Focus Taiwan
Date: 05/31/2020
By: Emerson Lim

Taipei, May 31 (CNA) A Taiwanese technical mission in the Pacific island nation of Nauru is helping a local penal facility cultivate a piece of land to improve food self-reliance and ensure inmates learn skills they can use after being released, according to the mission.

"The project, under the concept of waste minimization, officially started in January, with a poultry and pig farming section to be completed in August," Daniel Lee (李宜龍), chief of the Taiwanese technical mission told CNA in a telephone interview Sunday.

Capacity building for crop planting, livestock raising, fertilizer making, and cooking skills will start in June with the goal being to transfer the farm to the Nauru government at the end of 2020 or early 2021, Lee added.

Nauru is one of 15 countries that maintain diplomatic relations with Taiwan.  [FULL  STORY]