Page 68 - 2018 Annual Report Council of Agriculture, Executive Yuan

Collective Innovation Sustainable Management Unit 2: Building Agricultural Models C. Modernization of agricultural information In order to provide citizens with rapidly accessible information on fruit and vegetable production and sales data, the COA expanded two functions of the “fruit and vegetable production-and-marketing information integrated searchable platform”: (i) statistical charts on exports and (ii) special columns analyzing production-and-marketing data. We also added statistical charts on imports for 10 major fruits and vegetables. In these ways we provided citizens with more complete information services. In addition, using diversified distribution channels and the mobile phone APP “Field-Side Assistance,” the COA, on its own initiative, sent out personalized agricultural information (such as information on fruit and vegetable transactions, the agricultural situation, and plant diseases), providing this service over two million man-times. Moreover, each day, through electronic bulletin boards, we used methods such as audio-visual, picture cards, and electronic scrolling text to transmit information to the operations ofces of farmers’ and fishermen’s associations at all levels, to farmers’ service centers, and to supermarkets and other locations. This service supplies information on matters such as important agricultural policies and measures, real-time weather reporting for agriculture, production and marketing, and farmers’ welfare. In order to improve the efficiency of agricultural work, the COA developed the “Farm Production Management System” fieldwork mobile management system, and pro-actively promoted it for use by agribusinesses and farm households. In 2018 this system incorporated a total of 5,281 farms, with 6,679 users, with the managed area of cultivated land reaching 20,204 hectares, effectively increasing farmers’ competitiveness. In order to promote the application of information technology to pig husbandry, we also developed the “Pig Farm Production Management System,” which provides services including real-time work records and reminders of irregularities, and which can also produce multiple data analysis, in order to give Taiwan pig farm operators a convenient and efcient management tool. The “crop disaster early warning system,” which officially went online in May of 2018, integrates meteorological, disaster, and crop-related information and provides real-time observation data from agrimeteorological stations, data on the incidence of agricultural disasters and disaster hotspots, sophisticated weather forecasts for important crop-producing areas, a calendar for disaster-prevention cultivation of 35 major crops, and all kinds of agricultural disaster prevention techniques and technologies, to allow 66