Transcript Member Economy Voluntary Reports—Chinese Taipei

The Current Status and Strategies
on Food Losses in Chinese Taipei
Chao-Hsing HUANG
Deputy Director
Agriculture and Food Agency
Council of Agriculture
August, 2013
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Contents
 Current
Status
 Challenges
 Policies and Strategies
 Suggestions for APEC Cooperation
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Current Status-1/4
Size: 3,618,995 ha (2012)
plain region (27.12%)
hilly & mountain region (72.88%)
Cultivated Land Area: 802,876 ha(22%)
paddy field: 399,432 ha
upland field: 403,444 ha
Rice area: 260,000ha
Average Farm Size: 1 ha (2011).
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Current Status- 2/4
3,000
50%
45%
Post-harvest Food Losses in 2011
40%
35%
2,500
30%
25%
20%
2,000
1,500
Losses(%)
Production (1,000 MT)
3,500
15%
10%
1,000
500
0
5%
0%
Rice
Sweet
Potato
Vegetables
Fruits
Production
1347.8
205.5
2556.2
3034.7
Losses(%)
1%
2.70%
10.80%
11.20%
Source：COA/ Food supply and utilization yearbook 2011
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Current Status - 3/4
precipitation (mm)
Avg. monthly rainfall variation
Source: Taiwan CWB
5~10 typhoons hitting
1st crop (63%)
Harvest
Transplant
Harvest
Transplant
Rice calendar
2nd crop (37%)
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Current Status - 4/4
Estimated loss of rice production due to natural disasters
Unit: NT$ Billion
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Year
Paddy damaged
loss (A)
Paddy
production
Value (B)
A/B
(%)
2008
2.62
31.36
8.34
2009
1.07
33.78
3.17
2010
0.54
30.36
1.78
2011
0.18
38.15
0.48
2012
0.45
39.75
1.13
Source: Agriculture and food Agency, COA
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Challenges on rice
Shortage of drying capacity while typhoon coming
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Strategies on rice
Enhance drying capacity
Two-stage drying
Allocate and transport
fresh/wet paddy to
elsewhere the dryer
capacity is available
Build regional dryer center
& related facilities in
needed regions
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Challenges on Vegetables & Fruits
Maintain freshness in storage and logistic stages
Reduce the volume of unsalable fruits and
vegetables in market
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Strategies on Vegetables & Fruits
Cold chain
system
Shorten
transport
process
Diversified
marketing
channels
Reduce Food Losses
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Suggestions for APEC Cooperation
II
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Identifying Key Issues
and challenges and
deliberating on the
strategies and action
plans of cooperation
among APEC
economies
Convene annual
seminar in each year
with different themes
of post-harvest
losses and food
wastes issues
occurred on the food
consumption to share
experience among
APEC economies
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