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(NT$100 million) Annual Report 2020 Council of Agriculture, Executive Yuan (3) Promoting industrialization and valorization of agrotechnology R&D results To increase the use of R&D results, since 2002 the COA has continually strengthened technology transfer. In 2020 we completed the signing of 546 technology transfer contracts (with 172 being first-time technology transfers), earning NT$106.12 million from R&D, marking a new historic high, with the input-output ratio for the technology budget reaching 2.4%. Under the "guidance program for technology R&D and agribusiness," the COA facilitated total investment by businesses of NT$707.71 million, which was the goal for 2020. Also in 2020, the COA's Animal Health Research Institute had 12 technology transfer cases with royalties over NT$1 million, including the transfer of "mass production technology for tissue culture vaccines for swine fever," worth NT$2.5 million. (NT$10 million) end of 2020, the COA had provided over 10 million pieces of information in 1,498 categories. We also continued to maintain 40 Open APIs, to facilitate value-added uses of agricultural data and upgrade the effectiveness of information applications. In addition, through the "Agri Beta" platform (the "smart agriculture common information platform"), the COA continued to collect data related to agricultural production management, and has constructed databases on traceability, weather, pesticides and fertilizers, and market conditions, while also using an Open API to provide third party data or applications by agriculture-related organizations. Currently, each day through an Open API we provide traceability data (the "Three Labels and One QR Code") interface services for farm, fisheries, and animal husbandry products used in school lunches in 3,916 elementary and secondary schools nationwide, building a management mechanism for tracing school food ingredients back to their place of production, and thereby lowering food safety risks and shortening response time in the event that a food safety problem arises. Other types of data, including agricultural weather observation data and information on market conditions and pesticide and fertilizer products, are also provided to the public through a similar operating model. B. Building a cooperative platform for agricultural spatial information To meet the needs of food security and national spatial planning, the COA in 2020 continued to promote work on the national agricultural and farmland resources survey, to stay up-to-date on information including the national farmland resources situation, a comprehensive inventory of the amount of farmland and the locations and land area actually being used for agricultural production, and the usage for buildings of land legally defined as being for agricultural use. For the task of inventorying agricultural and farmland resources, the COA integrates spatial and cartographic data produced R&D earnings as proportion of technology budget 42 (Year) ◎ Graphic of COA income from R&D results and changes in the technology budget over the years. (4) Providing integrated services for agricultural digital information A. Making agricultural information available to the public To raise the transparency level of government administration, the COA has continued to collect, collate, and release information to the public, providing it for non- governmental interface applications. By the