Page 110 - 2018 Annual Report Council of Agriculture, Executive Yuan

Collective Singing The Harvest Song Unit 4: Marketing Agricultural Products and Communicating Rural Policies 3. Raising Value-Added in Agriculture (1) Promoting regional agricultural processing centers A. Establishing regional agriproduct processing centers The COA guided the Chia Luh Fruits and Vegetables Produce Cooperative and the Taitung District Farmers’ Association to set up two regional agriproduct processing centers, bringing together farmers, agricultural production-and-marketing groups, and farmers’ organizations to Processing of frozen broccoli by the Chia Luh Fruits and Vegetables Produce Cooperative. expand contract production. A total of 820 farmers participated, doing contract production over 243 hectares of land, and producing about 2,500 metric tons of raw materials for processing. Besides assisting regional processing centers in getting ISO22000 certification and bringing them in line with Good Hygienic Practices, the COA improved processing facilities (or equipment) and added refrigerated warehouses (freezers) to raise production capacity and efciency and raise storage capacity, thereby strengthening OEM and processing capabilities. We also introduced Traceable Agricultural Products (TAP) and organic The egg washing and grading process: Eggs are automatically drawn from plastic egg trays onto the conveyor belt of the washing and grading machine. The food processing plant of the Taitung District Farmers’ Association. Processed turmeric powder and roselle from the processing plant of the Taitung District Farmers’ Association. 108