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In general, the rural areas is considered to be a place of self-sufficient and living in a happy place. However, owing to conventional farming, the people who gradually don’t collects the potherb and aquatic product, and move away from the environment. In order to restore rural vitality and enhance rural resilience. In the first, it is necessary to improve the existing farming, and march toward environmental-friendly agriculture, to make life and ecology co-prosper. Meinong Dist. is a thriving area of social movement snice 1990s in Taiwan. But in decade years, most farmers still choose conventional farming in Meinong Dist., where region based on agriculture. Therefore, this study studies the peasant and local organization that practice environmental-friendly agriculture in Meinong Dist.. What does decisions and actions make for agriculture? And what kind of dilemmas are encountered in the existing agricultural market and environment?
The study found that farmers' decision and business models of environmental-friendly agriculture in Meinong Dist., can be divided into five categories as “cultivation model”, “reason for engaging in environmental-friendly agriculture”, “cultivated area”, “crop selection” and “sales model”. In the decision and business models of local organization, Chimei Community University provides a platform for environmentally-friendly peasant to establish a network of connections which can do presentations, learning, and discussion. It establishes a link between “seeking the common good”.
Meinung farmers' association uses agricultural policies to influence most of the conventional farmers, and implements reduces pesticides and safe farming that zero pesticide detection. Elementary School in Meinong Dist. in order to let the students know more about their hometown by course of food and agriculture education and community cultural. This course may will be the opportunity to become the pull of juniors returning hometown in the future.
The influence of the dilemma on the development of environmental-friendly agriculture in the Meinong can be divided into two aspects: social and agricultural. At the social level, owing to the convenience of the pesticides and agricultural machinery, the unemployed population is released from the rural, and many people migrat to urban. The migration has resulted in a decrease in the labor force of the agriculture, aging society with fewer children in the rural. In the same time, the returning that lack of agricultural knowledge have chosen to become professional founder, then led to the fraction in agriculture. At the agricultural level, under the Leave Tobacco Industry policy, the labor exchange of the rural had been disappeared. Even because of the influence of capitalism, vicious competition has emerged. Secondly, the famers can’t choose the environmental-friendly agriculture is due to the conventional farmland is adjacent to the environmental-friendly agriculture farmland. |