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Guidelines of the New Agricultural Policies

-Establish a Healthy, Efficient and Sustainable


Agriculture
for All the Citizens

Council of Agriculture, Executive Yuan


July 2008
Table of Contents
1. Review of Taiwan’s Past Agricultural Developments
Policies
2. Current Economic Environment and the Irreversible
Trends
3. Basic Guidelines for the New Agricultural Policies
4. Six Pillars for Future Agricultural Development
Policies
5. Key Programs for Short, Medium and Long Term
6. Conclusions
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Review of Taiwan’s Past Agricultural
Developments Policies
• During the Japanese Occupation, the policy was “Agricultural
development in Taiwan; Industry development in Japan”.
• After Taiwan was reclaimed from Japan, the policy was “Develop
Industries based on Agriculture, and Assisted Agriculture
Development by Industries”.
• With the contributions in food, labour, capital and markets from
farming industry, the Taiwan economy took off and entered into a
transition period in the 1960s.
• Agriculture accounted for more than 30% of GDP in the 1950s but fall
only to 1.45% in 2007. However, the contribution was 11% if the
related primary, secondary and tertiary industries are included. This
shows that agriculture remains an important sector in the Taiwan’s
overall economy.
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Review of Taiwan’s Agricultural
Developments Policies (Con’t)
• The agriculture population was over 50% before the 1960s, but dropped
to 5.4% in 2007.
• Agriculture trade deficits began in the 1970s. The deficits totaled US$7
billion in 2007.
• Income per capital in agriculture is roughly 68%-80% of the income per
capital in non-agriculture sectors. The income from agricultural activities
of farmers dropped from 40% in the early 1970s to 20% in 2006.
• Agriculture has shifted its role as the supplier of food in the past to the
current multi-function role in food security, rural village development and
ecosystem conservation.

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Statistics of Agriculture in Taiwan over Past Decade
Year 1997 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007
Production Value(NT$100
million) 3,790 3,527 3,505 3,579 3,865 3,824 3,770 3,883

Farmland Area(10,000 hectares) 86.5 84.9 84.7 84.4 83.6 83.3 83.0 82.6
(Index, %) (125.0) (105.4) (100.4) (91.1) (81.6) (86.4) (85.3) (83.6)

Working Population (1,000 People) 878 708 709 696 642 591 555 543
(% of total working population) (9.6) (7.5) (7.5) (7.3) (6.6) (5.9) (5.5) (5.4)
Farm Labor Productivity
(NT$10,000 per capital)
43.2 50.0 49.4 51.4 60.2 64.5 67.9 71.5

Farmers’ Income per Capital


(NT$10,000)
20.7 22.4 21.7 22.2 23.0 23.2 24.6 NA
Average Income per Farm
Household 90.7 88.1 86.1 87.4 89.3 87.3 94.1
(% compared to non-agriculture
NA
(80.78) (77.56) (75.50) (76.91) (78.08) (75.43) (80.43)
sectors )

Farm trade Deficits


(US$100 million)
59.4 38.2 39.3 45.4 53.1 57.7 61.3 70.2

Food Self-Supply Rate 5


(Price Index, %)
79.4 81.9 81.5 78.0 75.7 74.2 74.4 NA
Statistics of Agricultural Trade in Taiwan over the Past Decad
Unit: US$ billion

Export Import Balance of trade


Year Agricultural Annual growth rate Agricultural Annual growth rate Agricultural Annual growth rate
product (%) product (%) product (%)

