The Development of Food Varieties for Food Safety in Taiwan

I Han, Min-Hsien Yang
Source: Council of Agriculture (COA) The Rice is the major staple food in Taiwan. Around 1.31 million metric tons of rice are produced per year, enough to sufficiently supply domestic food consumption. Taiwan’s Council of Agriculture (COA) regularly buys the public grains from rice farmers...
Country: Taiwan Topic: Food security and safety
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Korean Policy Responses for Ensuring Food Security in the time of Climate Change

Chang-Gil Kim, Jeong-bin Im
INTRODUCTION Climate change is caused by global warming. It refers to the average increase in global temperature, and has become a megatrend that will lead to significant changes in future society. The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) offers up substantial scientific evidence...
Country: Korea Topic: Food security and safety
8,712
187

Introduction of Technology on Verification of Oolong Tea’s Product Origin

I Han, Min-Hsien Yang
Source: Council of Agriculture (COA) The main Taiwanese high-mountain oolong teas are made from the varieties of Taiwan No.12 (Jinxuan, or Golden Daylily) and Green-Tip Oolong. On the other hand, there are similar varieties, machines, and tea-manufacturing technology of Taiwanese oolong tea that...
Country: Taiwan Topic: Trade liberalization and countermeasures
4,977
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Pork Tracking and Timely Sourcing System Activated by Council of Agriculture

Min-Hsien Yang
Source: Council of Agriculture (COA) Because of the rising concerns on food sources and safety, consumers start to look more carefully about the meat farms, feeding environment, hygiene, and meat quality. On the other hand, the aggressive participation of regional free trade agreement, like TPP,...
Country: Taiwan Topic: Food security and safety
13,620
134

Agricultural Budgeting System in Korea

Byoung-Hoon Lee
INTRODUCTION Government budgets are divided into subsidies and loans in terms of project support schemes. In addition, they are also divided into central government and local government budgets, each of which has general and special accounting. The special account is a budget scheme that does...
Country: Korea Topic: Agricultural finance
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