Meizhou and Taiwan join hands to promote agricultural entrepreneurship and innovation

Original title: Meitai Agricultural Entrepreneurship and Innovation Center established in Meizhou, Guangdong Province

Meitai Agricultural Entrepreneurship and Innovation Center unveiled and founded, photo by Cai Xinxin

The Meitai Agricultural Entrepreneurship and Innovation Center, jointly established by the Meizhou Agricultural Bureau and the Taiwan Bureau of the Meizhou Municipal people's Government, was set up on the 21st in Meizhou Meitai Cultural and Creative Industry Park, as well as a "cross-strait and four-place agricultural expert workstation."

Meitai Agricultural Entrepreneurship and Innovation Center is a cultural and creative platform for agricultural commodities, which will deepen the field of agricultural cooperation between Mei and Taiwan, learn and introduce improved varieties, methods and products of Taiwan's agricultural products, and combine local food culture and agricultural culture. innovate in varieties, technology, functions and other aspects. After the establishment of agricultural expert workstations on both sides of the strait, more than 170 agricultural experts from Guangdong Province, the doctoral working Group of Taiwan Agricultural experts, and the Hong Kong Organic Certification Center will cooperate with the Meizhou Agricultural Department to carry out cooperation and exchanges in many fields, such as land improvement, improved varieties and methods, and intensive processing of agricultural products.

Liu Yutao, director of the Meizhou Agricultural Bureau, said that Taiwan's modern agricultural development has been in the forefront, and the agricultural development concept of "refinement of leading industries and leisure of characteristic industries" is worth learning from Meizhou. The "mass entrepreneurship and innovation" center and workstation, one is a creative park for farmers' commodities in the market economy, to cultivate "cultural agricultural industries." One is the scientific and technological support in the agricultural production chain, which also provides a broader space for the transformation and application of Taiwan's agricultural scientific and technological achievements.

It is reported that Meizhou is a famous "hometown of Taiwan compatriots", with close exchanges between the two places, and similar agricultural production conditions in the same latitude zones of Meizhou and Taiwan. In the face of the difficulties in the agricultural transformation, such as the aging of rural labor force and the low efficiency of traditional crops, Meizhou began to learn from Taiwan's exquisite agricultural model. At present, more than 30 fine varieties of Taiwan, such as cherry blossoms, orchids and borneol, and more than 30 Taiwan-related agricultural enterprises have been introduced. In May 2010, the Ministry of Agriculture of China and the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council approved the establishment of Taiwan Farmers' Entrepreneurship Park in Meizhou. (Cai Xinxin, Wen Jingtian)