October
1. The election of the ten outstanding production and marketing groups was organized.
2. An activity for value-chain businessmen to visit the producers of traceable agri-products was arranged.
3. A platform for marketing gluts of agri-products was set up. Whenever supply of certain high-quality agri-products exceeds demand, information on discounted sales will be communicated through this platform for accepting bulk orders.
4. The revision of “the guidance on procurement of rough rice damaged by natural disasters” was announced.
5. The “Q&A manual on the application for establishing leisure farms” was prepared to facilitate the administrators and business persons in obtaining registration certificates.
6. A charity activity was organized to distribute domestically-produced fresh milk freely to the needed children.
7. An activity for school children to experience growing rice was organized.
8. The first Taiwan-Okinawa technology exchange meeting took place.
9. A fair on rice-based food products was organized.
10. The COA was temporarily put in charge of the credit department of Da-pu Township Farmers’ Association, Chiayi County.
11. The Taiwan delegation attended the consultation meeting on a free trade agreement between Taiwan and Dominican Republic.
12. The Taiwan delegation attended the 2nd regular meeting of the Technology and Compliance Committee of the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission.
13. An agreement on the quarantine procedure for exporting Taiwan’s lychee to Chile was signed between Taiwan and Chile.
14. The Southern Taiwan Agricultural Biotechnology Exhibition was conducted.
15. A load of 5,000 tons of milled rice was shipped to Lao PDR as humanitarian aid.