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Future Prospect

he AFA will continue to incorporate the spirit of environmental sustainability to provide
Tsafe and quality agricultural food products. On the production side, the AFA will
encourage farmers to adopt a farming model that respects the ecology and maintains
sustainable resources, such as providing guidance on rational fertilization, finding the balance
between farmers' rights to fertilizer use and environmental friendliness and expanding the
promotion of TAP and organic certification by setting up large-area zones and promotion
areas. In addition, in order to reduce the carbon footprint and encourage implementing the
model of the Local Production Local Consumption, the AFA promotes the use of domestically
produced food ingredients with the Three Labels and One QR Code in school lunches to lead
domestic agriculture to a more sustainable path.

In the part of expanding foreign markets, the AFA takes measures including counseling
on the installation of agricultural machinery, facilities (equipment) acquisition, improving
operational efficiency, enhancing post-harvest techniques, strengthening the cold chain
system, improving packaging and container loading, the use of technological equipment
to record the temperature monitoring of the storage and transportation process, improving
the arrival quality of exported products and increasing their shelf life, strengthening
the international brand image of Taiwan agricultural products and enhancing their
competitiveness.

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