Taipei Times
Date: Sep 12, 2016
By: Wang Han-ping and Jake Chung / Staff reporter, with staff writer
Concern over the aging population of farmers has prompted the Let It Be organization to introduce a “helper” system that was prevalent in farming villages of old, hoping to solve the shortage of labor.
The organization is best-known for its promotion of natural agricultural techniques in Tainan’s Houbi District (後壁), and its helper system involves farmers working in neighbors’ fields.
The method helps to relieve the burden on farmers who usually work alone, Let It Be said, adding that the method is also more productive.
Three of the eight members of the organization’s management team under the Khao-Kwan Foundation’s Tainan branch have been working fields larger than 1 hectare, it said, adding that starting next year, its members hope to average 1 hectare per person. [FULL STORY]