The history of Taiwan fruit (2) _ Lin Chih-hung

Text Lin Chih-hung/set div., fruit grain suddenly smaller said before, is Taiwan's Tainan County early planting mango, is Taiwan's largest mango production. 50 years ago, the Taiwan from the United States, Florida, has introduced five new varieties planted in Mango Yuching, has changed the Jade Mountain city Humanities landscape well. Love man mango price and yield fluctuation, affecting the livelihood of local farmers. The ups and downs, variegated farmers but not, stick to it is not willing to give up and continuous untiring work, finally to sweat tears make Taiwan's ��introduction mango village ��. Love man mango export to several countries, in response to repeated overcome technology Japan, excellence, has finally been recognized, and caused a wave of mango, Humphreys for Taiwan agricultural success model. It is said that at the time employed male a genius 60 (NT, approximately RMB 12 million), love man a pound may sell 10 dollars (TWD), harvest profits very tempting, planting area is therefore expanding rapidly, originally oats hillsides, almost comprehensive go love man mango. Planting mango decades of fruit farmers Wu Ching Jin said, well, then enter the Jade eyes can see crop probably full of mango tree, 1973 Chiang aware jade well kind of a lot of love for man, that was set up in a bucket of six tribes of Taiwan first mango area. But there is a mango Grand reversal, all the local baffled at the mango tablets to shrink, suddenly becomes the General size of Litchi fruit. However, after a long time, nobody could not find the reason. Experts also undertook an investigation, or insect pests to the fruit. Wu Qing into attempting to increase efforts to fertilization, remains a thinning, vain, he said as being God predestined. Looking for reasons to toss in a few years, many farmers from small, one year after harvest to destroy the mango tree to Orange, just because the Orange can sell to a better price. ?? planting mango decades of Mr. Wu Qing into fruit farmers. However, after a long time, nobody could not find the reason. Experts also undertook an investigation, or insect pests to the fruit. Wu Qing into attempting to increase efforts to fertilization, remains a thinning, vain, he said as being God predestined. Looking for reasons to toss in a few years, many farmers from small, one year after harvest to destroy the mango tree to Orange, Orange to sell a good price. Fruit grains become larger, but unsalable challenges brought about this case a mystery until about 1986, mangoes grow into the secrets of small tablets announced at last. That is one day, they came across the village near the piggery, next to the garbage dumps, fruit orchards of the still large and mid-, Wu Ching Jin and farmers close observation, finally find out the specific Department, is the mango when flowering flowers were buzzing fly green head. Initially, Wu Ching Jin conjecture is not let fly from flowers, fruits and grains are great. He tried to use mosquito nets catch flies into his own orchards, but completely gone, then try in Orchard to leucorrhea fish flies, finally put the fish around the fruit trees grow a large grain of mango, it produces a lot of flies and insects, unsanitary and smell is hard to stop. No matter how bad the work environment, Wu Ching Jin mastered the ability to identify pollination and fruit, mangoes grow to the size of the thumb that can see whether you can grow up to be a normal fruit, he said that was the end of pollination and fruit will highlight the wet pipe shall be of pollination, cut the nuts in the embryo, without pollination of mangoes grow up to be removed as soon as possible. At this point, the Department released a report at plants confirmed mango flower pollen only with wet stickiness by insect vectors to complete pollination, broke the mangoes are anemophilous flowers is a myth. Because health factors, Wu Ching Jin was placing bee pollination box media, but the results are not good, no Honey Mango flower cannot attract bees, or green flies pollination. In 1988, agricultural improvement station proposed by a large green soybean cultivation clean flies, that mango big harvest!, but after two years later, in the province of fruit farmers know that want to keep the fly mango harvest, harvest of mid-prices fell at the drop. Wu Ching Jin said the price was very good mango, pollen at problem solving, sustained of downwards after 1996 only remaining one-tenth, mango from entering price era, helpless farmers silent sufferers. I didn't expect was that farmers did not solve the problem of mango, but manufacturing larger problem: unable to resolve the problems of poor sales. For overproduction, mango fruit farmers cannot settle, though not enough this has made the painful decision sent to processing. The market consensus is that the number of recycling, can even number or to discard. Mango is back, the Council set up a counselling service team, improving quality, so farmers established marketing classes, but also facilitate common marketing needs. Finally, in order to resolve the "large impact price", fruit farmers so that should open the export route, and the international practice, the only way to make the production of love man mango for clearing. Long ago, there is a small fruit co-operatives exported of mango, in 2001 was the COA is listed as one of Taiwan's flagship products, actively expand export strategy is consideredIs the right choice. Then export Japan began to be popular, because the price is better, but Japan's quality requirements extremely harsh, but in the certification standards of production has been able to break through the limits you to a few years later sold, the product finally caused buying.