Page 57 - 2018 Annual Report Council of Agriculture, Executive Yuan

Annual Report 2018 Council of Agriculture, Executive Yuan The cooperation between man and machine at the Taoyuan mechanized farming team, which does cultivation work for farmers, creates a labor-saving agricultural work environment. cultivation teams in the Taoyuan, Hsinchu, and Miaoli areas. We inventoried the industrial processes for tea, mixed staple crops, and vegetables and introduced needed agricultural machinery and operating models, and accompanied these steps with incentive measures for participation by farm labor. Through cooperation between man and machine the COA promoted the supply of mechanized cultivation services, creating an agricultural work environment with less need for labor. Over the course of 2018 we recruited 15 people who put in 1,588 man-days serving 20 farms and mechanically cultivating 274 hectares. The COA also constructed the Agricultural Human Resources platform and APP to serve as a database for the supply of and demand for agricultural labor, providing them to 458 users from 320 operational units to implement manpower matching and assignment. A total of 5,873 farms led over 30,000 labor requests, while 2,750 registered agricultural personnel were dispatched to jobs. Through the platform it was possible to do things like (i) verify whether the worker had started work or not; (ii) keep attendance records; and (iii) handle pay management, as the platform and APP provided digitized and mobile services. (8) Putting animal protection into practice A. Source management of dogs and cats As of the end of 2018, there were 115,598 newly registered dogs across the country, with the registration rate and 55