In the two years since taking office, Council of Agriculture Chairman Yu Yu-hsien has outlined a host of imaginative proposals as a blueprint for reform of a farming sector still languishing at the primary production stage, which have stirred considerable controversy among agronomists and the farming community.
農業零成長、放寬農地農有限制、建立離農年金制……，為改善農業停留在「初級產業」的體質，農委會主任委員余玉賢上任兩年間，陸續大膽提出他心中農業改革的藍圖，在農業學界、業界引起不少爭議。