Resolving the Problem of Seasonal Labor Shortage by Establishing Professional Technical Groups

I Han, Min-Hsien Yang
Source: Council of Agriculture (http://www.coa.gov.tw/ws.php?id=2506373) INTRODUCTION Taiwan and the rest of the world are facing the challenges of labor shortage in agriculture. Low labor participation rate in domestic agricultural sector, the aging society with low fertility rate and the fact...
Country: Taiwan Topic: Agricultural human resources development
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258

Summary of General Office of the State Council Published Opinions on Transferring Agricultural Production Models

Zhen Zhong
Background In recent years, China’s grain output continued to grow, with an increase in farmer’s incomes. Agriculture and rural economy have developed rapidly with great achievement, which provided powerful support for healthy and continuous development of the economy and society....
Country: China Topic: Agriculture
2,272
161

Promoting Big Data for Agricultural and Rural Development in China

Zhen Zhong
INTRODUCTION Big data is a national strategy in building up powerful agri-data, improving governance ability and pushing forward economic transformation and upgrading. In order to implement major decisions and deployment such as Action Framework of Promoting Big Data Development by the State...
Country: China Topic: Agricultural science policies
3,052
145

China’s Pilot Projects of Information Entering Villages and Households

Zhen Zhong
Background According to the deployment and requirement of No.1 document issued by central government on promoting information entering villages and households, in 2014, the Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) has launched pilot projects in 10 provinces (cities) and 22 counties. In 2015, the MOA has...
Country: China Topic: Rural development
1,790
145

Land Use Reclassification and Land Use Conversion in the Philippines: Inter-agency complementations and overlaps

Ruel C. Limbo
INTRODUCTION Reclassification of agricultural land refers to the act of specifying how agricultural lands shall be utilized for non-agricultural uses such as residential, industrial, commercial, as embodied in the land use plan, subject to the requirements and procedure for land use conversion,...
Country: Philippines Topic: Agricultural land policies
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