The obstacles which Joy & Hope Wheat face in its development are as follows:

      First, human resources. We lack people with conceptual and thinking talents. In most farming villages, most of the people are talents of practical operating, so there are few people with business experience or thinking skills.

      The second problem is financial and product management. Usually the crops were bought in cash, so with a production of 200 tons of soybeans at 60 NTD per Kilogram, we would have to pay 12 million NTD in cash to purchase it. Therefore, management of cash flow is a crucial element.

         Solutions to the Problems:

       1. To deal with the human resource problems, we built staff quarters to give employees from out of town a safe place where they could sleep had live in. Starting this year we would have staff quarters so that talents from else whether would be able to join our team.

      2. To deal with financial problems, I think the most important part is be able to ask for help. Currently we do not have external funding. We use the cooperative method and cooperate with Lien Hwa Industrial. Lien Hwa Industrial would pay for the goods first, then Joy & Hope Workshop would buyback from them and this helped us lighten our financial load.

Mr. Ming-huang Shih of Joy & Hope Workshop(left) and Second Assistant Manager Bei-chen Huang (right) of Lien Hwa Industrial (right) Photo/Hui-chen Lin