[exclusive interview] how to make a heavy elephant dance? Hu Zhongyi, the new director of agriculture and grain, was ordered to reverse the agricultural physique in the face of danger.

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Under the wave of extreme weather and globalization, agricultural products are full of conditions, and the traditional mode of operation of government departments is like a slow elephant, unable to cope. Since the beginning of this year, there have been frequent alarms about a number of crop production and marketing imbalances. In mid-July, Hu Zhongyi was appointed to take over as director of the Agriculture and Food Administration.

Hu Zhongyi, a doctor of agricultural economics from the University of Tokyo, Japan, has an in-depth study of Japanese agricultural policy, agricultural association organizations, and food and agricultural education. He started as a technical assistant in the era of the Department of Agriculture and Forestry. Along the way, he served as an irrigation and water conservancy office, a planning office, a counseling office, and a representative office in Japan. He had broad contacts and was very familiar with the domestic peasant association system and the Japanese agricultural industry.

In the past, the Agriculture and Food Department focused on production but weak marketing. Hu Zhongyi is good at the connection between agriculture and consumers. in the past, he first advocated production and marketing resumes, industrial strategic alliances, and land sales, but he was forced to stop because of a change of dynasty. Now he rolls up his sleeves again, but the challenge is even more serious.

Except for forests and farmed animals, crops grown on the land are managed by the Agriculture and Food Department, including rice, miscellaneous grains, fruit trees, vegetables, flowers and seedlings. Of the 120 billion budget of the Council of Agriculture, 30 billion are handed over to the Agriculture and Food Administration for implementation, but fallow subsidies, public grain purchase, and fertilizer subsidies account for most of them, and not many of them can be used flexibly. With limited funds and an old image, how will this veteran farmer lead the heavy elephant of the Agriculture and Food Administration to dance? "upstream and downstream" specially conducted an exclusive interview, which was fully presented in the way of question and answer.

Pingtung's friendly red beans without defoliant are not easy to get. (photo / Tsai Jiashan)

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