Organic farms are frequently levied, and there is nothing the Organic Agriculture Promotion Act can do about it. The legislator called for the law to be revised as soon as possible.

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The Organic Agriculture Promotion Law has been on the road for more than a year, but organic farms such as Nakasaki Organic Farm and Honey Ranch have been expropriated frequently, and the survival of organic farmers has been greatly challenged. Yesterday (17), "organic agriculture 'promotion' law or 'destruction' method?" The public hearing called for the law to be amended as soon as possible in order to truly protect the rights and interests of organic farmers.

In particular, Article 6 of this law, on public land and state-owned land should give priority to the establishment of organic agriculture promotion areas, lack of mandatory, if the local government to consider the development of land requisition, the Organic Agriculture Promotion Law is difficult to stop. Although Article 7 expressly states rent concessions and lease term protection, the farmers present said that they had encountered Taiwan Sugar raising rents under the pretext of changing contracts, but the actual protection was limited.

Taiwan Sugar responded that there is indeed a need to review the lease of agricultural land, but Taiwan Sugar definitely does its best to assist green farmers and organic farmers. The Agriculture and Food Department said that the original purpose of the Organic Agriculture Promotion Law is to promote the development of organic agriculture, so there is not much mandatory content. At present, it has only been on the road for more than a year, and then it will first be matched with other existing laws to improve the situation.