Taiwan

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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Agricultural Government Scholarships for High-quality Taiwanese Agricultural Talents

I Han, Min-Hsien Yang
The Council of Agriculture (COA) and the Ministry of Education (MOE) are jointly studying ways on how to minimize the gap of academia and industry in the agricultural sector in order to accelerate the cultivation of young agricultural talents operating in Taiwan. Starting from the fall semester in...
Country: Taiwan Topic: Agricultural human resources development
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Application of Digital Survey Tools (Mobile Carrier) to Investigate the Major Crop Production Area

I Han, Min-Hsien Yang
Min-Hsien Yang, Professor, Feng Chia University, Taiwan I Han, Assistant Professor, Feng Chia University, Taiwan   I. Policy purposes   1. Improve artificial visual ways of investigating crop farming area in order to reduce bias caused by human factors on survey findings. 2....
Country: Taiwan Topic: Agriculture
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