{"id":18337,"date":"2026-06-16T23:33:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T23:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aatworld.com\/?p=18337"},"modified":"2026-06-16T23:33:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T23:33:19","slug":"taiwan-farm-machinery-expo-marks-20th-year-with-electric-tractor-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aatworld.com\/ar\/taiwan-farm-machinery-expo-marks-20th-year-with-electric-tractor-debut\/","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan Farm Machinery Expo Marks 20th Year with Electric Tractor Debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><strong>The 20th Taiwan International Agricultural Machinery and Materials Exhibition opened in Chiayi, bringing together 250 companies and 700 booths to showcase the latest advances in smart agriculture and low-carbon farming equipment.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><strong>Highlights included large-scale agricultural machinery, smart farming technologies, drones, and the debut of the Monarch Electric Tractor, a self-driving electric tractor assembled by a U.S. subsidiary of Foxconn. The vehicle incorporates self-driving chips from Nvidia and battery technology from Tesla.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><strong>Officials said the exhibition supports Taiwan\u2019s net-zero goals by encouraging farmers to adopt cleaner, more efficient equipment. The government has increased subsidies for electric farm machinery and invested more than US$250 million in farm equipment support programs since 2019.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><strong>Organizers said the event also highlights the role of smart agriculture in addressing labour shortages and improving productivity as Taiwan\u2019s farming workforce continues to age.<\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 20th Taiwan International Agricultural Machinery and Materials Exhibition opened in Chiayi, bringing together 250 companies and 700 booths to showcase the latest advances in smart agriculture and low-carbon farming&hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18317,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aatworld.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18337"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aatworld.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aatworld.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aatworld.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aatworld.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18337"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aatworld.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18339,"href":"https:\/\/aatworld.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18337\/revisions\/18339"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aatworld.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aatworld.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aatworld.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aatworld.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}