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Taiwan Dairy Farmers Association (TDFA)Taiwan Wax Apple Development Association (TWADA)

Member Sharing: New Farmer Program in Tainan

City

Presented by: Victoria Yang 6th GA, AFA, Bali, Indonesia, May 2014

Contents

11. Introduction. Introduction

4. Overview of New Farmers4. Overview of New Farmers

5.Future Planning and implementation5.Future Planning and implementation

6. Conclusion6. Conclusion

2.Vision and Approach2.Vision and Approach

3. Counseling System3. Counseling System

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Introduction

• New farmers program belongs to Tainan City Government, it is a flagship program in one of the top ten “new agriculture, new countryside, new farmers’ projects.

• Up to date, the program involves 268 people under 45 of age who are currently farmers or aspire to be farmers.

• In each FO’s extension unit, counseling information is provided for new farmers with sufficient information and case counseling.

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Reinvigorate agriculture and enhance the value of agriculture industryReinvigorate agriculture and enhance the value of agriculture industryVisionVision

GoalsGoals

Inspire New farmers, Activate Fallow LandSustainability of New Farming, Enhance CompetitivenessInnovation or Integration of cross-border operations, enhance industry value

Inspire New farmers, Activate Fallow LandSustainability of New Farming, Enhance CompetitivenessInnovation or Integration of cross-border operations, enhance industry value

ApproachApproach

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2.Vision and Approach

Targeting the object with recruitment plan and build

a new target farmers counseling roster

Construction of the new system to accompany the

new farmers counseling and advising farmers• Establishing counseling operation teams• Establishing new farmers’ counseling station

Targeting the object with recruitment plan and build

a new target farmers counseling roster

Construction of the new system to accompany the

new farmers counseling and advising farmers• Establishing counseling operation teams• Establishing new farmers’ counseling station

2.Vision and Approach

ApproachApproach

• Inviting experts from

research extension station and other

institutions to help solve related

problems.• Build up agricultural assistance to

strengthen counseling Intelligence

Design agriculture curriculum for new

farmers

Help stabilize agricultural products sales

channels • Help new farmers products promotion

and propaganda o• Counseling new farmers with contract

farming to enterprises

• Inviting experts from

research extension station and other

institutions to help solve related

problems.• Build up agricultural assistance to

strengthen counseling Intelligence

Design agriculture curriculum for new

farmers

Help stabilize agricultural products sales

channels • Help new farmers products promotion

and propaganda o• Counseling new farmers with contract

farming to enterprises

1. The relation figure

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3. Counseling System (1/2)

Council of AgricultureAgriculture and Food AgencyAgriculture Finance AuthorityNational Agriculture BankAgriculture Research Extension Station

Council of AgricultureAgriculture and Food AgencyAgriculture Finance AuthorityNational Agriculture BankAgriculture Research Extension Station

Agriculture Bureau of Tainan City Government

Agriculture Bureau of Tainan City Government

Agriculture Experts and Masters

Agriculture Experts and Masters

District Farmers Association

District Farmers Association

New FarmersNew Farmers

FFA

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AB of Tainan

M & E Counseling

Group

Counseling

Group

D FO

NABNAB

AG B

COA

ConsultantManagement, Processing, Development, Marketing, Finance, Mechanics

ConsultantManagement, Processing, Development, Marketing, Finance, Mechanics

1.Facilities and Equipment Grants2.Offering low interest loans3.Help obtain agriculture land

1.Facilities and Equipment Grants2.Offering low interest loans3.Help obtain agriculture land

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3. Counseling System(2/2)2. Structure of Counseling System

City FO

4. Overview of New Farmers(1/5)1. Total New Farmers in Tainan City: 268

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Gender Age

Full time vs Part time Education

4. Overview of New Farmers(2/5)

• 60% of full-time new farmers with < 5 years of farming

• 60% of farmers with farming land > 1ha ， 53% process the land ownership

• Crop types: Mostly vegetables and fruits secondly

• 40 % with earnings > NTD500,000• Within them, 37 farmers have

earnings > NTD1million• 44% with earnings 260,000~ 500,000

2. Full time New Farmers

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0.3 ↓甲21

11%

0.3-1甲54

29%1 ↑甲10960%

5年以上 7540%

3年以下79

41%

3-5年35

19%

100 ↑萬18

11%

25 ↓萬25

16%

51-100萬46

29%26-50萬

7244%

/收購契作26

11%

/拍賣行口10746%

/直銷宅配10043%

親友免費提供土地

218%

自有土地14053%

租用土地10239%

果樹65

28%

稻米28

12%雜糧24

10%

蔬菜10043%

其他177%

耕作面積作物種類

土地來源銷售管道務農年資務農年收入

• Mr. Don, 42 years old• Planting rice, cherry tomatoes,

jujubes, • Through Tainan City

Government, last year, his 2.5 ha organic ice was contracted with a construction corporative for the provision to the company’s employees’ consumption and gifts. • Mr. Wang, the young brother, 35

years old and his older brother on the right with 41 years of age.

