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Yizhu Elementary School (2011 CyberFair Project ID 6749)
Taiwan,
Chiayi County
Official Status:
Final Project: Ready for Judging
Teacher:
Category: 1. Local Leaders
We estimate 9 student(s) from 10 to 12 will work on this entry.
Description of Our Community: Yizhu Township is a small township located in the Chia-Nan Plain. The population of Yizhu Township is about thirty thousand. For several generations, the rural areas and fishing villages still have not changed a lot. The beautiful and changeable Bazhang River, the border of Chiayi County and Tainan City, flows along the south of Yizhu Township.
There are no tall buildings, great mansions, and heavy traffic in Yizhu Township. The economical conditions and resources are also inferior to other metropolises. Although most residents are engaged in the agriculture and fishery industries, the agricultural products of Yizhu Township always did not have a great popularity before the year of 2007. Grandpa Weng Wen-xue won the contest of Ten Best Classic Fine Rice Award continuously in the years of 2007 and 2008. This makes a great change to rice cultivation of Yizhu Township. Tainan Numer Eleven, a rice product of I-Mei Foods Co., Ltd., is labeled with “Produced from the Place of Classic Fine Rice.” This important achievement repositions the rice quality of Yizhu Township, and also brings a niche for Yizhu’s economy of community.
Project Description: Taiwan is an area that produces the rice abundantly. To consumers, the nationwide contest of Classic Fine Rice of each year is a strong quality guarantee. And, the Ten Best Classic Fine Rice Award also represents the highest honor to those painstaking farmers all the year round.
Weng Wen-xue, an ordinary old farmer, cultivates crops all his life, shows his affections to people, and is very concerned about the land. He let the nameless fields of food grains become star farmlands, and won the Ten Best Classic Fine Rice continuously in the years of 2007 and 2008. Grandpa Weng Wen-xue also brought a new niche for the recessionary rice industry of Yizhu Township. Yizhu Township originally is not a suitable area for cultivating rice. Grandpa Weng Wen-xue started from a lot of tiny work to improve the soil conditions and enhance the rice quality. And finally, he won the appreciation of gourmets and judges. Grandpa Weng also endeavored to promote his treasurable experience by lectures and education. He hopes to bring more young educated farmers together to take action and unite, and to make the dream, the hometown of fine rice, come true.
Through this project, we hope to understand how outstanding Grandpa Weng Wen-xue is, and hope that more people know the fine rice of Yizhu Township. Besides, we hope to encourage people to meet the challenge bravely when they face the dilemma, and make their dreams come true.