College students find ways to reduce food waste / 大學生搶救浪費食材 蘆筍"下腳料"再利用　　　　　　　　　　

According to statistics, Taiwan wastes roughly 300 tons of food per day, and a large part of that waste happens between the farm and the grocery store, due to their failure to meet the market standards. In Tainan's Jiangjyun District, where it's famous for asparagus, a group of college student gathered there to find ways to reduce agricultural waste, let's take a look at their result. ==YANG LIN-YING, Asparagus farmer== This will be available to harvest the day after tomorrow. And this one will be ready tomorrow, it'll be over one foot tall Tainan's Jiangjyun District is the first area that successfully grows asparagus in the greenhouse in Taiwan. Farmers here need to begin harvesting at 5:00 every morning and immediately start with grading and packaging. ==YANG LIN-YING, Asparagus farmer== I will cut them from the bottom part, leave about 5.6 inches, and only this part is needed. About one-third of these asparagus go to waste due to their failure to meet retailers' exacting standards. Roughly 100 tons of these asparagus waste are produced here every year, and the local farmer's association has been trying to find ways to reuse and recycle agricultural waste. ==WENG JIA-SHI, Tainan University of Technology student== It's not like those cannot be eaten, and they just go to waste. Since farmers don't have time to manage the waste, they just dump them onto the land as fertilizer, which is kind of unfortunate. A group of students from Tainan University of Technology came to the farm and began their research and interviews during summer vacation. They began by dehydrating the asparagus and turn them into powdered form, and use them to make cookies. They also use the asparagus fiber to make paper crafts. ==WENG JIA-SHI, Tainan University of Technology student== If you use a creative way to rethink about everything, they all have a purpose. These can be used to produce the cultural and creative goods of Jiangjyun district. TRANSLATED BY：STELLA TU ==蘆筍農 楊鄰穎== 這個後天就可以摘了 這支明天就可以採了 明天就超過一呎長了 台南將軍是台灣最先成功以溫室栽種蘆筍的地區，近年來吸引不少青壯年人口返鄉務農。每天清晨五點就要開始採收，還要馬上進行分級包裝。 ==蘆筍農 楊鄰穎== 我要切就是以這個尾巴為標準 我需要的是五吋六 他只用這一截 切起來就切比較多起來 每批蘆筍平均有三分之一不符合市場規格的部分，會被切除丟棄，成為下腳料。整個將軍區每年至少會產生一百噸下腳料，農會也一直想找出能再利用的方法。 ==台南應用科技大學學生 翁嘉禧== 因為其實那些東西不是不能吃 是被浪費掉或者是 比如像 農民無閒暇時間去處理這些東西 只好讓它歸根到土裡 我們覺得這部分是很可惜的 一群台南應用科技大學的學生，利用暑假走入農家，進行調查訪談，把蘆筍乾燥之後磨成粉末，做成手工餅乾，還利用蘆筍纖維做成紙工藝品，希望能讓更多消費者認同減少食物浪費的理念。 ==台南應用科技大學學生 翁嘉禧== 每樣東西 如果你再用創意的方式 然後去思考的話 其實它都會有用途的 他們可以生產出 屬於自己將軍區的特色文創商品 記者 陳添寶 陳寧 台南報導