Page 49 - 2018 Annual Report Council of Agriculture, Executive Yuan

Annual Report 2018 Council of Agriculture, Executive Yuan In a broad-leaved plantation, shiitake and wood ear mushrooms are cultivated using Red Chinkapin and Mallotus thinning wood. raising,” “mountain litsea,” “Taiwan jewel orchid,” and “wood mushroom and fungus.” The Forestry Bureau has already promoted relaxation of land management rules, and in the future will set norms for inspecting operations, in order to promote use of forest land. In addition, the TFRI assisted the Forestry Bureau to guide the “Hualien Shuilian Forestry Cooperative” and the “Forest Farmers of Sanzhuku, Taitung” to develop the under-forest economy for cultivation of shiitake with wood logs. An estimated 30 metric tons of wood was used for shiitake cultivation. C. Promoting conformance of productive forest management with the norms of the Forest Stewardship Council In order to encourage eco-friendly, socially beneficial, and economically feasible sustainable forest management, the COA has pro-actively introduced Forestry Stewardship Council (FSC) norms into national forest management. We have developed technology for eco-friendly forestry operations, and in the future will promote a demonstration area and use this area for practical training. In addition, in order to continue to guide forest farmers to follow FSC norms, we have already nalized the “standards for subsidizing one-half of fees for forestry cooperatives to apply for certication from the FSC.” 47