• Planting cherry tomatoes• Former engineers before their

farming business.• The young brother has won the

reward of “National Healthy and Quality Facilities for cherry tomatoes competition” in the past two years.

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4. Overview of New Farmers(3/5)3. Part-time New Farmers

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果樹19

32%

稻米9

15%

雜糧8

13%

蔬菜21

35%

其他3

5%1甲以上

1224%

0.3 ↓甲18

37%

0.3-1甲19

39%

5 ↑年10

21%

3 ↓年25

53%3-5年12

26%

51-100萬3

9%

25 ↓萬20

57%

26-50萬12

34%

/收購契作9

17%

/拍賣行口23

45%

/直銷宅配20

38%

自有37

58%

租用16

25%

親友免費提供11

17%

耕作面積作物種類

土地來源銷售管道務農年資務農年收入

• 79 % of part-time new farmers with less than 5 years of farming experience. Their farming management is in the stage of exploring and growing.

• Most land scale is more than 1ha, 58% are possessing land ownership

• Crop type mostly vegetables, secondly fruits

• 43 of part time farmers with earning more than NTD250,000。

• Mr. Wu, part-time farmer, 43 years of age

• Growing cherry tomatoes and vegetables

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• Working in Uni-President Corporative.

• Aspiring to learn planting skills and agriculture production practices

• Aiming to grow organic, toxin-free agriculture produce.

4. Overview of New Farmers(4/5)4. Farming Millionaires

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果樹17

41%

稻米8

19%

蔬菜9

21%

其他5

12%

雜糧3

7%

0.3-1甲7

19%

1 ↑甲29

81%

3 ↓年7

19%

3-5年6

16%5 ↑年

2465%

/收購契作10

20%/拍賣行口

2345%

/直銷宅配18

35%

租用土地26

44% 自有土地33

56%

耕作面積作物種類

土地來源銷售管道務農年資

• 65% of farmers with more than 5 years of farming. Their farming management is in the stage of maturity.

• 81% owns the land more than 1ha• 56% possess land ownership.• Crop types mostly fruits and

secondly vegetables and paddy rice.

• Mr. Wang, 31 years old.• Growing Dragon Fruit on 6ha

land• Full-time farmer after

completing his education. • Working hard to learn

agriculture practices and become a new and innovative farmer.

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• Mr. Chen, 39 years old, second generation of farmer.

• Planting grains(Maize, Black Pea)，60ha

• Leader of grain production and marketing group

• Pioneer of small landlord and big tenant policy.

• Maize land scale grows from 23 ha in 2011 to 56 ha in 2013

• Mr. Lie, 37 years old, second generation of farming

• Planting mangoes of varieties, 2 ha of land area.

• Former sales manager of restaurant industry.

• Inherited mango farm from his father and start to love farming.

• Exporting mangoes overseas.16

• Mr. Chen, 26 year old, second generation farmer

• Planting melons on 1 ha land• Become farmer after military

service.• Planting balsam pear(bitter melon)• Providing fruit picking camp, also

work with biotech R & D corporative for bitter melon capsule and lozenge sales.

5.Future Planning and implementation

• Conduct ongoing training workshop - farmers School

• Operating counseling group - to accompany the system

• Promote trainee farm system

• Promote enterprise adoption deed for

• Build new farmers information website

• Seasonal product launch press conference

• Encourage new farmers to participate in the activation of fallow land

• The new record of outstanding experience and achievements farmers 17

6. Conclusion (1/3)• The face of an aging agricultural labor

structure, promote agricultural restructuring operations, encourage new farmers to participate in agriculture, focusing on agricultural construction work for the city government.

• After three years of promoting pragmatic, has been caused by the initial results.

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6. Conclusion (2/3)• In the future, we hope to continue to

recruit the youth to join and make use of the information for farming system adjustment and agriculture banking to activate fallow land.

6. Conclusion (3/3)

• Help new farmers to expand production scale agriculture, population aging and inadequate to solve the problems of agriculture, improve the city's agricultural competitiveness and create sustainable agriculture situation.