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Real-name system for pesticide purchases takes effect on July 1, ensuring peace of mind for agricultural products and safeguarding farmers' benefits
To ensure the food safety of agricultural products, the Council of Agriculture is promoting a real-name system policy for pesticide purchases. On July 1, 2021 (ROC year 110), it announced amended regulations requiring retail pesticide sellers to include the purchaser's ID card number or residence permit number when reporting sales data...
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Pandemic Pushes Traditional Agriculture to Transform, Agricultural E-commerce Sees New Opportunities
As COVID-19 entered community transmission, a level 3 alert was implemented across Taiwan, China, schools suspended classes, companies and businesses switched to remote work, and small farmers everywhere saw their livelihoods hit hard. With people staying at home, various organic produce e-commerce platforms provided services at the right time, with sales growing severalfold; consumers buying directly
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Grape orders plummet by 70 percent, small farmers call for bulk group purchases by companies and communities
Grapes hang heavy on the vines, yet farmers in Dacun, Changhua pick them with great anxiety. After the domestic pandemic alert was raised to Level 3, people's consumption shifted from physical stores to online, causing orders from restaurants and fruit shops to drop; when "Upstream and Downstream" actually asked farmers' associations and farmers in the production areas, it found that grapes in the Dacun area are mostly sold directly by farmers, with a small portion sold on their behalf by the farmers' association. With school closures, staggered work shifts and unstable logistics and delivery conditions, orders have fallen sharply for both the farmers' association and the farmers, with farmers' orders down by more than 70 percent. Last year's warm winter also caused grapes in Nantou to mature early, so the grapes from both areas clashed head-on, which is quite unfavorable for sales.
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Fanling's "Heart & Effort" Organic Farm launches experiences including farm feasts and pizza workshops
Unable to travel abroad under the pandemic, many people have been thinking of heading out into nature to recover the joy of travelling. Earlier I took an organic farm tour, enjoying the greenery and tasting fresh food to the full, with a feeling much like being in Western Australia. What's even better is that right now you can also come to the hotel and enjoy
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Roaming the Bagua Mountain Tea Fragrance Trail and Enjoying a Deep Forest Breath
Focusing on central Taiwan, both Changhua and Nantou have many famous tea plantations, such as the Ruan'an Tea Plantation in Zhushan, Nantou, also known as the Bagua Tea Plantation, because its terrain is oddly curved and shaped like a bamboo hat, making it a famous photography spot. The tea plantations ring around in circles just like the bagua, and if surrounded by mist and clouds
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India ranks first in the world for black tea, yet even Delhi's Tea King is captivated by Taiwan oolong tea
Many people who have been to India often miss Indian milk tea. Generally speaking, so-called Indian milk tea, beyond milk and tea, has a mixed spice blend - masala - plus quite a lot of sugar, so it tastes sweet, fragrant, and full of milk flavor
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Four-Way Development Eco-Tourism: Organic Farm Becomes a Haven for Wildlife Conservation
An organically certified eco-farm becomes a habitat haven for rare flora and fauna. The estate's original site was formerly a Taiwan Sugar Corporation sugarcane field; after 60 years of conventional monoculture farming, its ecology was fairly uniform. After the estate took over the lease, through sixteen years of effort, the original land was transformed
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Where in China is suitable for growing wasabi? Mid-altitude wasabi in Alishan may make a comeback
The distinctive crop "wasabi" of Alishan Township in Chiayi County gradually disappeared after the Forestry Bureau banned its cultivation on national forest land 20 years ago for national land conservation. Jiang Jinpin, a wasabi farmer who is also a wasabi merchant, introduced 12 Japanese varieties 3 years ago and cultivated them under net houses in the Shizhao area at an altitude of about 1200 m, successfully domesticating 2 wasabi varieties suitable for cultivation at mid-altitude, and is expected to be able to give healthy seedlings to farmers for planting next year.
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At an altitude of 2000 meters, a forest tea garden: the ultimate satisfaction of a high-mountain tea ceremony
Driving up to Lishan is an ordeal; starting from the foot of the mountains in Yilan, the endlessly winding hairpin turns, 3 hours in a state of dizziness and discomfort, and even after reaching Lishan's town center you still have to drive on again to reach the Xinsi Guangyang tribe, and all this wooziness
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Revised guidelines for humane egg production: increased space in poultry houses, no forced molting for egg production
The Agriculture Committee of Taiwan, China recently revised and circulated the "Definition and Guidelines for Humane Egg Production Systems." The biggest differences before and after the revision are lowering the stocking density for free-range and floor-rearing, prohibiting forced molting, stipulating that low-yielding hens after culling must not enter non-humane production system farms for continued rearing, and raising the conditions for enriched cages to EU standards.
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