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varieties of soybeans, wheat, feed corn, and paddy rice suitable for crop rotation and for adjusted production time periods, which can be used for rotation between wet and dry fields, thereby reducing the amount of irrigation water used. The COA also completed evaluations of the impact of continuous cropping, conventional farming, and rotation between organic paddy rice and soybeans on carbon emissions.
The Seed Improvement and Propagation Station of the COA continued to produce seeds for MSCs such as feed corn and sorghum. In 2019 the Station supplied a total of 69,000 kilograms (kg) of feed corn seeds and 1,700 kg of sorghum seeds, as well as processed and stored 7,500 kg of soybean seeds and 172,000 kg of wheat seeds. In conformance with the COA’s policy of promoting cultivation of import-substitution crops, in 2019 a total of 5,150 hectares of land were cultivated with feed corn and other MSCs. All these measures have created conditions to facilitate the production of domestic MSCs.
(6) Using traceable domestically produced ingredients in nutritious school lunches and non-staple foods for the military
A.In order to achieve the goal of using traceable ingredients in schools, in 2017
Developing multiple products processed from mixed staple crops can increase their value-added.
Annual Report 2019 Council of Agriculture, Executive Yuan
the Executive Yuan began promoting a policy of using domestically produced traceable ingredients in school lunches. This policy began to be implemented in all cities and counties in the country starting in the first semester of the 2018 academic year. As of December of 2019, the proportion of registered lunch ingredients used in 22 cities and counties across Taiwan that had traceability labels was 59.4%. Strategies for promoting this policy included the following:
(a) The COA finalized the "Implementing Directions for Subsidies from Central to Local Governments to Promote the Use of Domestically Produced Traceable Fresh Ingredients in School Lunch," which served as the basis for dealing with the increased costs of purchasing domestic traceable ingredients.
(b) The COA guided the National Fishermen’s Association and the Ziguan District Fishermen’s Association to provide seafood products meeting the "Three Labels and One QR Code" standard. Because of the high unit cost of seafood and the many small bones in it, schools served seafood relatively infrequently. Therefore the COA specially invited key players including school lunch directors, institutional catering business operators, and representatives of parents’ associations to visit seafood production areas to better understand fishing community culture and the fisheries production process, in order to build
A board game about domestic mixed staple crops was designed to promote citizens’ acceptance of mixed staple crops grown locally in Taiwan.
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