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Standing on the
protecting embankment,
you are able to see a
lot of spaces decorated
with nets; these are
called "Net Houses".
Uncle Su points out that
it is because of
avoiding the worm
damage; then he has the
vegetables to be planted
in it. But there
rising a question in my
mind: Isn't there no
more worms because of
this protection? The
answer is: of course
not.
A Net house is with
190.12 M2 in
scale; it costs NT
dollars 400,000 for the
space of 950.6 M2.
Uncle Lin has invested
NT Dollars 600,000 prior
to plant in his 1425.9 M2
Net house. Because of
the subsidy from the
Farmers' Association to
cover 40% in the
equipments, it did let
the Uncle Lin to release
some burden on the cost. |
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The Net Houses in front of
us
are one of the gardens
counseled
by Farmers' Association. |
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Wowooo~
what a color green garden!!
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So the Farmers'
Association utilizes the『biological
control』to
protect. This is the
method to apply the
features of worms to
capture harmful
insects. The plastic
bottles hanged in the
Net houses are right the
protecting devices, said
by Uncle Su.
Way one is to have the
yellow glue on the
plastic bottles; color
yellow is able to
attract the Fruit flies
to have them adhered on
bottles and reach to the
purpose of decreasing
the density. |
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The bottle with yellow glue
adhered a lot of Fruit
flies. |
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Uncle Su explained the
"biological control"theorem
in details;
what I did is
to make notes
seriously. |
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Way 2 is to apply the
"pheromone"
from female insect to
capture the male one.
There is a tube loaded
with pheromone in the
"Insect Inducing Box"
and cut its one end to
let it released the
smell to attract male
insects within 5-meter
scale to fly in.
Because of funnel
design, "only in-no out"
feature is able to
attract the male insects
to kill and decrease the
quantity to mate and lay
eggs. |
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According to the
descriptions from Uncle Su,
the effect of box located
outside the Net
House
is better; but it is hard to
be seen. |
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In order to kill the different
insects, farmers use the
different
"pheromone"
and various color boxes to
verify. The blue box is for
"Leaf
Roller of Beta Vulgaris"and
the red one is to capture the
"Prodenialitura
(Fabricius)".
The usage lifetime of one
"female
pheromone"
tube is around 2 months. In
case the farmer is easy to
forget about this; it is able to
add the pigment in the tube in
advance; then you are able to
see the color change to decide
to switch with a new one. A
"Insect Inducing Box" is only NT
Dollars 43 and a
"female
pheromone"
tube costs only ten bucks; its
utility is let value to be best
though these unit costs are
cheap. |
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The "Insect Inducing Box"
in red is to capture
the
"Prodenialitura
(Fabricius)". |
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The red tiny tube Uncle Su
hold
is loaded right with
the
"pheromone"from
female insects. |
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All the bounty should be under
the Bio-Test from Uncle Su of
Farmers' Association in order to
make sure to meet with the
specification and to be sold
into the supermarket. 97% of
the revenues are belonged to be
the Farmers; the balance 30% is
applied to cover the
marketing/fixed cost of Farmers'
Association.
The farmers are assisted by
Farmers' Association to arrange
the categories; they use the
ballot to decide which kind of
vegetables as the first priority
to plant and take turn to plant
the different vegetables. In
summer, the main items are the
amaranth and water celery;
during winter, it is able to be
seen the spinach and crown daisy.
There is only class with 15
members in producing-promotion
class, which is assisted by
LuJou Farmers' Association.
What the plant scale is 5.03
hectares; this includes the Net
House is with 3.58 hectares and
Outdoor section is with 1.45
hectares. The farmers held
meetings periodically in order
to have questions discussion and
experience interaction. They
also attend the fairs and
seminars in order to improve
their professional knowledge. |
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The packed Green river's
vegetables
pass QC and then deliver to
the supermarkets of Taipei
for sales. |
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