October 23, 2014

TAIWAN ‘SEED’

TAIWAN. This country is quite familiar for me since i was a child. My parents is a teachers but they do farming too. Sometimes, after school or in holiday, they took me to the field, see and help them cultivating the land or harvesting the crops. So my memory of the word ‘Taiwan’ start here.

When i helped my parents to plant some vegetables and fruits i saw that the seed is made in Taiwan. At that time, i ask why we use this?, what is Taiwan? a sincere question from a child. The my parents answered me, They said, this a good quality seed, we can multiply the crops using this seed and Taiwan is a country who invented this seed. Oh, i see. I replied it.

It reminds me again, when i visited Taiwan Last year, i saw they have a good quality of seed, strong farm association (there’s several farm association), great support from government such as give technical support and amount of fund for farmers. The association provide the market for the farmers product and they have a bank, so the farmers can loan the money and use it to develop their farming business. What a good system that we should learn.

The other interesting is they also develop agricultural tourism. So, people can learn about their agriculture and in the same time also can enjoy the view. Wonderful..