New Taipei City School Kids Eat Safe Food

After New Taipei City started the elementary school lunch to supply meal of pure organic vegetables each week, New Taipei City government announced, in February 2014 will increase to eat four meals of certified vegetables each week. There are more than 346,000 students to be benefited, without any increase fees to bear, the school lunch price remaining the same. So far, this act scores for the national first example.

                                       

New Taipei City mayor Mr. Zhu indicated that, New Taipei City government in the implementation to supply meal of organic vegetables each week last year, feedbacks very well. So in February, we will expand to all schools, starting with ones of equipped kitchen from 109 junior high and elementary schools as an experiment. We start to provide 4 meals of certified authentication vegetables; Last September of 2013, there were 280 schools starting off, estimated to have approximately 4,400 ton certified authentication vegetables for a year, budgets more than NTD 120 millions. Mayor Zhu stressed that, the New Taipei City government will subsidize the meal fees, school lunch not going to adjust prices. At present, each student pays NTD 600 per month for school lunch fee.

                                                
Agricultural committee Chairman Mr. Chen said that, the agricultural committee will have to push local production to cut down CO² footprint, and let the students to understand that all vegetables and fruits are from hometown to link the students to the Taiwan agriculture emotion. The certified authentication vegetables not permit to have excess pesticides, pure safe food to feed the students. Some housewives worry about once heard the organic vegetables picked out pesticide residue in the past, and desired earnestly the government’s strict supervision.


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