Doors to Diplomacy Participants

Yu Da High school of Commerce and Home Economics (2018 CyberFair Project ID 8374)
Taiwan, Taipei
Official Status: Final Project: Ready for Judging
Teacher:
Category: 1. Local Leaders

We estimate 8 student(s) from 17 to 18 will work on this entry.

Description of Our Community: Yilan county is located in the Northeaster Taiwan island which is a good place with beautiful scenery, fresh air, no industry and no pollution. Yuanshan township is located in the western of Yilan county. It has developed agricultural recreation in recent years. In the township, there are distinctive B&B that Taiwanese idol drama shot the scene many times before. Yushan township is also a valuable place for its head of water in Yilan. It’s a hometown of agriculture. There are abundant of various vegetables and fruits. Agriculture is flourishing. You can see rustic farmers and how they use their wisdom to have a harmonious relation between human and nature. Yuanshan township is even more a creative base to experience agricultural education. Many dreamers who promote agricultural experience to make more people who live in cities know the interesting and profound of agriculture for so long; they let people know the ingredients once again, experience the hard-working of planting in person and the feeling of accomplishment though its unique natural environment, pure clean water in agriculture, to learn how to cherish food and respect nature, to pass agricultural knowledge to next generation for sustainable development. So Yuanshan township is also a place where is filled with power to make dreams come ture.

Project Description: Taiwan took agriculture as country’s base. From hand farming tools to farm engine and to today’s technology farming implement. Every single piece is a record to keep each step of development of Taiwan’s agriculture. Taiwanese farmers are very hardworking. That’s the feature how they show their love and sincerity to this land. Agriculture is the most basic foundation in people’s livelihood. Though agriculture is now facing the farming population’s aging and shortage, farming acreage’s cutting and shrinking, Taiwanese commodity market’s small scale, and after joining WTO, agriculture is forced to have difficult international environment. Hopefully, there are a group of people who have enthusiasm and responsibility to Taiwanese agriculture, they make every effort quietly to develop technology farming implement, to devote ways of cultivation, to improve efficiency of agriculture management, to upgrade agriculture by knowledge management and technology to create more output value and application benefits. Besides, in recent years, Taiwan has a trend to become farmers back in their hometowns, but they are only small farmers with small capital, small farming lands. How can they use the least cost to reach the most efficiency? Mr. Chen Xing Yan, a top student majored in computer science are now getting away to be a farmer with new ways. It’s result from the passion and dream to Taiwanese agriculture. Mr. Chen settled down in Yuanshan township, Yilan county in 2014. Mr. Chen established “broaden sources of nature” club to gather more people who have the same faith. They use open-minded attitude to share their own designs to preserve culture in agriculture and try hard to create high quality of farmer’s living. They give a new way of thinking in traditional agriculture. What’s more, though the process of fulfillment, they find “their ways of living.”

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