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A Big Step for Small Farmers: Opening of the Taitung Agricultural Product Value-added Trial Production Center

2019-04-24

The Taitung Agricultural Product Value-added Trial Production Center (TAPVATPC) is located conveniently on the TTDARES grounds in downtown Taitung. It is a processing site established based on GHP standards that provides farmers with four low-risk raw-material processing methods (drying, grinding, rolling, and roasting) for the trial processing of agricultural product samples. With consultation services and guidance offered during the process, farmers may first assess their products, costs, and machinery needs before deciding whether to become completely involved in the secondary processing industry. It will also help to establish proper food hygiene practices and promote processing knowledge. After carrying out processing at the TAPVATPC, if farmers still need help with package design, mass production, or introducing their products into stores, they may find a complete range of related services at the Agricultural Product Processing Integration Service Center of the Agricultural Technology Research Institute. The TTDARES and National Taitung University are partners in this endeavor, so after product samples in the early stage of processing have been made at the TAPVATPC, they may be brought to the university’s Pilot Food Product Biotechnology Plant to carry out mass-production trials.

Opening ceremony for the Taitung Agricultural Product Value-added Trial Production Center (TAPVATPC). Map of the TAPVATPC. Production demonstration and tasting of puffed grains at the TAPVATPC.

Demonstration and explanation of grain rolling at the TAPVATPC. TAPVATPC drying room. Products processed at the TAPVATPC.

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