A square of terroir, a square of beans, an old seed of Yilan, a late-maturing bean, a fragrant brew, a good soy sauce in the ground.

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By upstream and downstream special correspondent Liang Hongbin / tr. by Phil Newell)

Just after the Beginning of Spring, rice farmers in Lanyang Plain were preparing to transplant rice seedlings for the first phase of rice croping. it was supposed to be the scene of farmers bending over to plant seedlings under the paddy field. in a newly turned six-cent dry field in the Zhong community of Toucheng, the newly turned soil was soft and trampled a few centimeters, and a miscellaneous grain seeder was rumbling in.

Wu Yuzhou, a 35-year-old young farmer who originally grew rice, and Ma Yu-an, chairman of the board of directors of the agricultural producers' cooperative in Hedu, just put local soybeans Kaohsiung No. 10 and Tainan No. 3 Qingren black beans into the planter. At this time, the two were in the field, one after another very seriously directing the planter straight forward, while checking to see if the seeds were really in place.

Ma Yuan said excitedly, "this is the first time in the history of Lanyang Plain that large grain planters and harvesters have appeared, symbolizing that miscellaneous grain farming in Lanyang Plain has entered a new era!" Wu Yu-chou said: "this field used to grow purple rice, but the sand is serious, the water loss is fast, and we have to constantly pump water for irrigation." the land is suitable for planting. Fortunately, with the introduction of Wu Shaowen, we changed to grow beans, and the seeds were sown in about three hours on six minutes of land.

Chen Dexing and Chen Shumei (Photography / Liang Hongbin)

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