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New Agriculture National Defense

Policy Focus Policy Focus

The agricultural sector in Taiwan is faced with internal The procurement of defense equipment and the
and external challenges from climate change, upgrading and renewed domestic market will
international trade liberalization, labor shortages and drive the shipbuilding, aerospace and information
an aging farming population, and a rigid agricultural security industries as well as peripheral machinery,
industry structure, in addition to dealing with greater materials, electrical engineering and other related
public concern for food safety, consumer protections, manufacturers to invest in state-of-the-art research
environmental sustainability, among other issues. The and development. This will achieve the goal of
Council of Agriculture has promoted the New Agriculture technological innovation and help manufacturers to
Innovation Promotion Program since 2017, making grow.
continual progress on all agricultural policies with the aim
of enhancing farmers' incomes and supplying consumers Government leads the development of the
with safe agricultural products as core objectives. defense industry: To promote exchange and
Using the three major axis of government policies to cooperation between Taiwanese manufacturers
establish a comprehensive farmer welfare system, and international enterprises in the defense
create a sound foundational environment and improve industry, and to help manufacturers jointly explore
the competitiveness of the industry, the government will the development opportunities offered by Taiwan's
accelerate industry structural upgrading, raise the added- defense industry, combined with the government§s
value of agricultural products, expand domestic and self-reliance defense policies to meet the needs of
overseas sales, increase farmer benefits in pursuit of national defense through the joint development of
sustainable agricultural development. the defense industry.
Promote development of defense industry clusters:
Investment Opportunities aerospace industry clusters in Taichung, Kaohsiung
and Taoyuan; navy vessel industry clusters in
The Ministry of Agriculture has established the Kaohsiung, Pingtung, and Yilan; and an information
Agricultural Technology Park in southern Taiwan security industry cluster in Shalun, Tainan.
to promote new agriculture development. Phase I
construction of the park on 233 hectares of land includes Promotion of projects: The government is in
90 biomedical standard plants, 90% of which have the midst of planning a defense industry policy
already been leased out. Phase II construction of the and phase VI of the National Information and
park on another 165 hectares started in 2021. Since Communications Security Development Program,
2021, agribusinesses have been invited to invest and which will rely on the self-production, procurement,
move into the park and over 30% of the units have been and upgrading of defensive weapons and
leased out. equipment to stimulate the development of civilian
industrial technologies and supply chains in the
The Agricultural Biotechnology Park provides convenient fields of aerospace, naval vessels, and information
one-stop services for quarantine, inspection, customs security.
clearance, logistics and transshipment. The 165 hectares
of land in the second-phase construction has been
subdivided into a square and complete plant area,
satisfying the land use needs of plants ranging from 0.7
to 10 hectares in size. With master pipelines planned for
public facilities, land for agriculture/aquaculture research
laboratories, logistics centers, newly established water
tanks, reservoirs, natural gas rectifier station, and
facilities for wastewater treatment services. The park is
fully equipped and, in terms of land, hydroelectric power,
and waste treatment facilities, is the best place for all
investors (agricultural companies) to invest in a plant
and efficiently connecting with Taiwan's rich academic
research and upstream/downstream agricultural industrial
chains to enhance international market competitiveness.

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