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Organic friendly farming exceeds 16500 hectares. This cooperative alone contributes nearly 150 hectares.

Published: 2024-11-06 Author: mysheen
Last Updated: 2024/11/06, Organic agriculture is conducive to environmental sustainability, and it is also an important mode of production of safe food. Since 2016, the Council of Agriculture has set Taiwan's organic and environment-friendly farming area to reach 15000 hectares in 2016, with an annual increase of 10 to 1500 hectares.

Organic agriculture is conducive to environmental sustainability and is also an important mode of production of safe food. since 2016, the Council of Agriculture has set the organic and environmentally friendly farming area of Taiwan to reach 15000 hectares in 2016. the growth target of 10 to 1500 hectares per year thereafter. This year's target of 16500 hectares has been met ahead of schedule. By the end of July, Taiwan's organic friendly farming area had reached 10, 6571 hectares, accounting for 2.09 percent of the domestic agricultural arable land.

Taiwan's Agriculture and Food Administration estimates that 10, 6571 hectares of organic and friendly farming land will help reduce the use of chemical pesticides and chemical fertilizers, and reduce agricultural greenhouse gas emissions by 6142 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent. make a contribution to the sustainable operation of the earth. The "Forest production Co-operative at the Top of Zhushan Town, Nantou County, Limited liability," which has just passed the organic verification, has a verified area of 144.37 hectares, which is the greatest help to the goal at this stage.

The Dinglin Forestry production Cooperative was established in 1948, mainly engaged in the production of fresh bamboo shoots, pickled bamboo shoots, crispy shoots, shredded bamboo shoots and other agricultural products, as well as bamboo wood utilization and processing, because it cooperates with the local government to promote organic and friendly environmental farming policies, coach members and farmers to transform the production of organic bamboo shoots and their processed products, and become the largest production unit and production area of organic bamboo shoots in the country. Lai Mingyang, director of organic agriculture of the Agriculture and Food Department, said that the cooperative is located in the mountains and forests, and the shift to organic farming to produce safe and healthy organic bamboo shoots while taking into account soil and water conservation on hillsides is a rare example.

The Council of Agriculture promotes organic and environment-friendly farming, continues to support farmers to engage in organic agriculture through policies such as organic (transitional) verification and testing fees, and encouraging the use of organic ingredients for school lunches. After the passage of the Organic Agriculture Promotion Law, in addition to the agricultural and grain industry originally promoted, it has also been expanded to forest, fishing, livestock and other industries, which are related to each other, such as the promotion of organic fisheries and livestock products, and the sources of organic feed they need. it can promote the production of organic corn, soybeans and forage. Encouraging the economic management of woodland or undergrowth can expand the organic area and implement mountain forest conservation and ecological conservation, which will help to establish the integrity of the organic industry.

 
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