Taiwan News
Date: 2016-09-24
By: Sophia Yang, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

A two-day forum took place from Friday to Saturday in Kaohsiung with an attendance of 2,600 people and was set to hammer out solutions to boost local agribusiness and farm produce safety. At the forum, Taiwan’s Council of Agriculture (COA) Deputy Minister Chen Chi-chung unveiled a plan to promote agricultural insurance to minimize crop losses from natural disasters, especially typhoons.

Super-typhoon Meranti battered Southern Taiwan last week and caused total losses to fisheries and agriculture estimated at more than NT$685 million (US$22 million). Taitung County and Kaohsiung suffered the most from the typhoon.     [FULL  STORY]