Page 64 - 2018 Annual Report Council of Agriculture, Executive Yuan

Collective Innovation Sustainable Management Unit 2: Building Agricultural Models The opening ceremony for the Hualien District “Agricultural Products Value-Added Prototyping Center.” (5) Creating “Agricultural Products Value-Added Prototyping Centers” With the aim of making Taiwan agriculture a “sixth industry” (incorporating aspects of primary, secondary, and tertiary industries), assisting local small farmers in doing preliminary processing of their agriproducts, and increasing the value-added of agriproducts, the COA has created “Agricultural Products Value- Added Prototyping Centers” at the District Agricultural Research and Extension Stations in Tainan, Kaohsiung, Taitung, and Hualien. These will assist small farmers by providing expert consultation and training, as well as prototype testing and market evaluations for dried, milled, roasted, and ground agriproducts, thereby developing high-quality and safe processed agriproducts. In 2018 the COA held two lectures in a series on agriproduct value- added, with 195 people attending. The Hualien Agricultural Products Value-Added Prototyping Center went into operation on December 8, 2018, and offered guidance and education services 187 man-times and technical consultation services in a total of 61 cases, involving 134 man-times. (6) Providing integrated services for agricultural digital information A. Making agricultural information available to the public To raise the transparency level of government administration, the COA has continued to collect, collate, and release information to the public, providing it for non-governmental interface applications. By the end of 2017, the COA had provided 10 million pieces of information in 1,300 categories. We also developed and established 20 Open APIs, to facilitate 62