The Council of Agriculture continues to promote the new agricultural policy to create a reassuring agricultural environment.

The Council of Agriculture continues to promote the new agricultural policy to create a reassuring agricultural environment.

Farmers' occupational disaster insurance was officially on the road yesterday (11pm). From now on, all farmers who are qualified for health insurance can participate, and farmers are more secure. The Committee on Agriculture of the Executive Yuan said that farmers' occupational disaster insurance is an important part of the government's efforts to promote new agricultural policies to protect farmers' rights and interests, and will continue to promote major policies in the new agriculture in the future. such as rewarding organic farming, green payment to the land environment, solving agricultural labor shortage, primary processing of agricultural products, stabilizing agricultural prices, etc., increase the agricultural industry value chain and increase farmers' income.

The Committee of Agriculture pointed out that in recent years, the average total income per household has shown a trend of increasing year by year, with an average annual growth rate of 3.6%. By the end of 106, compared with 103 years, the average total income per household has increased by 138000 yuan, and the agricultural employment population has also shown an increasing trend. Up to September this year, the agricultural employment population has increased by 3, 000, and the deposits of the credit department of peasant associations have also increased year by year. At the end of September this year, the total deposits of the Credit Department of the Taiwan Peasants' Association increased by about 30 billion yuan compared with the same period last year. Among them, major agricultural counties and cities such as Taichung City, Tainan City, Kaohsiung City, Nantou County, Changhua County, Yunlin County, Chiayi County, and Pingtung County are all showing positive growth. It is obvious that the policy goal of new agriculture to create an agricultural environment of peace of mind has gradually begun to show.

In terms of main fruit exports, the total export volume of fruits from January to September this year has reached 62,000 metric tons, an increase of 26% compared with the average export volume for the same period in the past five years, among which pineapple, Sakya, mango, citrus and grapefruit are the most outstanding, with a total export volume of 30826 metric tons, 9144 metric tons, 5201 metric tons, 4997 metric tons and 3006 metric tons respectively. Compared with the same period last year, it increased by 15.3%, 87.8%, 9.2%, 86.3% and 29.1%, respectively. With regard to the import of sensitive crops, from January to September this year, garlic, red beans and peanuts imported 9523 metric tons, 2710 metric tons and 6318 metric tons respectively, a decrease of 57.4%, 51.6% and 37.1% respectively compared with the same period last year. These crops will enter the main production period in the next few months, and the Council of Agriculture is confident that prices can be maintained at a reasonable level to ensure farmers' income.

▲ Council of Agriculture continues to promote the new agricultural policy to create peace of mind from the agricultural environment