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Mission and Vision The Mid-term Agricultural Program of the Council of Agriculture, Executive Yuan (2013-2016) I. Mission and Vision ONE: MISSION Agriculture sector is the basis for national economic development. The Council of Agriculture of Executive Yuan is the agency which is in charge of crop, forestry, fishery, and livestock industry’s development as well as the national food security affairs. Meanwhile, the policy of the Council also focuses our food security, environmental protection, and the promotion of the rural culture economic value. The ultimate goal is that we are going to establish a LOHAS agricultural rural area life. The other focus is on restructuring the current agriculture so that it can cope with the world economic trend. For this the main strategies are to strengthen the effectiveness of agribusiness management and the efficient utilization of natural resources to ensure the development of the sustainable agriculture of Taiwan. The Council of Agriculture will continue to promote the agriculture industry, along with the restructuring of agriculture resources in order to upgrade the farm sector’s competitiveness. At the same time, also put emphasis on integrating the related primary, secondary and the third industry together to innovate the agricultural policies. The final goal is to increase the value-chain value of agriculture. In addition to this, we are promoting the internationalization of agri-tourism as well as setting the food safety standard in order to comply with the international standard. In order to advance our agriculture ,we are going to use new information as well as green scientific technology to create new agricultural production environment and assist other developing countries to advance their agricultural technology in order to increase their food production by which way we also can increase our products export opportunities. The purpose to carry above- mentioned measures is to promote our agriculture toward green and the service-oriented development which we hope not only agriculture become a local industry also an international one. TWO: VISION To establish agriculture become a young, dynamic and highly competitive industry in order to increase farmer’s income and make Taiwan’s agriculture as a LOHAS model. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- II. The focus of the Mid-term Program ONE: FUTURE AGRICULTURAL SITUATION ANALYSIS Agriculture is a bio-based industry, also an industry the national people rely on living. The development, besides limited by natural environment, also is limited by social change as well as international economic system. Below is the analysis of this situation: (1) The international economy development directs toward the regional integration and the agricultural trade direct to further liberalization. Since the year 2002, Taiwan joined the World Trade Organization, since then our agricultural industry face further trade liberalization. And in East Asia Area now, the 「 Asian 十 1 」 trade network have been established. In addition to this, 「 the Trade Party Partnership(TPP) 」 proposed by New Zealand and Singapore also under negotiating, under the Program, besides certain few items can keep their current tariff, all the products tariff should be reduced to 0% in the year 2015. This is a more trade liberalization agreement already attractive most of the countries attention. Taiwan and China signed a 「 Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement(ECFA) 」 in the year of 2010, the purpose of the agreement is intending the Taiwan’s international participation. Regardless the uncertainty between Taiwan and China currently still existence, China already become the second economic entity of the world in the year of 2010. As a result, the bilateral trade is becoming necessary at this time. Since we faced with the internationalization of the trade is unavoidable, the agricultural sector sincerely will face strong challenges in the future, at the same time, in the area of bilateral agricultural cooperation and competitiveness, how to take properly of the advantage of our geographic location and the ECFA to our benefit as well as use China’s position on world economic position is also our main concern. (2) Climate change dramatically which threaten our food security Based on IPCC(Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) of United Nation at the 4th evaluation report estimated, during the past 100 years, the earth temperature rise 0.74 ℃ annually in average. The rising trend is continuing, and unfortunately, rising more quickly than the last 100 years. The rise of earth temperature surely will drive the sea level rising also and making the earth climate change even more dramatically and more difficult to predict. According to our Central Weather Bureau estimate, from the year of 1897 through 2008, Taiwan’s plain area temperature rise by 1.2 ℃ which means the isotherm of years move northward about 100 km, and the sea surface temperature has risen about by 1 ℃ and rise by stepwise way. These dramatic climate changes will affect the agricultural production, at the same time increase the damage of agriculture. In the year of 2010, Taiwan’s food sufficient rate was 31.7% (counted by calories), the main food products include rice, vegetables, fruits, meats and fishes, their sufficient rate are above 80%. But wheat, corn used as animal feed and soybean, those grains rely heavily on importation. In order to comply with the climate dramatically change as well as the price of these products increase, how to design a food security scheme to ensure the food security and stability is very important. In addition to this, owing to the degrade of agricultural natural resources because of the climate change, how to keep it productive, sustainably reduce the impact of it in order to provide sustainable production environment for the agriculture to produce our needed products become a challenging issue for us, too. (3) Agricultural new technology and its related technology progressed rapidly. Agricultural technology innovation is the engine for agriculture further development. Using the knowledge as the main agricultural technology developmental instrument and apply this new technology which includes bio-technology, IT technology etc. in agricultural production is universally adapted in every country. In addition, most of the countries also emphasis on appropriate IPR management in order to protect the benefit bring by their technology development. In the year of 2010, the total production value of agri-biotechnology had reached 29.1 billion dollars, from this figure we can understand that the bio-technology play a very important role in agriculture. On the other side, information technology and internet advancement establish an international community, it impacts individual person; organizations, countries as well as the whole world dramatically. Integration of different industries which include industry as well as the service industry and the whole system of a country will be a character of future agricultural industry ; no doubt we can use the resources much more efficient. This is the unavoidable trend and which also we can increase our agricultural competitiveness. (4) The consumer changes their food consumption style and food safety become more important in the future. The whole world food consumption has been heavily affected by the development of developing and emerging countries’ per capita income and population increase. The food demand increase dramatically, t he needed main staple food products transform from raw products to highly processed, well-prepared or fast- served products. Accordingly, the demand of farm products diversifies greatly, and the consumers focus on the products’ quality as well as its safety. As for the domestic food consumption, in the year of 2010, our people’s per capita food consumption, in terms of calories, was 2,697 calories. Whereas, our Department of Health suggested that, for the people who work moderately, the appropriately needed quantity is 2,200 calories. The per capita consumption is 1.2 times of the suggested consumption quantity. The food consumption actually had not complied the government- set standard. According to the Council of Economic Planning and Development’s estimate report which based on our population growth, at the year of 2017, the total population above 65 years old will occupy more than 14%. Taiwan will be going into aged-society, and at the year of 2025, this ratio will rise to 20%. The society population structure will skid toward aged-population, and this situation, in addition to the decrease young population will also affect food consumption pattern greatly. TWO: THE MAIN POLICIES IN THE NEXT FOUR YEARS Agriculture is the basic industry of a country. Faced with highly trade liberation, dramatic climate change, natural resources limitation, farm products unstable supply as well as the shortage of its marketing channels, we are now urgently to improve these disadvantages. At the same time, the industry also face aged producers so that government should work out the measures to attractive more young people to get involved in this business in order to accelerate the structure change, increase the production efficiency, activate the resources utilization to achieve the objective of sustainable agricultural development. In the future, COA will follow the Executive Yuan’s policy instruction “ increasing people’s wealth and let the people feel secure “, base on focusing health, efficiency as well as sustainability
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