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Not Your Traditional Agriculture

Steven Crook/2020-01-152022-10-25

Specialist farmers in Taiwan are concentrating on such niche areas as snails, deer antlers, and “red quinoa.” Text and photos by Steven Crook & Katy Hui-wen Hung The 11 metric tons of meat that Akwey Chen dispatched to his customers in 2018 is just one-tenth the volume produced by the average pig farm in Taiwan…

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Cultural and Creative Businesses Thriving in Taiwan

Philip Liu/2015-12-142015-12-15

The sector has been assisted by government seed money and the emergence of e-commerce promotional platforms. When the government included cultural and creative enterprises among the “emerging industries” announced in 2009 as worthy of promotion, it was the first time many in Taiwan had even thought of the sector as an industry. But with government…