1996 5.49 -2.83 9.99 2.18 -4.50 9.02


1998 3.16 -42.47 7.81 -21.85 -4.65 3.27
2000 3.28 3.91 7.60 -2.60 -4.32 -7.01
2001 3.03 -7.57 6.86 -9.72 -3.83 -11.36
2002 3.15 3.93 7.11 3.54 -3.96 3.23
2003 3.24 2.97 7.83 10.19 -4.59 15.94
2004 3.55 9.58 8.86 13.19 -5.31 15.74
2005 3.58 0.79 9.36 5.56 -5.77 8.76
2006 3.30 -7.90 9.43 0.78 -6.13 3.65
2007 3.43 4.08 10.46 10.90 -7.02 17.36
+1.9% +8.1% 6
Average Average
Current Economic Environment and
Irreversible Trends
• Doha Round Negotiations, a new round negotiation of the WTO, began in 2001.
The farm products market will be even more further liberalized.
• Integration and competition of agriculture between Taiwan and Mainland China.
• Tokyo Protocol took effect in February 2005. Taiwan will take on its responsibility
in energy conservation and carbon reductions by reducing the emissions of
greenhouse gases.
• High energy prices and tightened supply of commodities cause ongoing rises of
food prices.
• Increasing concerns over the safety of agricultural products in both Taiwan and
overseas members.

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Basic Guidelines for the New
Agricultural Policies

Establish a Healthy, Efficient


and Sustainable Agriculture
for All the Citizens

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Three Main Visions

1. Establishing Taiwan as a Poison-Free Agricultural Island


within 50 years;

2. Increasing per agricultural household income to over NT$1


million within 4 years;

3. Building 4,000 beautiful rural communities within 10 years

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The Five Main Objectives of the
People’s Agriculture
 For farmers - profits, efficiency and welfare;
 For consumers- freshness, quality and healthy food
 For the environment - landscape, energy-saving, sustainability
 For future generations - clean environment, markets and high
technology
 For the world- responsibility, harmony and high green energy

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Six Pillars for National Agriculture
1. Establish a responsible agriculture industry to ensure sustainability;
2. Develop a competitive, market-oriented agriculture industry with the
support of advanced technologies;
3. Improve farmers’ welfare and encourage retirement of old farmers;
4. Implement the third-stage farmland reform program and build new
and beautiful rural communities;
5. Enhance exports of agricultural products by promoting overseas trade
activities and cooperating with Mainland China’s agricultural
industries.
6. Improve the agricultural administration system and farmers’
associations services

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Establish a responsible agriculture
industry to ensure sustainability
• In order to curb global warming, large areas will be dedicated to tree planting. A
total of 60,000 hectares on plains are planned for the planting in the next 8 years.
Direct subsidies is NT$120,000 for each hectare. Absorption of 2.2 million tons
of CO2 is expected each year, i.e. a reduction of 1% CO2 emission. (Taiwan is
the 14th largest emitter of CO2.)
• To protect the health of consumers, efforts will be made to ensure all rice,
vegetable, fish and livestock products are in compliance with CAS (Certified
Agricultural Standards) in 4 years. Expansion in outputs of organic agricultural
products is planned. Gradual promotion of the records system of selected
products production and marketing is promoted intending to make Taiwan a
poison-free Island in 50 years.

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Develop a competitive, market-oriented
agriculture industry with the support of
advanced technologies
• With the same dedications shown in agriculture science parks, Taiwan
is to establish itself into a world-class flower island with promoting a
specialized production farming areas to upgrade the traditional flower
industry technology.
• It is planned to set up specialized areas for premier rice production,
“Global Centre of Sub-Tropical Fruits” and “Asia Pacific Centre for
Seedling, Fishery and Livestock Breeding”.
• High value agricultural products are to be developed to sell to the
international markets.

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Improve farmers’ welfare and
encourage retirement of old farmers
• The guaranteed price for rice should be increased. Or,
direct income subsidies should be granted to improve
incomes of rice farmers.
• A retirement mechanism should be established for old
farmers. The allowance for old farmers will be continued.
Laws should be amended to protect the farmers’ insurance
right.

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Implement the third-stage farmland
reform program and build new and
beautiful rural communities
• To encourage old farmers to retire early and to implement
“Small Land-owners & Big Land-renters” Program.
• To implement “Farming Village Rebirth Program” with
NT$150 billion Farming Village Rebirth Fund to take care
of 4,000 rural villages and 600,000 farm households.

