Sancheong-gun Registers Patent for Feed Production Using Indigenous Microorganisms

Selection of Two Regional Microorganisms... New Technology Development
Nongjincheong Public Project... Joint Invention with Gyeongsang National University

Field of Corn Forage Crop Production Using Indigenous Microorganisms

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Choi Soon-kyung] The Sancheong-gun Agricultural Technology Center in Gyeongnam has received a patent registration decision from the Korean Intellectual Property Office for an excellent forage production method using indigenous microorganisms developed locally.

According to the Sancheong-gun Agricultural Center on the 10th, this patented technology is a new technique that applies two types of indigenous microorganism utilization technologies to corn silage grown in Sancheong, producing high-quality corn silage.

It is the result of the 2019 Rural Development Administration's new technology demonstration test research support project.

The technology is named "Lactobacillus brevis 5M2 and Lactobacillus buchneri 6M1 for corn silage additives and a method for producing silage using them."

Since May 2019, the county agricultural center has been conducting the project "Development of customized useful microorganism exploration and utilization technology for corn silage" as an industry-academic cooperation project with Gyeongsang National University.

The center and the university isolated and extracted about 20 species of indigenous microorganisms from the Sancheong-gun area and finally selected two microorganisms effective in improving the quality during silage production.

The selected microorganisms are currently stored at the Agricultural Microbial Bank of the National Institute of Agricultural Sciences under the Rural Development Administration.

The county agricultural center expects that this technology will not only improve the utilization efficiency of forage crops but also greatly help increase the income of livestock farmers.

Meanwhile, the main inventors of this patented technology are Agricultural Promotion Division Head Min Hyung-gyu and two others, along with Professor Kim Sam-cheol of Gyeongsang National University and one other.

Division Head Min Hyung-gyu, who carried out the project, has acquired eight intellectual property rights through rural guidance projects, including five invention patents, two trademark registrations, and one design registration, and has now obtained one more invention patent.

A representative of the county agricultural center stated, "These microorganisms have excellent fiber decomposition ability and high digestive efficiency during silage production. They help improve management by reducing feed costs and delay silage spoilage, thereby improving feed quality," adding, "It is expected to also contribute to reducing farmers' labor by decreasing cases where silage quality deteriorates, leading to disposal without use."

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