The Legislative Yuan deliberated on the 112-year budget of the Council of Agriculture. Many legislators believed that the related cold chain and animal shelter programs needed to be strengthened, so they froze the relevant budgets and requested a review report before spending money.

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[Reporter Wu Baixuan/Taipei Report] The Council of Agriculture went to the Economic Committee of the Legislative Yuan to review the 112-year budget today (5th). In order to operate, freeze 30 million yuan out of the 35.2 billion yuan of the project "agricultural development", and require relevant reports to be submitted in the future before it can be used.

The Economic Committee of the Legislative Yuan is reviewing the 112th annual Council of Agriculture budget, including 35.233531 billion yuan for agricultural development projects, but 578 million yuan of which is to build a cold chain logistics and quality assurance demonstration system for agricultural products, which has been questioned by many members , the plan has been implemented since 110 years but failed to meet expectations, or faced with rising prices of raw materials, manufacturers abandoning bids, and only focusing on livestock meat, etc., have proposed to freeze.

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Legislator Chen Tingfei believes that the cold chain system is very important, but now it seems to be stuck; Legislator Lu Wenling also said that the production and construction of the cold chain are behind schedule; Legislator Kong Wenji mentioned that the alpine vegetables cannot be shipped out. Cold chain logistics must be used to take care of the aborigines.

In addition, in the budget related to agricultural development, there is also a 126 million yuan plan to improve government animal control and shelter facilities. Legislators have also proposed that some counties and cities have not reached consensus with local residents before planning, and there is a serious shortage of management manpower; such as Lu Wenling Emphasize that the public animal shelters are old, and related bids have changed locations several times, and animal welfare and breeding management must be strengthened.

In the face of many proposals, the Economic Committee of the Legislative Yuan decided today to freeze 30 million yuan of the above-mentioned 35.2 billion yuan budget. In the future, relevant reports will be made on the proposals of various committee members.

Another 1,318,113,000 yuan was included in the budget for agricultural management, but it includes animal husbandry management, international agricultural cooperation, and related biotechnology parks, etc. There are opinions, such as doubts that the Taiwan Orchid Biotechnology Park cannot make ends meet, orchids exported to the United States were returned to the United States, etc. , and China has banned the import of agricultural products from my country without warning for many times, and the export of agricultural products to the New Southbound has not grown significantly. Faced with many policies that need to be strengthened, the budget for this item will be frozen by 50 million yuan and reduced by 2 million yuan. The Council of Agriculture can only start spending after a written report.

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