Taiwan faces a major water shortage crisis in 2021. Hydrogel as a commercial soil conditioner has the potential to improve soil propertiesreduce water scarcity in growing plants. This technology discovered that environmentally responsive cellulose-based hydrogels have the potential for use as soil conditionersas controlled release devices in horticultureagriculture. Waterfertilizer soil conditioners can be manufactured based on the ecological recycling process. In the future, technology can develop other carriers that require the controlled release of active ingredients.

By integration of professions including phytopathology, pesticides analysis, aquaticlivestock management, microbial fermentation, epidemiology,artificial intelligence, our interdisciplinary team jointly have developed microbial products for multi-industry applications including crop health care, circular agriculture, livestockaquaculture. The intelligent monitoring modelsmanagement technology for evaluating the efficacy of microbial products are implemented to provide key time pointdecision support for microbial products application,in turns to enhance the application efficacy. The developed microbial agentstechnology would greatly reduce the use of chemical pesticidesantibioticsenhance agricultural output valuemarket competitiveness.