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New Taipei's Convenient Mechanical Weeding Measure Abused: Agriculture Department Heavily Fines Illegal Land Grading
(Taiwan TB News Network / Reporter Sun Yaozhang) To allow farmers to quickly tend their own farmland, the New Taipei City Agriculture Department launched a streamlined and convenient application process for mechanical weeding of farmland, enabling farmers to use small machinery to remove weeds from their farmland. However, mechanical weeding refers to removing vegetation that cannot be cleared by manpower...
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Reconstruction of the Octagonal Pavilion in Jinguashi, New Taipei: Gold Museum Joins Hands with Community to Create a Rest Space
(Taiwan TB News Network / Reporter Sun Yaozhang) The Octagonal Pavilion, an important historical site in Jinguashi, was a rare local barbershop from the Japanese colonial period until 1987, when the mining company ceased operations. In 2001, due to the devastation of Typhoon Nari, the Octagonal Pavilion unfortunately collapsed and was destroyed, leaving only its base...
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Behind the scenes of the historical drama Gold Leaf: The history and drama of the Jiang A-Xin Western-style House, the strongest tea merchant in Taiwan, China
GoldLeaf - the English title of PTS's latest big drama "Gold Leaf" - throws out a suspense: what kind of leaf can be like gold? This leaf is the dark tea. There was once an era when tea leaves were more expensive than gold. Europeans were crazy about drinking tea, but tea was only produced in a very few regions such as China, Taiwan, China, and Assam in India.
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Cucumber cultivation is highly challenging, but young farmer Lin Kai-yao uses technology to solve the problems
When describing cucumbers, people usually say they are sweet, crisp and refreshing, but have you ever heard that cucumbers are "mischievous"? That's right! Young farmer Lin Kai-yao says cucumbers are animals wearing a plant's skin, and the mischievous kind at that. He once set up
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Heavy rain causes 150 million yuan in agricultural losses; Council of Agriculture closely monitors fruit and vegetable price fluctuations
The Council of Agriculture stated that agricultural losses from the heavy rain have reached NT$150 million, with melons and leafy vegetables particularly affected in Yunlin County, Tainan and Pingtung areas. It will assist county and city governments with agricultural loss procedures and guard against fruit and vegetable price fluctuations. The Ministry of Economic Affairs today held the central flood
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Yunnan Qujing Longwei apple accused by New Zealand's Prevar of variety infringement
Yesterday, Shenzhen SVM Variety Management Co., Ltd. (SVM) issued a statement in both Chinese and English. The statement directly pointed to Longwei apple in Yunnan as infringing, stating that units and individuals in Yunnan had, without permission, propagated, sold and planted Prevar A280 apple saplings, infringing the
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Longtan, Taoyuan: A Century-Old Tea-Making Powerhouse, Wandering the Ponds and Enjoying the Scenery
Longtan's tea industry was once at its peak; during the golden age there were even hundreds of tea factories. Although such prosperity is no longer seen today, what charm does the century-old Fuyuan Tea Factory still possess that continues to draw visitors' attention? Besides tea culture, because Longtan is dotted with large ponds, there are quite a few attractions born from these ponds. Beyond the natural scenery, Longtan's Hakka cuisine is also well known. Visiting Longtan lets you enjoy both beautiful scenery and delicious food!
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Major Survey of Organic Fruit Products: Average Farm Operating Area Nearly 3 Hectares per Household
However, organic farmers mostly adopt diversified cultivation as their operating model. Farmers include crops they currently or plan to grow in the future in their certified product items, but there is a discrepancy between the crop items farmers actually grow and the registration data. If farmers are classified solely by their main crop category, it is difficult to grasp the actual cultivation status of organic agricultural products.
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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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Drought and Low Rainfall Hurt Winter Tea, Yet Nantou High-Mountain Winter Tea Quality Rises Instead of Falling
The results of the "Taiwan High-Mountain Tea King" winter evaluation competition in Ren'ai Township, Nantou County, were released today, with Yuxiang Tea Industry taking the Grand Prize; the award ceremony will be held on the 12th at the Yuanxiang Station. This year, due to the dry climate and low rainfall, the overall quality of high-mountain tea was not as good as in previous years, but because the weather during tea-making was dry and stable
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