See the Latest Agri-Tech at Asia Agri-Tech Expo & Forum, 28-30 September, 2017

Witness How Technology is Shaping the World's Agriculture Industry

TAIPEI, Taiwan, Aug. 22, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Agriculture industry in Taiwan has evolved from labour-intensive to knowledge-intensive; from experience-intensive to automation-intensive; from open field cultivation to indoor farming. All of these evolutions benefit from utilising advanced sensing technology, intelligent devices, IoT, Big data, etc. Asia Agri-Tech Expo & Forum (AAT) organised by UBM Asia Ltd., Taiwan Branch and Council of Agriculture of Taiwan government (COA), will take place from 28^th-30^th of September 2017 at Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center. Both Taiwan and overseas agriculture technology suppliers will gather in AAT to showcase their "innovative, eco-friendly, sustainability" agriculture technologies, products and services during 3 days.

Unmanned helicopter - suitable for aerial photography and filming. Adopting the advanced FHSS technology to provide high transmission quality, communication between the aerial vehicle and GCS.

Seedling Grafting machine being exhibited at AAT aims to relieve the labour shortage problem facing in the industry.

AAT injects fresh energy to agriculture intellectualised

Taiwan government has been injecting new technologies into agriculture production process, like utilising LED as artificial sunlight for indoor farming, and using image recognition technology on unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to spray fertiliser. As technology is becoming the core of agriculture success, Intellectual Property Rights plays a more crucial role. Take UAV as an example, manufacturers of UAV applied for patent successfully for "Positioning System and Observation Synchronization System" and "Locating Direction Data Analysis System and Method", and will showcase their UAV with these two patents in AAT. Agriculture intellectualisation not only happens in Taiwan, but also within the globe.

Amazon announced its takeover of Whole Foods Market and entered into fresh food market. Undoubtedly, this acquisition is a shocking change to the farm to market supply chain. This change also reminds us that ensuring food safety is one of the most important success factors in this era which agriculture product traceability system and fast testing kit can help. At AAT, visitors will see the world's first "Portable Super-fast Raman Spectroscopy Testing System" which can be used to test for fertiliser residual, heavy metal, and plasticiser within 5 minutes without damaging testing product samples.

Agriculture Machinery and Plant species customised to meet local condition

In addition to research in hardware, Taiwan is proud of its plant species improvement and grafting technology. Taiwan Banana Research Institute (TBRI) whose main mission is to promote productivity and quality of Taiwan banana through research activities, has announced that Taiwan has got the most delicious banana in the world. Visitors will witness TBRI make world debut for "Tai Banana No.7", the newly developed Cavendish cultivar banana plantlet with moderate resistance to Foc TR4.

AAT will be held concurrently with Livestock & Aquaculture Taiwan Expo & Forum. Series of thematic conference topics will be presented by industrial professional and the event is calling for match-making participants.

For free admission, please register through the following link, https://onlinereg.ubmasia.com/Login.aspx?Lang=tc&EventID=2017AAT

For visitor inquiry, please contact:
Ms. Natasha Chiang
Tel: +886-2-2738-3898
Email: aat-tw@ubm.com

About UBM Asia (www.ubmasia.com)

Owned by UBM plc, which is listed on the London Stock Exchange, UBM Asia is the largest trade show organiser in Asia. UBM Asia was awarded "Asia's Most Reliable Trade Show Organiser Award" in Hong Kong's Most Valuable Companies Awards (HKMVCA) 2016.

About Council of Agriculture of Taiwan (www.coa.gov.tw)

The Council of Agriculture is the competent authority on the agricultural, forestry, fishery, and animal husbandry and food affairs in Taiwan. Its responsibilities include guiding and supervising provincial and municipal offices in these areas. Under the council there are the Departments of Planning, Animal Industry, Farmers' Services, International Affairs, Science and Technology, and Irrigation and Engineering, etc.

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