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Annual Report 2018 Council of Agriculture, Executive Yuan (b) The COA adjusted the amounts for natural disaster cash relief, and linked cultivation registration with (i) cash relief and (ii) production and sales adjustment measures (like processing or clearance measures), so that cultivators registered with the government could get priority access to assistance. (c) The COA also linked cultivation registration with food and agriculture policies or measures in order to change farmers’ behavior and increase their risk awareness. C. Adjusting the tariff rate quota (TRQ) system: The COA adjusted TRQs for imports at certain periods of time, to avoid domestic production seasons, and divided them into TRQs for individual tariff numbered accounts, in order to uphold the rights and interests of domestic farmers. D. Development and use of more diversified processing: The COA raised the percentage of agriproducts that get processed, and increased economies of scale at regional agriproduct processing centers. E. Founding of flagship logistics centers and regional cold-chain systems: The COA established three agship logistics centers and eight regional cold-chain facilities. F. Use of non-governmental resources to establish a stabilization mechanism for production and sales of food and agricultural products. G. Upgrading export competitiveness: This included market diversification, development of export sales channels, and reversing existing tariff inequality. H. Adjustment of market structure and sales channels: The COA upheld fairness of market transactions, used policy tools to ensure that markets for specified agriproducts did not become monopolized by a few actors, and changed existing agriproduct transportation and marketing patterns by establishing cold-chain systems, e-commerce platforms, and industrial strategic alliances. To stabilize agriproduct prices, the COA guided farmers’ groups to develop collective transportation and sales, direct sales, and online sales of their products. We also promoted the sale of 11,382 metric tons of domestic agriproducts such as cabbage, bananas, dragon fruit, guava, wendan pomelos, and tangerines (i) for military non-staple foods and prison catering, and (ii) through the Hope Plaza Farmers’ Market, electronic emporiums (with home delivery), the supermarkets of farmers’ associations, and hypermarkets. In addition, the COA also worked with municipal, city, and county governments to subsidize fees for things like product concentration, transportation, and post- harvest handling (at the production end) as well as processing (at the processing end), to encourage processors to expand 125