Taiwan

Taiwan's Active Participation in AARDO Meeting Gains Merits

Mei-Chen Lo, Min-Hsien Yang
Source: Council of Agriculture, Executive Yuan, Taiwan Taiwan’s Council of Agriculture (COA) recently participated in the 18th general convention of the African-Asian Rural Development Organization (AARDO) on April 6 to 9 in Mauritius. After 10 years, Taiwan is once again eligible...
Country: Taiwan Topic: Others
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Japanese Officials Request Restraint over Taiwan Government's Decision on Food Imports

The Interchange Association, Japan’s de facto embassy in Taiwan, has called on the Taiwan government to cancel its plans to tighten regulations on Japanese food imports right after the Executive Yuan recently declared that it will launch the measure on schedule. According to Joseph Yeh of...
Country: Taiwan Topic: Food security and safety
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The Council of Agriculture (COA) Strengthens Ranch Sources Management to Facilitate Egg Hygiene and Safety Control Mechanism

Mei-Chen Lo, Min-Hsien Yang
Regarding health & safety in the labeling of commercial eggs, COA will strengthen management at the source side of livestock farms and coordinate with Health and Welfare Ministry to handle the joint inspection (audit) work in order to ensure health and safe consumption of eggs. This gives...
Country: Taiwan Topic: Food security and safety
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Government Sets Up Agricultural Food Safety Services Zone to Clarify Food Safety Rumors on the Internet

Mei-Chen Lo, Min-Hsien Yang
Source: Council of Agriculture, Executive Yuan, Taiwan It is true that Eating more hormone ripening pineapple could cause sickness, using potions could hasten the ripening of bananas? Tomatoes contain then fatal Solanum nigrum alkaloid, really?  A lot of friends forward these...
Country: Taiwan Topic: Food security and safety
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Policy Analysis of Implementation on "Small Landlord Big Tenant" in Taiwan

I Han, Min-Hsien Yang
I. Background Taiwan is a densely populated country. The total size of its farmland is around 0.8 million hectares. The number of farm households is about 0.78 million, with an averaged 1.03 hectares farmland per household. Compared with those major agricultural production countries, such as the...
Country: Taiwan Topic: Agricultural land policies
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