Keelung Mayor Lin Yu-chang: Promoting Leisure Agriculture and High-Value Yam Production

The city of Keelung held its annual Farmers' Day celebration on the morning of the 16th. Mayor Lin Yu-chang was present to present awards honoring outstanding farming group leaders and to listen to the voices of many farmers. Mayor Lin Yu-chang stated that the city government will actively promote leisure agriculture and will also provide guidance for high-value specialty agricultural products such as yams, hoping to increase farmers' incomes.

Mayor Lin Yu-chang also pointed out that this year the city government's focus in promoting agriculture is leisure agriculture, hoping to enable our agricultural products to achieve higher value. In particular, yams are a relatively high-value and distinctive agricultural product in the Keelung area, and the cultivated area increased significantly last year. He hopes it can continue to expand and increase farmers' incomes. In addition, last year the city government also promoted projects including rural tap water pipelines and farm road construction. The Malin Leisure Agriculture Center has also been fully renovated and will serve as a platform in the future to promote related leisure agriculture.

Among those receiving commendation this year, the outstanding farming group leaders (and deputy leaders) are: Su Teng, Chen Wang Ding-cai, Chen Jun-long, Yang Wei-min, and Su Qing-ji; the model farmers are: Lin Mei-zhu, Xu Li-ru, Weng Wen-gui, and Chen De-lang; the members (including cadres) of the farming vegetable class are: Zhang Mei-fang, Huang Jin-he, and Zhu Li-xiang; the members (including cadres) of the home economics improvement class are: Chen Chun-jiao and Zhong Xiu-ju; in addition, there are 4-H Club volunteer instructors: Hu Zhi-qiang and Wei Chuan-yuan.