A Chinese holiday appears on the Ministry of Agriculture app’s calendar. Minister Chen Junji apologizes and explains that it has been updated

The calendar in an app of the Ministry of Agriculture included Chinese National Day and other holidays, sparking discussion. Agriculture Minister Chen Junji said today that it was found that the manufacturer made an error, but the Ministry of Agriculture should also take responsibility for supervision, and he would solemnly apologize to users of this APP. The Ministry of Agriculture issued an update yesterday evening so that this problem will no longer occur.

An "Agricultural E-Gate" app provided by the Ministry of Agriculture for farmers to use has China's National Day on October 1st and Army Day on August 1st on the calendar, sparking discussion. The Ministry of Agriculture said on the 1st that it was found that the contractor had preset to load external holiday information during development. It deeply apologized for causing external doubts and had launched a comprehensive inventory.

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The Legislative Yuan held a general policy inquiry today. Chen Junji was interviewed before attending the meeting and said that regarding the use of Chinese calendars in the calendar in the "Agricultural e-Grapple" App, it was found that the manufacturer made an error when implementing the plug-in calendar. Although it is the manufacturer's problem, the Ministry of Agriculture should also assume the responsibility for supervision. He would like to solemnly apologize to the users of this APP.

Chen Junji pointed out that the Ministry of Agriculture had updated the system last night, and users will update the system when they use it again today, so that such problems will not occur again.

The Executive Yuan said yesterday that if the supplementary budget cannot be reviewed before the end of this year, many increases in social welfare expenditures, including the increase in welfare subsidies for elderly farmers, may become invalid.

Chen Junji pointed out that part of the allowance for veteran farmers is included in the supplementary budget. He hopes that the Legislative Yuan can review and pass the supplementary budget proposed by the Executive Yuan as soon as possible, so that the Ministry of Agriculture can smoothly distribute it.