According estimates by the Department of Statistics, Ministry of Economic Affairs, and FIRDI’s ITIS project, the overall output value of Taiwan’s food industry was roughly NT$155.97 billion (Table 1) in the third quarter of 2011, an increase of 6.1% over the same quarter in 2010. The food industry output value in the first three quarters of 2011 was approximately NT$438.98 billion, a 7.6% increase over that for the same period in 2010. High-growth subsectors were ....