Ershui Township locates at southern Changhua with beautiful scenery, and without industrial pollution since there is no manufactory in town. It uses Zhuoshui River to irrigate farming field and produces high-quality Zhuoshui Rice, which is famous in the entire Taiwan. In order to increase farmers’ profit, it cooperates with Taichung Agricultural Research and Extension Station to coach farmers to plant commercial crop – Mesona. Since the production was rich, and the quality was excellent, the plan was affirmed by the contract company. It expanded the contracted areas up to 20 acres this year, and guaranteed the purchase price at 70 NTD per kg to make farmers very happy.

Thefarmers who changed to plant Mesona said: “After Agricultural Research and Extension Station helped to select seedling and alter the planting technique, the Mesona planted in Ershui almost does not need chemicals to control the insect and disease, and the production is not affected by the climate as well. This hugely reduces our cost, and the profit is more than twice of the one for planting rice.”

From the data of June last year, the profit and farmers’ return sharingwere very positive. Mesona will start again in Qingming Festival this year, and the new development will be anticipated.

Pictures retrieved from the CT News

Corresponding contracted production data was provided by Taisun Enterprise Co., Ltd.

Relevant news on Ershui Mesona for reference.

http://news.cnyes.com/Content/20150625/20150625144815676859810.shtml

http://news.housefun.com.tw/news/article/170546101072.html