Taiwan's Council of Agriculture (COA) said Thursday it will subsidize half of the quarantine costs for new migrant workers in the agricultural sector, as part of an effort to boost slow recruitment during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Chen Chun-yen (陳俊言), head of the COA's Department of Farmers'...
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The COVID-19 pandemic has strongly affected economic activities in agriculture and food sectors, especially challenging the normal operation of the global agricultural value chains. Travel restrictions and social...
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With enormous corporate demand for renewable energy and regulation changes under President Tsai Ing-wen’s (蔡英文) administration, industry insiders say the market for corporate power purchase agreements (CPPAs) in Taiwan is primed for growth.
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC, 台積電) in...
2020.10.15
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The nation's top agricultural official has warned about Chinese online scammers hawking agricultural products claimed to have been produced in Taiwan.
Council of Agriculture Minister Chen Chi-chung (陳吉仲) took to Facebook on Tuesday (Sept. 29) to raise the alarm about Chinese fraudsters found...
2020.10.15
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South Korea's exports of agricultural products rose 6.5 percent on-year in the January-September period, data showed Tuesday, on the back of strong overseas demand for kimchi and other traditional fermented products.
Outbound shipments of agricultural goods reached $5.51 billion over the first...
2020.10.15
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Malaysian companies should explore emerging markets such as Ukraine in finding new buyers, International Trade and Industry (MITI) deputy minister Datuk Lim Ban Hong said in his speech at a webinar titled Malaysia-Ukraine: New Markets New Opportunities (Post COVID-19).
He emphasised that market...
2020.10.15
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Japan plans to set up a new bureau next year in an effort to significantly increase the country's exports of agricultural products, according to farm minister Kotaro Nogami.
With the launch of what is tentatively called the Export and International Bureau at the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry...
2020.09.10
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South Korea said Monday it has completed negotiations with Vietnam to ship paprika, a type of bell pepper, to the Southeast Asian country.
Seoul had been negotiating with Hanoi since 2008 on export terms for paprika, whose outbound shipments currently depend heavily on neighboring Japan,...