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Focus 1

Integrating agriculture and technology

o cope with the issues of extreme traceability system, encourage Systems in Central America Project
Tweather, growing population consumers to purchase produce. was carried out in the Central
and aging farming workforce, there More importantly, the use of American partner countries of
is an urgent need for fresh thinking technology on the management Nicaragua, Honduras and El
and innovative technology in the side will not only improve farmers’ Salvador as a program introducing
development of world agriculture, or agribusiness owners’ decision- a regional GIS. By providing and
so that resources can be integrated making quality and risk management analyzing satellite imagery and
to meet the challenge of bolstering capabilities, it will also help the change information, the project
agriculture on a global scale. government to manage natural trained GIS technicians to assist
For this reason, Taiwan is moving resources, prevent and adapt to partner countries get a good grasp
towards the vision of “Agriculture natural disasters and formulate of changes in national land and
4.0” with smart technology. On the industry-friendly public policy. strengthened the environmental
existing bases of biotechnology, management of protected areas or
infor mation technology and Accelerating innovation in the key monitored regions.
automatic systems, use of sensors, partnership model In the Vegetable, Fruit and
the Internet of Things, big data Broadening project impact Upland Crop Quality and Safety
analysis and smart devices will This year, the TaiwanICDF Improvement Project in St. Kitts and
help the agricultural industry raise promoted projects along the Nevis, the GIS system was also
competitiveness. trend of technological innovation used in the fields where position
On the production side, in agriculture. For example, coordinates and field management
integrating agriculture and the Strengthening Incubator information were combined with soil
technology makes it possible to Agribusiness with Human Resources analysis data, so that the soil data
create optimal growing environment Development in Bandung Project in within the borders can be turned
and increase the efficiency of capital Indonesia introduced Taiwan’s smart into images and become reference
and material investments. On the greenhouse environmental control points for the government in drafting
processing side, it can simplify system, which uses automation agricultural policy.
storage and logistics, reduce food in controlling the cultivation Integrating Taiwan’s latest
spoilage and transportation costs. environment of agricultural crops to technology and moving ahead
On the retail end, it can promote links increase Indonesia’s competitiveness with the times to utilize it in foreign
between production and sales, help in the fruit and vegetable market. In assistance work not only helps to
producers access a mainstream the Caribbean partner country of St. transform the agricultural sector of
platform or get a foot into a niche Lucia, the Banana Black Sigatoka our allied and friendly countries,
market or, by means of a production Disease Prevention and Treatment strengthen the management of
Project set up disease indexes with agricultural operations, improve the
the help of ICT technology, created quality and quantity of agricultural
linked data banks that allow field products, ensure farmers’ livelihood
data to be sent to a monitoring center and achieve results twice as fast
which then issues disease control with half the effort; it also accelerates
suggestions to banana farmers. innovation in the partnership model
Through feedback data monitoring, and expands project impact,
information can be relayed to farmers demonstrating Taiwan’s solid
two weeks earlier, allowing them to strengths in agriculture and sharing
deal with the disease effectively. the fruit of technology with partner
The Capability Enhancement countries.
in Using Geographic Information

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