What are the subsidy guidelines for organic farmers' markets?

Ecological farms are mostly far from the noisy city, and only this way can agricultural products be well produced. So what are the subsidy guidelines for guiding the establishment of organic and friendly farmers' markets? Let's take a look together.

1. Purpose: The Agriculture and Food Agency of the Council of Agriculture, Executive Yuan, in order to guide local governments, schools and agricultural groups in organizing organic and friendly farmers' market activities, increase marketing channels for organic and friendly farming agricultural products, and promote the concept of organic farming, hereby establishes these subsidy guidelines.
2. Promotion goals:
(1) Guide organic and friendly farming producers to increase their agricultural product marketing channels, open up consumer markets, provide trading platforms, and have farmers personally sell their own agricultural products to the consuming public, promoting the concept of organic farming.
(2) Held at fixed locations and on a regular basis, locally produced and locally consumed, shortening food miles, and integrating with regional cultural industries.
(3) Consumers and farmers talk directly, build friendships and mutual trust, and cultivate farmers' self-respect and confidence in selling their own agricultural products.
(4) Farmers uphold the spirit of self-governance and self-management, establish the market's reputation and word of mouth, so as to achieve sustainable operation.
3. Subsidy recipients:
(1) Municipalities, county (city) governments, and universities and colleges.
(2) Farmers' groups that meet the provisions of Article 3, Subparagraph 7 of the Agricultural Development Act.
(3) Civil organizations registered with the Council of Agriculture, Executive Yuan as the competent authority for their designated business.
(4) Agricultural foundations established in accordance with the Council of Agriculture, Executive Yuan's Directions for Reviewing the Establishment Permit and Supervision of Agricultural Foundations.
(5) Friendly environmental farming promotion groups approved by the Council of Agriculture.
(6) Other legal persons or groups approved for subsidies under special projects.
Subsidy criteria: 1. Subsidy items are in principle the display tables, tents, advertising boards and other equipment needed to set up market stalls, education and training, promotional advertising, and activities related to organic food and farming education.
2. Handled in accordance with the Agency's subsidy criteria for supervised projects and budget expenditure regulations; applicant units shall raise matching funds of 20 percent or more of the total budget. The Agency's subsidy shall be a maximum of 800,000 yuan in the first year; a maximum of 400,000 yuan in the second year; and a maximum of 200,000 yuan from the third year onward.
3. The subsidy amount shall be adjusted as appropriate according to the annual project budget amount and the number of stalls set up. For the complete [Subsidy Guidelines for Guiding the Establishment of Organic and Friendly Farmers' Markets], please click the file link below to download!