The 10th National Agronomy Fair Symposium stated,"We want to find out why, we want to know the truth, so we listen."

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Hello, fellow bazaars and friends who care about Taiwan's small farmers,

This year's seminar is a little different because it is the least number of market managers in the past year. Over the past 10 years, from youth to maturity, much discussion has been focused on the regulation and operation of the bazaar, as well as the cultivation of mutual trust and feelings through such bazaar masters.

But in the 10th year, society is changing, people's consumption habits are changing, and the challenges faced by the bazaar are also changing.

In recent years, the climate has been unusually hot, and the summer has lasted for almost half a year. Under such hot conditions, coupled with the decline in freshness to the market, the number of people coming to the market has also declined slowly. At the same time, many channels are now offering organic food sales, and there are more and more e-commerce businesses focusing on the concept of organic friendliness.

Recently, as a result of the seminar, I have come into contact with a lot of bazaars. Except for a few bazaars, the bazaars dominated by farmers have been hit hard in sales to varying degrees.

"We want to find out why, we want to know the truth, so we listen."

We want to hear what consumers think of the bazaar, what are their expectations for the bazaar, and why do they come? And why didn't you come? So we found Gu Biling, saffron, Yan Defen these several consumers with professional vision and talk. As a result, there is a theme hosted by Xiao Fei: "the era of going to the market, when consumers meet farmers].

Not long ago, under the extreme weather, under the crisis of multinational corporations constantly buying seed companies and trying to monopolize and commercialize seeds, on the first afternoon of the seminar, in addition to free and open lectures, under the auspices and guidance of teacher Guo Huaren, together with the main team, Xiuming, Pumen, Seedling Farm, crop seed Center, Tzu Xin and other units, we held the first national seed exchange meeting. Through such an occasion, seed conservation and seed collection are actually not far away from the public, and such exchanges and propaganda are particularly important in today's drastic climate changes.

On the second day of the seminar, we also invited Carrefour Ho Mozhen spokesman, General Manager Pu Shengming of Lofi supermarket and General Manager Liu Caiyuan of SuperBuy to talk about the bazaar. Jian you, the host who has been in contact with the bazaar for many years and tried to create a new situation in private agriculture, also tried to guide whether the farmers' bazaar is really so uncompetitive from the point of view of a highly competitive passer-by. What is the advantage that access can never be replaced? Is it even possible for access roads and bazaars to work together to stimulate new business opportunities?

In response, all the bazaars just sit back and wait to die? So we asked the breeze to talk about how they worked with the Kaohsiung city government on green and friendly restaurants, as well as the recent green refrigerator project, as well as three small food communications and agricultural product development, Komori's direct seller system planning, and the water garden's green dining guide. The cases of these bazaars show that the bazaar has not only bought and sold in the bazaar, no one dares to say that it will be successful, and even gropes for it while losing money, but it is precisely this kind of heart that is not afraid to start up, which is moving.

After talking about the creation of consumers, road operators, and bazaars, we are very honored to invite Director Hu Zhongyi of the Agriculture and Food Administration, legislator Cai Peihui, and Zeng Xuzheng, vice chairman of the National Development Council. As a bridge between the bazaar, small farmers and the government, let's talk about what the government intends to do and what the bazaar expects from the public sector. Whether there is always a good conversation between the private sector and the government, but in practice, it is always two parallel lines. In a bazaar dominated by small farmers and even micro farmers, there is an opportunity to work together to break through the sales chain of small farmers.

The stones of other mountains can make mistakes, and at the end of the day, Brother Meng Kai, on behalf of the Taiwan bazaar, came to talk to Marche_Market in Seoul, the Beijing Organic Farmers' Market, and the Nanning Urban Farmers' Market. We are very interested in the huge member organizations that Seoul has developed from the bazaar, and we also want to know how Beijing and Nanning survive without any resources. In this extreme predicament, and what kind of path they have taken.

Yes, this year's market seminar is not typical. We have no market hugging and heating activities, no dinner party, only vegetarian bento, and even let all market managers come to the stage to introduce their respective bazaars.

I think, for 10 years... The bazaars are familiar enough.

So this year we shut up and listen to these precious, authentic and even naked cruel suggestions and criticisms from different fields. These will become the nutrients of all our bazaars, and we will absorb these nutrients and suggestions. I deeply believe that there will be people with lofty ideals who will respond in the market management in the next few years.

This time we start from the future and look back at what we should do now.

Huang Juncheng, Secretary General of Organic Farmer Market in Water Flower Garden

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The 10th National Symposium on Agronomy Bazaar

Time | 2018 10 Universe 14 (Day), 10 Placement 15 (1)

Location | National Taiwan University (Boya Museum + Library International Conference Hall)

Guidance unit | Agriculture and Food Administration of the Agricultural Committee of the Executive Yuan, Industrial Development Bureau of Taipei City Government

Organizer | Shuihua Garden Organic Farmers Market (Taipei Cultural Exploration Association), good Food Machinery Agricultural Food Integration Co., Ltd.

Co-organizer | Bamboo dragonfly Green Bazaar, National Taiwan University Agricultural Development Center

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