Taiwan

The Domestic Beef Traceability System

Hwang-Jaw Lee
Hwang-Jaw Lee Board Director, Taiwan Flowers Development Association   In order to implement the Domestic Beef Traceability System, the Council of Agriculture (COA) put into effect the compulsory certificate of origin for cattle slaughtering, which regulates the use of standard ear tag,...
Country: Taiwan Topic: Food security and safety
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Taiwan's Small-Scale Farmers Unite for Future Growth and Development

Hwang-Jaw Lee
Hwang-Jaw Lee Board Director, Taiwan Flowers Development Association   The agricultural management style in Taiwan is represented mainly by  small-scale farms.  This makes it difficult to accumulate capital, increase investments, and expand the scale of operations. It is also...
Country: Taiwan Topic: Agricultural cooperatives and farmers' organizations
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Taiwan Agricultural Industry Moves towards Sustainable Development

Hwang-Jaw Lee
Hwang-Jaw Lee Board Director, Taiwan Flowers Development Association   In response to regulations of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and in order to show to the international community the results of Taiwan’s implementing the mitigation of...
Country: Taiwan Topic: Eco-friendly agriculture (satoyama and satoumi)
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Recruiting Young Farmers to Join Small-Scale Farming: A Structural Policy Perspective

Jiun-Hao Wang
Jiun-Hao Wang Associate Professor Department of Bio-industry Communication and Development, National Taiwan University No 1, Roosevelt Rd, Sec 4, Taipei 10617, Taiwan E-mail: wangjh@ntu.edu.tw   ABSTRACT The small-scale agricultural countries encounter severe...
Country: Taiwan Topic: Agricultural human resources development
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One-Stop Service for Young Farmers in Taiwan

Kun-Fong Kuo
Kun-Fong Kuo Farmers’ Service Department, Council of Agriculture Executive Yuan (COA), Taipei, Taiwan E-mail: kkf@mail.coa.gov.tw   ABSTRACT This paper describes the process by which the Council of Agriculture in Taiwan selected 100 young farmers (average age of 33) in 2013...
Country: Taiwan Topic: Agricultural human resources development
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