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Enhance exports of agricultural products by promoting trade
activities overseas and promoting Integration and cooperating of
agricultural industries with Mainland China
• To develop international channels for agricultural products from
Taiwan by establishing long-term marketing networks; to establish
strategic alliances with international corporations and multinationals
to expand the international markets;
• To start negotiations for the fishery industries cooperation with
Mainland China; to deploy a mechanism for intellectual properties
and trademarks between Taiwan and mainland China; to trade and
cooperate with the agricultural industry with China to seek mutual
benefits, e.g. imports of corns and animal feeds from Mainland China
and exports of fruits and pork from Taiwan to Mainland China.

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Improve the agricultural
administration system and farmers’
associations services
• To strengthen the administrative system for the agricultural
development by setting up the Ministry of Agriculture so that it can
perform the function of integrating agriculture, forestry, fishery and
livestock industries sectors together;
• To unite fishermen’s and farmers’ associations of all levels to
construct a nationwide marketing network for agricultural products
and to further develop this network into an international trade
company;
• To assist Taiwan Joint Irrigation Association to fully utilize the
resources to develop the industries with leisure agriculture, tourism
and water usage so that it can create new financial resources for the
association. 17
Key Programs for Short, Medium and
Long Term
Short Term—Until the End of 2008
Medium Term—Until the End of 2009
Long Term—From 2009 to 2012

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Short Term (Until the End of 2008)
1.Inspections on agricultural produces will be improved to protect the health of consumers. CAS
(Certified Agricultural Standard), once suspended, will be resumed. By the end of 2008, it is
targeted to have organized 1,100 classes for CAS production and marketing. The certificate
systems for CAS organic produces, good produces and production and marketing records of
produces will be implemented so as to construct a robust production and marketing system for
healthy and safe agricultural products.
2. To promote and implement a smart and reasonable use of fertilizers by establishing 100 locations
to demonstrate the concept. The goal is to reduce chemical fertilizers by 5% by the end of 2008.
3. To adjust the set-aside policies by stopping the support in the production of biomass crops; to
encourage the growing of corns and animal feeds; to activate the use of idle lands so as to
maintain the food security of Taiwan.
4. To establish a retirement system for old farmers, the Peasant Health Insurance Act should be
amended so that old farmers can lend out their lands for retirement but get to retain their farmer
insurance. This will protect the farmers’ insurance rights for retired old farmers (Led by the
Ministry of the Interior/Assisted by The Council of Agriculture)
5. To expand the scale of farms so as to enhance their production efficiency. “Small Land-owners &
Big Land-renters” Project will run a trial program in 10 chosen locations.

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Short Term (Until the End of 2008)(Con’d)
6. To stabilize the production and marketing of the livestock products, an industry-based adjustment
system will be established. Some articles of the Animal Husbandry Act will be modified in order
to promote the management of the production quantity and the offering of development funds to
the industry.
7. To develop multi-function fishing harbors in a systematic approach and conduct dredging
engineering in 36 fishing harbors to ensure the operational safety of fishermen.
8. To draft the Regulations Governing Rebirth of Farming Villages and to conduct a trial rebirth
program in 7 farming and fishery communities and develop human resources in 210 communities.
9. To implement forestation programs on the plains with an initial phase of 600 hectares; to complete
the planning of one large-scale forest recreation park on the plains so as to serve as a vehicle for
better education in nature and environment.
10. The Organization Guidelines of the Irrigation Association should be amended so as to fully utilize
the resources of irrigation associations to develop the industries related to water resources
utilization.

