Taiwan's livestock production is supported by escaped foreign workers? Dairy farmers ask for the introduction of agricultural foreign labor, Ministry of Labor: fear of changing the face of the countryside

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Agricultural labor shortage has been a problem for a long time, in addition to the integration of domestic labor force, whether to open up the introduction of foreign workers, has also become an issue of concern to the outside world. Hong Chang-jin, chairman of the Republic of China Dairy Farmers Association, says that compared with other livestock industries, cheese farming is not easy to automate production, so it is a regular lack of work. "although the introduction of foreign workers is not a panacea, at least open the door and use a special program to allow casein agriculture to import foreign workers in an appropriate way and improve the shortage of workers."

In response to the issue of shortage of agricultural workers, Chiu Chuang-jin, chief executive of the Central Animal production Association of the consortium, pointed out directly at a policy forum on "revitalizing and promoting the Application of Agricultural Manpower" on the 10th: "Taiwan's shortage of workers is supported by illegal foreign workers escaped from factories. Every time they go to the New North Poultry and North Poultry slaughterhouse, they all ask not to let the police copy illegal foreign workers. As soon as the police come, the production line will stop."

However, Zhuang Guoliang, a special member of the Labor Development Department of the Ministry of Labor, also responded that the slaughtering industry has opened up foreign workers since March 2016, and the New North Poultry and North Poultry slaughterhouses can apply for legal foreign workers. However, at present, it is stipulated that a certain proportion of domestic workers must be employed before foreign workers can be employed. "only by employing 100 local workers can we employ 25 foreign workers." To ensure that the employment rights and interests of domestic workers will not be affected.

Director of the guidance Office of the Council of Agriculture Zhu Jianwei (photo source / live screenshot of the Council of Agriculture)

Variety improvement stagger production season to alleviate the phenomenon of lack of work

Liang Mingxian, director and secretary of the Agricultural Bureau of the Kaohsiung Municipal Government, said that Kaohsiung has four agrotechnical missions with a total of 120 people, which can provide 30, 1680 people a year to assist in farming such as jade purse, pineapple, jujube, guava, lotus and so on.

However, in addition to replenishing the labor force, efforts have also been made to improve varieties in recent years. Liang Ming-hsien points out that as soon as the jade purse season arrives, more than 2,000 hectares of lychees must be harvested within 10 days, which is a challenge to the manpower and market digestion. However, if a new variety of litchi is developed, the harvest will be advanced to April and the production period will be dispersed. On the other hand, lotus can be planted separately, such as slap, black sugar Barbie, bullet lotus, and so on, which can be harvested from the end of the year to June and July of the next year. After lengthening the production period, the shortage of work is significantly improved.

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