News and  Articles

2016

• Increase plant-breeding budget, lawmaker says   (1019)

• Premier pledges to promote organic farming (0827)

• Organic farming to be prioritized: COA  (0531)

• Taiwan Recalls Quaker Oats in Massive Glyphosate Clampdown   (0527)

• Group protests use of GM beans  (0519)

2015

• Non-GM crops increasingly popular in nation  (1229)

• Taiwan Bans GMOs in School Meals over Health Fears  (1214)

• New Organic Legislation developed by Taiwan authority (1203) Another draft  proposed three years ago by a NGO is available in traditonal Chinese: http://seed.agron.ntu.edu.tw/organic/draft-a.htm

• Taiwan’s Organic Agriculture Movemen  (0819)

• Taiwan FDA: Labeling Requirements for GMOs in Food  (0703)

• GMO wheat not allowed in Taiwan: TFDA (0417)

• Is Taiwan set to be a test bed for GM crops?  (0301)

2014

• Professor Kuo, Taiwan’s active anti-GMO professor  (0816)

• TFDA to tighten rules on GM tolerance thresholds  (0621)

• Experts call for a return to family farming model  (0421)

• Taiwan pass new GMO labeling law (0308)

• Legislature’s extra session concludes, food sanitation act passes third reading (01-29)

• Groups slam changes to food labeling regulations (01-27)

  2013

• Tests for pesticides in soybeans commence  (10-29)

• Watchdogs urge soybean herbicide residue testing (10-29)

• Taiwan probes cottonseed usage in feeds(10-27)

• Agriculture and Food Agency to release affordable frozen vegetables (09-18)

• Industrial farming causing obesity (09-02)

• Solving Taiwan’s pesticide problem (07-26)

• COA rewards farmers for fertilizer use  (07-20)

• Officials tally damages caused by typhoon (07-16)

• Farmers to suffer with free trade (07-09)

• Database of moth orchids to help prevent disputes (07-03)

• Millet Makes a Return to Taiwan (06-17)

• Taiwan Reviews U.S. Wheat Imports on GMO Concerns (05-31)

• Heavy rains cause NT$136 million in agricultural losses(05-27)

• Bureau eyes revitalizing agriculture(05-22)

• Anti-GM alliance calls for changes to school lunches  (05-08)

• Taiwan-funded agriculture program moves ahead on remote Marshall atoll (04-12)

• Ninety percent of soybeans genetically modified: experts (03-31)

• Black eggs and ripe guava lead Taiwan's tech revolution (03-29)

• China's Takeover of Taiwan's Vegetable Market (03-28)

• 'Rice Bomber' turns to water buffaloes to promote agriculture (02-20)

• Taiwan to export jujubes to Japan early next year (02-19)

• 8000 - 7000 BCE: The earliest known fabric is woven from hemp

• Farmers, activists protest against globalization (02-04)

2012

• Envoy sees niche for Hungary in Taiwan's health food market  (12-30)

• When youths take action (12-12)

• NARI makes first harvest from Gambia Fruit Test Planting Project  (12-06)

• Made in Taiwan: a food tour of Taipei (12-02)

• Taiwan, one of the top 8 agritourism destinations in the world  (11-15)

• Aboriginal village rebounds after going organic  (11-13)

• Taiwan remains greatest importer of South Korean apples  (11-13)

• Genetically-Engineered Angels Shown in Taipei, Taiwan (11-09)

• Gukeng's festival of coffee shows off Taiwan's brews (11-08)

• Taiwan funds St Lucia banana recovery plan (10-16)

• Yunlin to create 800 hectares of organic farmland within three years (10-10)

• Native plant species soon face extinction due to global warming (10-02)

• Learning from others’ food safety mistakes  (2012)

~2011

• GM Foods Implies Plenty Hidden Dangers, Scholar Urges to Enhance Taiwan's Agricultural Independence   (2011)

• The Road to Food Security (2011)

• Local wheat goods ready to hit shelves  (2011)

• Grass-roots food movement starts with Taiwanese wheat (2011)

• Pros and cons of introducing plant patent rights (2011)

• Government plant patent plan is facing opposition (2011)

• Clarion Call--Taiwan's Grain Revival (2011)

• ECFA will harm plant variety protection (2010)

• Collecting traditional farming wisdom (2010)

• Exclusive Plant Patents Taking Root (2010)

• The future of Taiwan's agriculture is organic (2007)

• Taiwan Business: Taiwan's Cautious Stance On Genetically Modified Foods (in the article, “patent” should read as “license to grow”) (2006-09)

Professor Emeritus Warren H.J. KUO
Seed Laboratory
Department of Agronomy
 National Taiwan University
Taipei 107, TAIWAN
whjkuo@ntu.edu.tw