The study for national greenhouse gas emissions of Poultry, Deer, Domestic goat utilizing low lover local statistical annual report

The purpose of this study is to calculate the greenhouse gas emissions from five livestock included Poultry, Deer and Domestic goat in cities/provinces in Korea. Precedent studies concerning GHG emissions in agriculture in Korea were mostly calculated from livestock and plants in fields respectively. The GHG emissions from livestock were calculated including only enteric fermentation and livestock manure management. For implementation of national policy of GHG reduction, a policy of GHG reduction for livestock sector should be formulated on GHG emissions reflecting operating status of livestock facilities. However, GHG emissions from each type of livestock included the whole process – feed intake, enteric fermentation, farm operations, livestock manure management – are not calculated yet in Korea. In this study, we have secured national statistical resources, materials concerning operation of livestock facilities and emission factors for each type of livestock, and calculated GHG emissions from five livestock – hens, broilers, ducks, deer, domestic goats – including the whole process of operating of livestock facilities in order to construct basic data for a future policy of GHG emissions in livestock sector. We have calculated the GHG emissions from five livestock by using municipal statistics reports, national statistical resources, energy statistics, Korea Feed Association. The result shows there are some provinces of which the GHG emissions much larger than other provinces and those are increasing from 2001~2012.