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March

1. The COA selected Phalaenopsis orchid, Oolong tea, Taiwan tilapia, and mango as "Taiwan's Quality Agricultural Products" and as main export products.

2. The COA held the 8th Asia-Pacific Orchid Conference and Orchid Show.

3.The COA drawn up the agricultural product export incentive regulations.

4. The COA provided NT$160 million loans for recreational farms, and increased the credit line for farming experience-type and general recreational farms.

5. The COA added the provision that farmers' and fishermen's grandparents may apply scholarships for their grandchildren, if certain conditions are met and that grandchildren and grandparents live together and share living arrangements.

6. The COA revised and softened the terms of various special agricultural policy-type loans such as debtor, purpose, credit line, and period.

7. The COA revised Article 15 of the "District Fishermen Association Member Qualification Review and Judgment Regulations."

8. The COA revised the "Farmers' Association Evaluation Regulations."

9. The COA revised the "Council of Agriculture, Executive Yuan, Scientific and Technological Research and Development Results Ownership and Utilization Regulations."

10. The COA specified that farm-raised ostriches are considered poultry, and raisers of over 20 ostriches must register with the COA as livestock farms.

11. The COA declared the Canadian Province of British Columbia to be a high pathogenic birds flue infected area and prohibited the import of poultry, birds, and relevant products from British Columbia. The COA declared Panama to be a high pathogenic birds flue and Newcastle disease free country, and declared Germany to be a high pathogenic birds flue free country.

12. The COA monitored the dog foods manufactured by a certain manufacturer suspected of causing kidney failure in dogs to ensure that these dog foods did not appear on the market.

13. The COA implemented the Quality Taiwan - Domestic Poultry Product Promotion Activity.

14. The COA held a thousand-people, tree-planting activity.

15. The COA revised the "Regulations and Explanatory Notes for Fishing Boats and Catch Transport Boats Engaged in the Atlantic Tuna and Billfish Fisheries."

16. The COA approved the "Farmland Release Principles and Methods" to replace the existing farmland release program.