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Annual Report 2018 Council of Agriculture, Executive Yuan to promote “happy farmers, safe agriculture, and prosperous villages.” We provided concrete examples of the results of policy implementation by the COA, including (i) the holding of the 6th National Agriculture Congress, (ii) reform of irrigation associations, (iii) trial implementation of farmers’ occupational injury insurance, (iv) direct payments on farmland, (v) expansion of eligibility for participation in farmers’ health insurance, (vi) natural disaster insurance for specified crops, (vii) establishing of agricultural labor teams and mechanized farming teams to deal with the rural labor shortage, (viii) promoting the Big agricultural labor. Granary Project, (ix) subsidizing organic and eco-friendly farming, (x) halting of vaccinations for foot-and-mouth disease, (xi) the all-out effort to prevent African swine fever from entering Taiwan, (xii) eradication of the H5N6 and H5N8 avian influenza subtypes, and (xiii) upgrading of competitiveness of the livestock and poultry industries. A press conference on results of policies to compensate for the shortage of 119