Taiwan

The Impact of Agricultural Cooperatives on Agricultural Marketing: Taiwan's Experience

Chen, Cheng-Wei
ABSTRACT   Original agricultural marketing channel is from farmer through middleman shipping to consumers.  The middleman with market information could influence the market. 1981, Taiwan government passed the Agricultural Products Market Transaction Act (2012.11.28) to help...
Country: Taiwan Topic: Agricultural cooperatives and farmers' organizations
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The New Era of Crop Natural Disaster Insurance: The Pilot of Top-grafting Sand Pears

I Han, Min-Hsien Yang
Source: Council of Agriculture http://www.coa.gov.tw/show_news.php?cat=show_news&serial=coa_diamond_20150923185537 　　 The Council of Agriculture (COA) has spent years of planning crop natural disaster insurance in collaboration with domestic non-life insurance corporations in order to...
Country: Taiwan Topic: Agricultural risk management
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The Status and Measures for Industrialization of Agricultural Technology in Taiwan

I Han, Min-Hsien Yang
Traditionally, agricultural production is highly dependent on the natural environment conditions and weather conditions. The progress of agriculture has been mainly contributed by innovative variety-bred, land reform, chemical fertilizers, agricultural machineries, and cultivating management....
Country: Taiwan Topic: Agricultural science policies
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An Active Promotion of Crop Natural Disaster Insurance by Council of Agriculture for Shifting Farmers’ Operation Risks

I Han, Min-Hsien Yang
Source: Council of Agriculture http://www.coa.gov.tw/show_news.php?cat=show_news&serial=coa_diamond_20150811171409   Taiwan’s Council of Agriculture (COA) recently launched a trial of the crop natural disaster insurance specifically for top-grafting sand pears in 2015. The...
Country: Taiwan Topic: Agricultural risk management
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Agricultural Direct Payment Policy in Taiwan

Chen-Te Huang
Current policies related to Direct Payment The Direct Payments in Taiwan are basically complied with the norm in Annex 2 of the Agreement on Agriculture of WTO. The types of direct payment are quite diverse including income direct payment, payments under environment programs, structural...
Country: Taiwan Topic: Overview
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