Aging Farmers: High-Tech Island

While Taiwan, like many other developed nations, is facing the problem of an aging population, the crisis in the agricultural sector is particularly acute. The average age of farmers in Taiwan is 62, and 31% are over 65. Four years ago, Zhongshan University Department of Information Management Professor Huang Qingxiang

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Revolutionary agriculture in the Taipei countryside

A few minutes from the Tucheng MRT station in Taipei County, thereís a magical place. At a site that used to be an ammunition depot five years ago, 15 farming families have turned 80 hectares into a rare, beautiful urban landscape — an organic farming community.

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