Organic agriculture development milestone! After seven years of efforts, the Law on the Promotion of Organic Agriculture is expected to be read and passed next Wednesday.

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In order to speed up the passage of the Organic Agriculture Promotion Law in the current session of the Legislative Yuan, former Premier you Xiyi, accompanied by a number of DPP legislators and scholars, called on Su Jiaquan, president of the Legislative Yuan, KMT caucus, Democratic Progressive Party caucus, time Power Party caucus, and people-friendly Party caucuses one by one. You Xicheng said that the purpose of promoting the organic agriculture law is to enable people to eat healthily, to be friendly to the earth, and to revitalize the countryside. "all we need now is one foot in the door. I hope everyone can help us to pass the bill smoothly."

Chen Ting-Fei, a legislator of the Democratic Progressive Party, also pointed out: "President Su Jiaquan has agreed to hold caucus consultations this Friday. If the negotiations go smoothly, the third reading will be passed smoothly next Tuesday."

Call on the Times Power Party Group (Photography / Liu Yixin)

Guo Huaren: the government should readjust the manpower and structure of organic agriculture.

Guo Huaren, who has worked hard to promote organic agriculture and regulations for many years, said, "promoting organic agriculture is the greatest aspiration. Assuming that the organic agriculture law is passed, the wish is about to begin." Kuo Hua-Jen said that organic agriculture in Taiwan has a history of 20 to 30 years, and since 2011, legislation has been promoted and the bill is about to be passed. "We are very pleased, and on the basis of this bill, we should make greater efforts to promote organic agriculture."

As soon as the conversation changed, Guo pointed out that Taiwan urgently needs to transition to organic agriculture, on the one hand, because habitual agriculture depends on oil, including fertilizers, pesticides, machinery, etc., it is feasible for oil to be cheap now, but in the future energy crisis, oil will become more and more expensive. Habitual agriculture will not be able to go on, and it is inevitable to switch to organic agriculture. On the other hand, the progress of organic agriculture in Taiwan is slow. The real transformation of a farm takes not only three years, but also ten years before the farmland can be restored to health. Under such a crisis, Taiwan must now develop complete organic agriculture as soon as possible.

However, with regard to the current negotiated version of the Organic Agriculture Promotion Law, Guo Huaren points out, "the provisions negotiated fall a little behind our imagination, but we still let it pass first, and then amend it later." Organic agriculture is an overall concept and involves a wide range of aspects, but the competent authority is the Organic Agriculture Section under the Agriculture and Food Department, which not only has a small number of people, but also has no way to take care of other departments. for example, the counseling section for farmers involves the Counseling Office of the Council of Agriculture, the overall planning part involves the Planning Office of the Council of Agriculture, and even the organic fisheries proposed by the European Union will also involve the Agriculture and Fisheries Department. "then how can the Agriculture and Food Department manage the other parts?"

Guo said that it is hoped that a committee will be set up under the chairman of the Council of Agriculture to hold regular meetings to deal with matters related to organic agriculture, and that the members of the committee should not only be insiders of the Council of Agriculture, but also have outside experts, so that they can draw on their collective wisdom.

A big step forward in the development of organic agriculture the Executive Yuan today passed the draft Law on the Promotion of Organic Agriculture

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