Agricultural economic scholars asked for an open debate on the regulations of the self-economic zone: "Please treat it rationally."

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The interim meeting of the Legislative Yuan will examine the special bill on the free economic demonstration zone. Yesterday, a number of agricultural scholars and farmers unanimously opposed the 830 items of imports of Chinese agricultural products under open control, and advocated that the five provisions related to "agricultural value added" in the self-economic zone should be deleted. The Council of Agriculture responded, "Please look at the agricultural value-added policy in the demonstration area rationally."

Farmers who come to Taiwan with open control of Chinese agricultural products: did you ask us first?

Article 42 of the regulations of the self-Economic Zone is a battlefield provision vehemently refuted by the people and the Council of Agriculture on the agricultural value-added plan. This provision opened up 830 items of Chinese agricultural products that were previously prohibited from coming to Taiwan to enter the self-economic zone, causing strong doubts among the public. Miaoli Bay Bao farmer flood box said: "the government only wants to open up Chinese agricultural products to attack domestic farmers, and officials should step down." Wu Chia-ling, a rice farmer in Ilan, questioned that since the economic zone, Chinese agricultural products were allowed to come to Taiwan and linked to MIT for export. "this basically requires Taiwan farmers to endorse Chinese agricultural products. Has the government asked Taiwan farmers first?"

If Chinese agricultural products are allowed to enter the self-economic zone, if they flow into Taiwan, low-priced Chinese agricultural products will replace Taiwan's agricultural products and have an impact on Taiwan's agriculture. In addition, Chinese agricultural products are used as processing raw materials in the economic zone, and the processed food is marked as MIT for export. if the quality is poor, it will also affect the reputation of Taiwan brands. Third, if all Chinese agricultural products are exported after processing in the economic zone, since manufacturers are not required to use domestic agricultural raw materials, Taiwan's agricultural raw materials will also be replaced by Chinese agricultural products.

A number of agricultural scholars and farmers asked Chen Baoji, chairman of the Council of Agriculture, to step down (photo / Yang Zhenyu)

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