The Water pollution control act and the Water pollution control fee collection regulation was revised and announced on February 4th, 2015 and March 31st, 2015, respectively. Livestock industry will pay for the pollution control fees from 2017 by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Executive Yuan, Taiwan, R.O.C. The model of livestock manure management has been transformed toward to a resource recycling model as organic fertilizers by following international trends. Additionally, Plan for Implementing Liquor and Fiber Digestate as Fertilizer for Farmlands, Chapter 10-1 of Water Pollution Control Measures and Test Reporting Management Regulations was revised and announced on December 24th, 2015. Based on the regulation, liquor and fiber Digestate from anaerobic digestion of animal manure can be applied to farmlands as fertilizers and increase soil fertility. Besides, biogas should be collected from anaerobic digesters. The objective of this project is to assist the government for promoting digestate from anaerobic digested manure wastewater as organic fertilizers and applied to farmlands. This can create a four-way win situation for livestock farming, agriculture farming, agricultural enterprise, and water environment. Visiting livestock farmers, farmer association, local officers, and farming dealers and extending related policies including difficulty of collecting digestate are about 940 documents. There were 16 single-windows in counties and cities, 10 propaganda seminars, and 3 demonstration seminars for digestate farmland application carried out in 2018. Moreover, there were 10 application forms for digestate farmland applications, 22 wastewater management propaganda seminars, and 830 declaration documents for wastewater management completed. Declaration and payment rate of water pollution control fee were up to 97.5% in 2018.

Digestate, Field application, Wastewater management project, Water pollution control fee