It took Xiaojian ten years to convince his family to take up organic rice farming.

Through funny comics and hilarious videos, Little Sword shares the hardships of farming online. Ten years after returning to his hometown, he decided that at the age of thirty, he would realize his dream of growing organically. Little Sword says, "Ten years of conventional farming, seventy years of organic" is his goal, and he is grateful that conventional farming gave him the first pot of gold to pursue his organic dream. Over ten years, Little Sword's efforts in marketing, field management and rice harvesting have paid off, and he has finally opened up the "organic" topic that was taboo in his family, starting by trying one jia of land, and beginning with open field recognition of the grain.

The family taboo topic -- organic

Little Sword still remembers that when he first returned to Yuli Township in Hualien to farm, he was just a kid in the eyes of the neighbors, not even understanding the most basic conventional farming, let alone proposing organic farming to his family. Little Sword says that the words "Dad! I want to farm organically!" were at the time like a sealed secret code that could not be unlocked or mentioned.

Of Yuli's more than 4000 hectares of farmland, less than one thousandth is planted organically. Little Sword says that organic farming requires a clean water source and must be isolated from nearby pollution sources, but his fields are surrounded by conventional farming, and the neighboring old farmers with thirty to forty years of farming experience are all experts at precisely applying pesticides against pests and diseases. How could he persuade them to believe in organic?

Back then, Little Sword's father asked him: organic farming would halve his yield, and there was also the marketing problem, since no one in Yuli buys organic rice, so how would he solve these things? What impressed Little Sword most was that, to discourage him from growing organically, his father the next morning strapped on a herbicide sprayer, sprayed a circle in the field, and came before him to express his insistence on opposing it.

Once, Little Sword secretly rented five fen of land and excitedly told the neighboring old farmer that he was going to farm organically, only to be told: "Organic is all a lie, young man, don't do dishonest things!" The next day, he saw this old farmer raising his spray rod and spraying on the neighboring field. Facing all this opposition, although he was sad inside and felt that no one supported him, Little Sword told himself at the time: "Just because I can't do it now doesn't mean I won't be able to in the future!" He would first do conventional farming, make his pockets deeper, and prepare the first pot of gold for growing organically in the future.