Taiwan"s specialized vegetable production areas : an integrated approach

The project was designed to improve Taiwanese vegetable production and marketing practices, thus increasing the summer vegetable supply and stabilizing vegetabale prices. The report briefly discusses the objectives and organization of the project, in which vegetable growers located in productive regions were provided with technical and credit incentives to improve production methods. In addition, collective marketing systems were established to facilitate crop transport to the Taipei and Kaohsiang markets. The report also reviews the project"s communications channels, sources of capital, and use of pesticides and fertilizers. A detailed description of the project"s group marketing system is provided, along with data from interviews of project area leaders regarding their crops, work schedule, and degree of mechanization.