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TTDARES Holds Lecture—Indigenous Farming Culture: Bunun Tribe Farming in the Mountains

2018-11-06

The Taitung District Agricultural Research and Extension Station (TTDARES) has in recent years been working hard on promoting the development of eco-friendly and organic farming. So as to further develop sustainable special industries and promote the value of a multiethnic farming culture, a lecture for the Indigenous Farming Culture series was held on the morning of October 8, 2018, during which was introduced traditional farming modes and techniques of the Bunun tribe and their use of mountain land and relatively small patches of land around villages in times past. Bunun tribe members are very conscious of environmental conservation work, such as forest and water source protection, and their traditional farming mode is by no means at odds with the environment. After the vegetation on a certain piece of land is burnt away, the ashes not only return to the soil they came from, they also become part of a natural cycle that keeps away disease and pests. Then, with the unique tribal methods of crop rotation and polyculture, a botanical community of diversity and mutualism is generated, making for a naturally rich agricultural environment. The lecture called on people to consider how to maintain and continue passing on these traditional techniques and cultural knowledge that are gradually being lost, which will help people learn to love the forest and maintain an attitude of respect and protection for the environment.

Principal Zheng Han-wen talks about traditional Bunun farming modes and techniques. TTDARES Director Chen Hsin-yen hosts the opening of the lecture.   

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