generation, adding that the Center plans to actively promote the program to farmers to help create a cleaner rural environment.