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Nanguo Elementary School (2014 CyberFair Project ID 7862)
Taiwan, Changhua
Official Status: Incomplete: under Development
Teacher:
Category: 3. Business and Community Organizations

We estimate 6 student(s) from 11 to 12 will work on this entry.

Description of Our Community: RCSAG is located in southwest Changhua County in a small coastal village called Fangyuan Township. Fangyuan used to be well known for its oysters raising, fish farming, and asparagus and peanuts growing due to its environmental condition. Wheat used to be one of the first grain choices farmers picked in here and around central Taiwan at approximately 60 years ago during Japanese occupation; yet, as people’s dietary habit started to change over the years, demand for rice became greater while international trading became more common; wheat field were replaced by rice field and massive wheat was imported. However, began with contacted farming, RCSAG has been trying to restore the local wheat plowing over the past few years and so far, the contacted wheat fields has widely spread in places around Taiwan. More importantly is that, RCSAG insists on having its contracted farmers to plow the field with Eco friendly method instead of rushing with any causes; RCSAG’s ultimate objective is to create a relationship for the farmers, the products (food) and the environment to be symbiosis and long lasting.

Project Description: Rejoice Community SupportedAgriculture Group (RCSAG), from Changhua County, Taiwan,is a social enterprise. Social enterprises are businesses whose primary purpose is the common good. They use the methods and disciplines of business and the power of the marketplace to advance their social, environmental and human justice agendas. The RCSAG has no donation, no fund raising, nor government subsidy application is accepted. In Taiwan, the majority wheat used nationwide is imported, and this trend has resulted in not only questionable quality control issues, but it has caused the local related industry to fall as well. Nevertheless, RCSAG from Changhua County, Taiwan, noticed the situation and began its devotion on rescuing the industry as well as on protecting food safety that the society consumed.

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