1. Promulgated the Guidelines for Encouraging Deep Sea Fishing Vessels to Take Measures to Increase Competitiveness of the Industry

2. Revised guidelines and regulations governing monitoring systems on long-liners between 20-100 tons and trawlers over 100 tons

3. Promulgated procedures for evaluation and verification of sweet potato seedling and seed potato diseases

4. Promulgated Regulations for Authorizing the Applications of Manufacture and Imports of Non-licensed Agro-pesticides

5. Repealed the Guidelines for Processing Production Declarations and Warnings for Important Livestock Products

6. Revised Article 5 of Criteria for Granting Credit and Establishing Credit Limits by the Credit Departments of Farmers’ and Fishermen’s Associations to Sponsoring Members and Non-Members and revised Article 4 of the Regulations Governing Risk Management Ratios for the Credit Departments of Farmers’ and Fishermen’s Associations

7. Reduced prices for four types of agricultural fertilizer

8. Held the 2009 Shennong and Model Farmer awards ceremony

9. Eric Altbach, Deputy Assistant USTR for China Affairs at Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, met with the COA on April 2, 2009 to discuss agricultural trade between Taiwan and the United States