1. Measures to help dairy farmers in 2025

The Ministry of Agriculture is launching a series of measures to boost the demand for Taiwan-produced fresh milk to minimize the impact of the removal of tariffs on dairy products imported from New Zealand from 2025. At a joint meeting of four legislative committees yesterday, Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Legislator Lee De-wei asked Acting Minister of Agriculture Chen Junne-jih how the policy would affect the domestic fresh milk market. The agricultural industry is redesigning the label for Taiwan-produced fresh milk and has developed the technology to identify any mixture of domestically produced milk and imported milk, Chen said.

2. Taiwanese bananas delight Japanese students in school lunches

In a flavorful initiative aimed at cultivating a taste for Taiwanese fruits in Japan, Taiwan's Agricultural and Food Administration (AFA), Ministry of Agriculture, entered into a "Memorandum of Cooperation on Strengthening Food and Cultural Development and Exchanges" with Kasama City in Ibaraki Prefecture on July 24, 2019. The AFA has been supplying bananas, pineapples and mangos as lunch fruits to primary and secondary school children in Kasama. on July. Furthermore, it will again supply safe and high-quality Taiwanese bananas certified by the Traceable Agricultural Products (TAP) system to 18 schools in the city on December.