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retired Servicemen (1980ä1981). As a senior specialist for one year. I completed four

reports related to the agriculture background of the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia and
Saudi Arabia. As a reference informations for investment or cooperation. I got an excellent
evalvation and 91 grades. That was a big job for me, I spent a lot of my own times to collect
the informations, and completed by myself.

There was an Agriculture Bureau established in 1980, One of the creators Mr. Cheng invited
me to be a section chief and was in charged with rice production and rice field diversion,
upland crops guaranty purchasing (corn, sorghum etc.).
The Agriculture Bureau was reorganized to the Council of Agriculture (COA) on July 1,

1984. Then I transfered to COA until july 16, 1997. I worked there for 13 years, during those
times, how to take the challenge in the face of GATT (General Agreement on Tariffs and
Trade) was a big problem for us. Under the provisions of GATT: dealing with customs trans
for . Reduction from zero to 30%).

In Taiwan, the average area per farmer is less than one hectare and distributed to different
places in some pieces. But in Australia & U.S.A. Their farmers always have a big farm more
than 100 hectares and concentrated in one piece. They can use the Airplane to distribute the
seeds & fertilizers, cultivating with tractors and harvesting by combines. Their costs are

more less than us. If we opend the staple food, market
such as rice for them, all of our paddies must be idled,
and push the farmers into a blind alley. There are a
lot of farmers depend on the rice for their lives. And

Taiwan needs the paddies to keep the raining for the
groundwater, because the rivers in Taiwan are short
enough, they running off into the sea guickly, due to the
high mountains and short rivers. So that how to keep

the suitable paddy areas in Taiwan, Are very important
for us . And for the reason of food security we need to
1996ϋڗɾ࢕ɛՑ̋ࣅɽிஞ
Our daughter's families came to visit us in Vancouver in 1996

1996ϋ4˜Ι̵ʘࣚd᜗᜕عЋٙՐዧf 1996ϋ4˜Ι̵ʘࣚ࠱Ѭ৵ԓf
Rafting in Indonesia in 1996 Took a ride together in Indonesia in 1996

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