The party has formulated a complete set of policies about agricultural subsidies, a farmers’ retirement program and improving the efficiency of agricultural land use to deal with food security, Chen said.
Chang added that the KMT was only trying to pander to farmers with its policies.
The DPP’s set of policies cover a variety of fronts, including capital, manpower, production and marketing, as well as land efficiency, he said, adding that “most of all, food security should be included as part of the national security and agriculture should be regarded as a public sector.”
Speaking at a campaign stop at Yilan yesterday, DPP Chairperson Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) said the agricultural sector should be “redefined as an integral part of Taiwan’s economy.”
Tsai said the government should put sufficient resources in to modernizing the sector, helping it with technology and marketing, and encourage young generation to work in the industry.
“The KMT does not care about agricultural development and farmers until election time,” DPP Legislator Wong Chin-chu (翁金珠) said.
“We would like to see an agricultural policy that works, but the KMT should stop copying the DPP’s platforms,” she said.
Former president Lee Teng-hui (李登輝) told reporters last night that the subsidy increase proposed by the Cabinet was “not enough.”
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