The NPUST International Service Center for Irrigation R&D and its Taiwan Sustainability Hub shared the university’s latest achievements in the Sustainable Development & Net Zero Innovation Pavilion of the Kaohsiung Smart City & IoT Exhibition from March 30th to April 1st, 2023. The team from NPUST was represented by university vice-president, Chao-Lin Tuan, during the opening ceremony of the event while the International Service Center for Irrigation R&D was headed up by distinguished research fellow, Yu-min Wang, who exhibited their “Innovative and Sustainable Intensive Rice Cultivation and Precision Irrigation Farming Production Method”, “Sustainable and Innovative Organic Fertilizer and Probiotics Carbon Storage Farming Method”, and “Sustainable Carbon Reduction and Innovative Intelligent ICT Rice Precision Production Farming Method”—topics which are closely connected to issues capturing world-wide attention.

Global Warming anomalies and fears that a 1.5°C increase in global temperatures may impact food production or cause species extinction, has incited a major response. National Pingtung University of Science and Technology (NPUST), which is known for excellence agricultural science and technology is actively cooperating with the Taiwan Sustainability Hub (TSH) in order to promote sustainability goals. On February 14th, at the NPUST Big Data Center, a plaque unveiling for the “TSH@NPUST 1.5 Degree Food and Consumption Transformation Sustainability Hub” was held together with a “Vision Forum”. The forum put into focus the nexus between water resources and food (WF Nexus), as researchers discussed new models of carbon reduction and regenerative agricultural production, as well as issues related to green consumption. The overall goal will be to conduct a series of forums which will help reshape food production and consumption systems and keep them in balance with the ecosystem. For the plaque unveiling ceremony, which was hosted by Deputy Minister Minn-Tsong Lin of the National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) and NPUST President Chin-Lung Chang, a number of related VIPs, including NSTC Department of Natural Sciences and Sustainable Development Director Meng-Fan Luo, NSTC Department of Life Sciences Director Yang Tai-horng, Taiwan Sustainability Hub convener Hsing-Sheng Tai, and head of the NPUST Sustainability Hub, Herlin Chien, were invited to jointly do the honors.