The president visited Yunlin Qingnong to learn about the results of agro-processing counseling.

The president visited Yunlin Qingnong to learn about the results of agro-processing counseling.

President Ma visited green farmers in Yunlin and tasted green bamboo shoots.

On the morning of September 26, President Ma, accompanied by Chen Baoji, chairman of the Council of Agriculture, and Zhang Huangzhen, deputy magistrate of Yunlin County, inspected the green bamboo shoot processing plant run by Li Xingchen, a hundred green farmers, and learned about its operation. The president expressed satisfaction and affirmation that Xingchen, through the guidance and assistance of the Council of Agriculture, successfully copied the original family's green bamboo shoot management and processing business in Taoyuan Daxi, and assisted in the development of the local bamboo shoot industry.

After listening to the reports on the future management direction and vision of the four young farmers present at the meeting, the president encouraged young farmers to take part in the value-added development of the agricultural industry chain with a speech of "amazed everywhere, sighing all the time, Taiwan's agriculture, and seeing hope." and play an active role in leading innovation in the agricultural industry, not only to become a new generation of agricultural workers, but also to create a new situation for the future of Taiwan's agriculture.

Agricultural value-added, people-oriented

The Council of Agriculture said that China's agriculture is facing problems such as "manpower aging, gap between managers and managers", "lack of economies of scale", and "gap in talent training, learning and application". In order to promote important agricultural policy plans in the future, such as Taiwan's bio-economic industry development plan, agricultural productivity 4.0, and agricultural products e-commerce, it is also necessary to use the new generation of agricultural workers as momentum to lead young people to invest in agriculture with innovative thinking. Through cross-disciplinary cooperation, market value orientation, intelligent production management, creative service value added and other strategies to inject new impetus into agricultural development and promote sustainable agricultural development.

The Council of Agriculture stated that in response to trade liberalization and the trend of the urban consumer market, safe, fresh and ready-to-eat agricultural products processing technology is one of the important keys to agricultural export and value-added, through the development of key technologies and the integration of agricultural products, will effectively promote Taiwan's high-quality agricultural products to the world.

Among them, four young farmers, Li Xingchen, Lin Shangwei, Zhang Jianhao and Hou Zhaofeng, operate agricultural production and processing undertakings, giving full play to the plus-multiplication effect of team innovative learning through joint counseling, exchange and cooperation, and assist young farmers to move from primary production to secondary processing, encouraging them to continuously improve their technology, produce safe and high-quality agro-processed products, and enhance their market competitiveness.

The cultivation of young farmers and the success of counseling

The Council of Agriculture pointed out that it promotes the project counseling program for young farmers, which selects 100 young farmers every year and provides two years of guidance, combined with various agricultural administration resources such as farmers' colleges, small landlords and big tenant farmers and young farmers' entrepreneurial loans, to provide companion guidance including production technology, marketing, finance, research and development, organization and information, etc. Various assistance measures such as subsidies for facilities and equipment and loans for three-year zero interest projects will enable young farmers to grow steadily from the early agricultural stage and develop in the direction of expanding business scale and innovative value-added.

The Council of Agriculture coached the first project to guide 100 young farmers, mobilized more than 4200 agro-technical and cross-disciplinary experts, combined with experimental research resources to introduce 92 new technologies or varieties, subsidized more than 1530 million yuan in facilities and equipment for operation, and borrowed more than 88.97 million yuan in nuclear loans to young farmers to start businesses. The output value of young farmers has increased by an average of 11%, expanding the scale of operation by more than 400 hectares, and helping to expand the channels of about 190 products through more than 200 items such as Geyuan gardens, production and marketing resumes, or organic certification items.

President ▲ visited Yunlin Qingnong to learn about the results of agro-processing counseling.