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Operations

3 Case Study

Investing in Taiwan
Agricultural Global
Marketing Company

TaiwanICDF working with Taiwan Agricultural Global Marketing Co., Ltd. to share
our extensive experiences in overseas agricultural cooperatives.

The agriculture sector is closely overseas investments and exports of and friendly nations. Vice versa, as
related to the economic growth, materials. TAGM expands its foreign outreaches,
poverty alleviation and social the TaiwanICDF will have more
stability of a country. Agricultural Promoting assistance projects opportunities to participate in its
development and cooperation has through investment in the international operations, and share
always been considered an important private sector, sharing benefits, the resources and experiences
international development issue. resources and experiences accumulated in international agricultural
After the 2008 global food crisis, This national-level agriculture cooperation. This collaboration
international agricultural development company is founded with the missions will be mutually beneficial, allowing
and cooperation in recent years to develop a system of planned Taiwan’s agricultural sector to tap into
has grown beyond productivity production and an export-oriented international market trends and join
improvement and began to shift production and marketing system. efforts in international development.
its focus to the strengthening and TAGM was launched as part of Hence, from the viewpoint of
integration of agricultural value chains, Taiwan’s new agriculture policy and international cooperation and long-
including production, marketing, an agricultural cooperation platform term development, the TaiwanICDF
logistics, technology and equipment, for the New Southbound Policy. By decided to invest in TAGM. The private
information, and finance. This has investing in TAGM, the TaiwanICDF sector is a major force for economic
been done with the aim to effectively will be able to increase both the growth and prosperity in a free market
increase the value and effectiveness quantity and quality of agricultural economy, and investing in private
of agricultural products during products supplied to the market and sector companies can be one of the
commercialization and thereby fulfill fulfill the demand of our partners in means of development projects. The
consumer demand for both better the emerging markets for affordable TaiwanICDF has been dedicated
quantity and quality. and high-quality agricultural products to bilateral agricultural technical
To increase the income of farmers through the market mechanism and cooperation, education and training
and forge comprehensive domestic private business operation model. and lending activities. Now it goes
and international marketing channels In addition, TAGM will focus on further by investing in the private sector
for Taiwan agricultural sector’s overseas development, including to maximize the benefits and impact
production and marketing systems, establishment of a production- in the free market. This approach will
the Council of Agriculture set up the marketing supply value chain and link production with marketing, and
Taiwan Agricultural Global Marketing continuous export of high-quality help the private sectors in developing
Co., Ltd. (TAGM) on December 5, agricultural materials and machinery, countries improve their technical
2016 in response to President Tsai to enhance the technical capabilities and management capabilities. In
Ing-wen’s new agriculture policy. The and output of our partner nations addition, in a long-term prospect, the
establishment of this company aims to and promote technical upgrade in TAGM expects to establish overseas
ensure Taiwan’s sustainable agricultural the local communities. Participation marketing channels and bases,
development by promoting three core of the TaiwanICDF will assist TAGM realizing its future expansion.
tasks: agricultural product import to connect Taiwan’s experience in
and export, technology transfers and agricultural cooperation with allied

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