Taiwan Agricultural Machinery, Techniques Sow Seeds of Friendship in Malaysia

Malaysian farmers are using agricultural techniques and technology from Taiwan to boost their production and transform their farms.

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00:00Every day, 41-year-old farmer Li Fa-cheng tends to his crops in the rural village of

00:12Rasa, Malaysia, an hour's drive from the capital Kuala Lumpur.

00:16Many of his seedlings are from Taiwan, where he studied agricultural production.

00:21And he's using a planting technique that he learned there.

00:45Li returned to Malaysia five years ago to revitalize his father's farm.

00:50And he says it's techniques from Taiwan that have been key to the farm's production.

01:02With production going well, Li has now set his mind on growing the farm into an even

01:07bigger business.

01:13Li has dreams of turning his farm into a leisure farm, not just a place for production, but

01:18a space for people to learn about where their food comes from, plant and harvest crops,

01:23and consume the farm's products in a cafe setting like this, all in a day's visit.

01:28Two hours west, at a rice factory along the coast, another farmer is also using techniques

01:53from Taiwan to expand his business.

02:06Alan Lim has grown his rice farm in the agricultural town of Sekinchan into an operation that also

02:11provides services to other farms in the area, giving his business extra income.

02:39Lim's factory was introduced to that technology early on.

03:09Taiwan's agriculture ministry hopes that it can continue to share these homegrown technologies

03:12and strategies to improve the lives of Malaysian farmers, who it says it uniquely relates to.

03:39These farmers are already making the most of their connection to Taiwan, a relationship

03:44that Taiwan hopes to expand for the benefit of more Malaysian farms.

03:48Patrick Chen and Tiffany Wong in Sekinchan, Malaysia for Taiwan Plus.