Page 105 - 2018 Annual Report Council of Agriculture, Executive Yuan

Annual Report 2018 Council of Agriculture, Executive Yuan Channels for Domestic and Foreign Sales of Agriproducts (1) Upgrading the quality of agriproducts In order to stabilize production and sales of fruit and upgrade quality, in 2018 the COA guided the “Queen Xin Fruit and Vegetable Production Cooperation” of Changhua County and the “Greenland Farmers’ Cooperative” in Pingtung County to establish large-scale product concentration and distribution sites that meet standards for fruit sanitation and inspection and quarantine. We also (i) subsidized fruit production-and-marketing groups, farmers’ The installation of large-scale packaging machinery at this product handling and concentration center raised efficiency. associations, cooperatives, and large-scale product concentration and distribution sites to install 2,466 square meters of cold storage facilities and (ii) subsidized three mobile cold storage containers, creating a complete cold chain for fruit. In order to improve sanitation and safety in the sheries product supply chain, the Fisheries Agency of the COA continued to guide fish markets to improve their equipment and their standard operating procedures in order to upgrade the quality and sanitation of sheries products from the source and ensure the competitiveness of Taiwan’s sheries products in the domestic and international markets. In 2018 we completed improvement of the environment at nine fish markets and guided two fish markets to implement the “catch shall not touch the ground” policy. The building of frozen storage shipping containers created a complete cold-chain transport system. 103