Focus Taiwan
Date: 2019/09/05
By: Yang Su-min and Joseph Yeh

Taipei, Sept. 5 (CNA) Some 300 migrant workers will arrive in Taiwan over the next few weeks to take up agricultural jobs, as part of a government initiative to address a labor shortage in that sector, the Council of Agriculture (COA) said Thursday.

Among the first batch of migrant workers entering the country under the government initiative, 109 will be hired to work on dairy farms, a COA official said, adding that those workers will start arriving in late September once their applications have been approved by the Ministry of Labor (MOL).

Another 207 will start arriving at the beginning of October to take up work in various agricultural outreach organizations ahead of the harvest season, the official told CNA.

The efforts to employ migrant workers in the agricultural sector were initiated in May by the COA, shortly after the labor ministry revised its regulations to make such hiring possible.   [FULL  STORY]