Jingya Agricultural Innovation Market Introduction
Taitung's local good farming and product-friendly promotion platform. Here, you can find seasonal agricultural products, homemade goods, and specialty products produced in an environmentally-friendly manner. We look forward to eating local and using local resources together with you, cherishing our land. "At first, it was simply to help local farmers with economic issues..." Due to work, I had the opportunity to meet Faki (uncle) and Fayi (aunt) from the Taiyuan Dulan tribe in Taitung. During these days, I followed them through the fields—preparing the land, transplanting seedlings, fertilizing, and harvesting. In the rhythm of spring plowing, summer weeding, autumn harvest, and winter storage, I experienced the everyday life of small farmers. In one small tribe after another, agriculture is the primary livelihood. Even in the face of youth migration affecting labor supply and unfair trading practices from middlemen, they still diligently pour their hearts into it. Watching the affection Faki and Fayi have for the land and their insistence on cultivation made me begin to think about "what we can do for these friendly small farmers..." "When we start to do something for the environment, the land will begin to revive!" We hope to build a bridge of trust between local small farmers who insist on natural farming and consumers, where the relationship is not merely transactional, but rather communicative. Through friendly interactions, we can materially help our land...
