Taichung’s smart agriculture achievements are taking the Asia-Pacific stage! The Agriculture Bureau of Taichung City Government entered the 2026 Asia-Pacific and Taiwan Sustainability Action Awards with its smart agriculture sustainability transformation project, “Taichung Smart Technology Driving Sustainability”. Focusing on SDG 9, Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure, the project won the Gold Award at the Asia-Pacific Sustainability Action Awards and the Silver Award at the Taiwan Sustainability Action Awards, showing Taichung’s achievements in upgrading agriculture through data governance, smart technology, and cross-sector collaboration.
The Agriculture Bureau said smart agriculture is not just about bringing in equipment. It uses technology and data to help farmers respond to challenges such as climate change, an aging farming population, labor shortages, and market fluctuations. In recent years, Taichung has focused on “demonstration sites, industry alliances, and data platforms”, gradually turning scattered agricultural information into practical governance tools. These efforts help farmers improve production efficiency, reduce operational risks, and strengthen the overall resilience of the agricultural sector.
The Agriculture Bureau noted that Taichung has successively built smart agriculture demonstration sites in fields such as rice, tea, flowers, mushrooms, beekeeping, vegetables, and livestock. Technologies including micro weather stations, environmental sensing, smart irrigation, environmental control equipment, drone imaging, and data analysis have been introduced, allowing farmers to track crop growth and environmental changes in real time. At the same time, through cross-sector collaboration models such as the Taichung Soybean ESG Sustainable Smart Agriculture Alliance and the Taichung Rice Smart Agriculture Alliance, the city is linking farmers, farmers’ associations, cooperatives, technical service providers, processors, and sales channels. This is helping smart agriculture move from single-site demonstrations toward full supply chain integration.
In addition to field technology applications, the Agriculture Bureau has also built the Taichung Smart Agriculture Production and Marketing Information Integration Platform. It includes Taichung Easy Agriculture (https://agri-data.taichung.gov.tw/) and its official LINE account for public services, as well as an agricultural decision support platform for internal policy analysis and resource allocation. By integrating data on agricultural surveys, market prices, weather alerts, pests and diseases, safe pesticide use, and policy information, the platform creates a dual-track agricultural digital governance model covering both farmer services and policy decision-making.
These awards are not only recognition of Taichung’s smart agriculture achievements. They also show that the city’s direction of using data governance to drive agricultural transformation has been recognized. Looking ahead, the Bureau will continue expanding smart agriculture demonstration sites, deepening industry alliance cooperation, and improving Taichung Easy Agriculture and the internal decision support platform. This will bring smart technology closer to farmers’ needs, make agricultural policy decisions more precise, and help Taichung agriculture move toward greater resilience, efficiency, and sustainability. (8/22*4)*Agriculture Bureau
Contact: Section Chief Huang, Agriculture Bureau, Taichung City Government
Contact number: 04-22289111 ext. 56101