Taoyuan Sustainable Development Goals

To take care of the health of elementary and junior high school students, Taoyuan City provides nutritious and safe lunches. Starting from the second semester of the 2022 academic year, free school lunches will be provided for public and private elementary and junior high school students, allowing students to enjoy free lunches on school days and ensuring a secure learning environment.With rising prices in recent years, the cost of producing school lunches has increased. In response to the rising prices and to ensure the quality of the meals served, lunch fees will be uniformly increased by NT$3 per meal starting from the 2023 academic year as each school’s current lunch fee, with a maximum subsidy of NT$48 per meal per student.

Promotion of Expanded Plantation of Organic ProduceTaoyuan City is the largest origin of organic vegetables in Northern Taiwan, which actively promotes safe agriculture and organic cultivation. The production area of organic agriculture has increased year by year, reaching 497 hectares in May 2024.In terms of promoting organic cultivation of tea plantations, organic fertilizers are used to supply nutrients needed for the growth of tea, and agricultural wastes are effectively utilized. In addition, operators adopting organic tea farm cultivation may claim for “Organic Tea Leaves” mark. In May 2024, the planting area of organic tea reached 10 hectares.Fulfilling Monitoring from Source to Ensure Safe Supply of Domestic “Three Marks and One Qualification” IngredientsTo ensure that the campus food ingredients suppliers and group catering operators in Taoyuan City can obtain the safe “Three Marks and One Qualification” ingredients, the City actively complies with policies under the Council of Agriculture, Executive Yuan and guides farmers to introduce various verification and traceability systems, In addition strengthening the source management and corresponding random inspections on school’s fresh produce, husbandry and fish products to keep close tab from the origin, thereby ensuring the safety and security of nutritious lunches for students in elementary and junior high schools.Nutritional Safety Food ProgramWith a view to promote the domestic production and sales of organic produce and to allow school kids savor local ingredients with peace of mind, the weekly lunches served in the City’s elementary and junior high schools will include 3 meals with locally grown organic vegetables, 1 meal with local TAP vegetables, while all meals are made from non-GMO ingredients. In addition, a joint inspection team is appointed to cooperate with regular and irregular sampling and full-process inspection and control with the purpose to ensure the safety and quality of lunches. In 2024, NT$ 175 million was contributed, benefitting more than 210,000 students.Agri-Food and Food Safety Education PromotionsInclusion of locally produced and sold TAP soybeans into municipal elementary and high schoollunches as well as school purchases subsidies to increase schools’ willingness of adoption and to promote domestic sales of domestically produced and sold TAP soybeans, thereby maintaining the sustainable operation of the City's grain and soybean industry and activating the fallow farmland and increasing the scale of grain cultivation and the grain self-sufficiency rate.Taoyuan City has been committed to promoting leisure agriculture in recent years. Currently, it has approved the establishments of 10 leisure agriculture areas. Leisure farms in the leisure area have wide outdoor fields and a multitude of agricultural experience activities. The agricultural experiences are combined with the curriculum to encourage teachers and students to immerse themselves in Mother Nature and to promote the concept of agri-food education and environment education, In addition revitalizing the development of rural leisure industry. Through the above methods, local farmers and people may understand the importance of biodiversity, and develop safe agriculture in a way that respects the environment and is friendly to the ecology.

By providing basic meal care and food relief to vulnerable families, health, looting, and crime and other social security issues caused by hunger or poverty can be eliminated, thereby strengthening social security.An-Jia Food and Resources BankThrough the An-Jia Food and Resources Bank which systematically manages private donations, and strictly controls the inventory, quality, logistics and warehousing, and social worker distribution rules, the materials delivery to those in need can be guaranteed. From January to May 2024, there will be a total of 27 An-Jia Food and Resources Bank branches were established to serve 13,039 people and 4,565 disadvantaged households.Surplus Food PlanIn cooperation with NGOs (New Yonghe Market, Carrefour, and RFI Trading Inc.), they donated premium food resources to 25 Community Care Stations and Little Satellite Care Stations for disadvantaged children in Taoyuan City to provide meal services. To expand the program, a Cherish Food Base is planned to be established at the S12 site of Danan Forest Park in Bade District by second half of 2024, as a storage facility for materials to improve care for disadvantaged elderly and children.Resources Voucher, Charitable Meal VoucherNT$ 100 worth of meal vouchers and resources voucher coming in denominations of NT$100, 200 and 500 are issued to the underprivileged families to help them fight hunger. Approx 20,000 vouchers are distributed each year.