Iksan City Launches Dual Management System for Livestock Odor During Heatwave Period

Preemptive Control of Livestock Odor and Strengthening Responsibility Awareness Among Livestock Farmers

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Hong Jaehee] Iksan City, Jeonbuk, is launching a dual management system including a special inspection team and a regular monitoring team to proactively respond to the surge in livestock odor complaints during the heatwave season.

On the 4th, the city announced that it will additionally operate two teams?a special inspection team and an odor collection team?comprising a total of 27 employees, including directors and section chiefs from the Future Agriculture Policy Bureau, to prepare for livestock odor during the heatwave season.

The city will inspect a total of 115 livestock farms, including 100 priority management sites for livestock odor and 15 monitoring farms, during the vulnerable hours from 8 PM to 10 PM until next month.

The inspection team will immediately dispatch to the reported farms upon receiving complaints, instruct odor improvements, and conduct odor collection crackdowns on farms generating high concentrations of odor.

The regular monitoring team, divided into two groups of one person each, will patrol livestock farms in the southern and northern areas continuously until midnight without holidays to ensure thorough odor management. Farms found negligent in management based on inspection results will be subject to immediate administrative measures.

Additionally, to enable farms to measure and improve odors on their own, two portable odor measuring devices will be lent free of charge to farms for 48 hours.

When a farm applies for equipment rental, a staff member visits the farm, installs the device inside the livestock barn, measures ammonia, hydrogen sulfide, and complex odors for 48 hours, and then provides the odor concentration data to the farm.

Based on the data, farms will identify odor occurrence times and activities, voluntarily implement odor reduction measures suited to their circumstances, and be encouraged to take responsibility for improving odors.

Furthermore, the city operates unmanned odor collectors, atmospheric odor reduction devices, portable measuring equipment, and odor map enforcement collection devices, and plans to add automatic odor sample collection devices and produce odor maps in the second half of the year.

Mayor Jeong Heon-yul said, “Livestock odor management requires livestock farms, the odor generators, to take primary responsibility for resolving the issue,” adding, “We hope that livestock farms will measure and improve odor levels themselves in preparation for the heatwave season and transform into a livestock industry that coexists with residents.”

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