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Medium Term (Until the End of 2009)
1. To take care of all the consumers and farmers, it is intended to promote the CAS system, organic
agriculture, and quality produces through a variety of methods. The system to record the
production and distribution of agricultural products will be established in order to build a
comprehensive certification, production and distribution system for healthy and safe farm products.
2. To adjust the set-aside policies into one phase for all idle lands within a year; to expand the scope of
incentives for the production of corns, pasture and forage corns.
3. To establish a retirement system for old farmers with “Small Land-owners & Big Land-renters”
Project; to promote the utilization of old farmers’ experience and assist them to pass down their
practics; to assist business management of “Big Land-renters”.
4. To enhance the R&D of new varieties and the protection of new variety rights; to establish a
production and certification system for quality seedling and animal breeding, i.e. “Asia Pacific
Centre for Seedling, Fishery and Animal breeding”.
5. To establish dedicated regions for flower growing; to promote the high-quality and high-efficiency
production system; to set up a security management system for fruits production; to select the
fruits for which Taiwan has technical knowhow and variety advantages; to expand export markets;
to make Taiwan “Global Centre of Sub-Tropical Fruits”
6. To establish strategic alliances with large corporations that have international marketing capacity; to
build up a stable marketing channel for the exports of the Taiwan’s agricultural products.

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Medium Term (Until the End of 2009)(con’d)
7. To grasp the business opportunities with the arrival of tourists from Mainland China by
establishing showcase shopping centers of the best of agricultural products of mainland Taiwan
and promoting a mechanism for order taking in Taiwan and pick up the delivery in Mainland
China.
8. To extend the scope of businesses for credit development of farmers’ and fishermen’s associations
so as to increase their incomes; to relax the restrictions in capital utilization so as to provide
financing to farmers and fishermen in production and marketing.
9. To promote Farming Village Rebirth Program by implementing it to revamp 90 farming and
fishery villages/communities and develop human resources in 170 communities, in order to
establish new and beautiful farming and fishery rural villages.
10. To encourage the reclaims along the coast and to revitalize the functions of fishery harbors by
installing facilities required for leisure and sightseeing so as to enable these harbors to serve
multiple functions.
11. To implement the policies to reduce energy consumption and carbon emissions, to expand tree
planting, to reduce the number of fishing boats, to encourage a reasonable use of fertilizers, to
promote the re-use of wastes.
12. To drive the projects of tree planting with 4,250 hectares of forest developing on the plains and
manage 47,500 hectares of forest lands. To organize an international bidding for the plan of a
large forest recreation parks on the plains choose the appropriate location and provide the
resources needed.
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Long Term (2009-2012)
1. To promote the CAS certificate system; to encourage the organic products production.
2. To encourage old farmers to retire early and to implement “Small Land-owners & Big Land-renters”
Program.
3. To explore the possibility of direct subsidy instead of the current purchase system with guaranteed
prices for rice.
4. To promote “Agricultural & Biological Technology Development Projects”
5. To improve the irrigation systems for key production areas to important horticulture plants
production, in order to reduce the losses due to drought and floods.
6. To establish a world-class “Flower Island” and “Subtropical Fruits Center”.
7. To build up dedicated areas for larvae breeding for both edible fish and ornamental fish.
8. To participate international fishery organizations in order to assume Taiwan’s responsibility as a
major deep water fishery country.
9. To develop export markets for agricultural products by establishing marketing channels and brand
images.

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Long Term (2009-2012)(con’d)
10. To unite fishermen’s and farmers’ associations of all levels to establish a nationwide marketing
network for agricultural products and to further develop this network into an international trade
company;
11.To strengthen eradication measures to free Taiwan from Foot-Mouth Disease.
12.To implement a differentiation management system for credit department of farmers’ and
fishermen’s associations in order to better their asset quality; to integrate channel resources of all
the farmers’ and fishermen’s associations throughout Taiwan in order to expand the business base
of their credit department.
13. Implement Farming Village Rebirth Program to build new and beautiful farming villages;
14. To promote reclaims along the coast in order to establish a high-quality environment for fishing.
15.To reduce the number of fishing boats and conserve the marine resources in order to maintain the
ecosystem of Taiwan’s marine environment.
16.To promote energy-saving and carbon reductions so as to improve the effectiveness of production
and marketing of agriculture.
17.To grow more forests so that they can absorb more carbon, preserve water resources and proect the
environment.
18.To promote a holistic approach in mountain preservation and disaster prevention in order to ensure
the security of the national lands.

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Conclusions
Take Root Now;
Care for the Future;
Make efforts over all the World;
Lead the Taiwan Agricultural Industry
into a New Era.

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