Taiwan Peasant Associations and Their Credit Business Characteristics Analysis

Abstract

The peasant associations in Taiwan established at the period of Japan’s colonial age, the internal organizational structure has branded with Japan’s peasant associations. Since Taiwan was liberated in 1945, after few times of reorganization and support by the nationalist party government, the peasant associations in Taiwan has become a public corporation for “Farmer’s ownership, Farmer’s governance rights, and Farmer’s benefitsâ€, the dominated by credit business of rural finance plays an important factor in promoting the agricultural and rural modernization in the island.