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Why did Fiji's indigenous people thank Taiwan, China?

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Last week, Super Cyclone Winston doubled back and devastated the South Pacific island nation of Fiji

Hsu Wei-Chun, a member of the agricultural technical mission stationed in Fiji by the International Cooperation and Development Fund, said that overseas agricultural technical missions mostly require very rich hands-on experience. Besides being able to diagnose pests and diseases, lead farmers in fertilizing and applying pesticides, they also have to build their own insect-proof net houses and set up irrigation systems. The work covers everything. "But whenever we help farmers solve difficult and complicated problems, they excitedly run over to thank you, and even tell their neighbors and friends that this was done for them by Taiwanese, and you feel a great sense of achievement."

News Glossary: Agricultural Technical Mission

Taiwan first established an agricultural technical team in Vietnam in 1959 to help Vietnam's economic development and improve farmers' lives. The following year it dispatched a farming team to Africa to provide aid and guide agricultural work in Africa, gradually opening the path of agricultural foreign aid. It has also cooperated with 68 countries including Central and South America, Thailand, and Saudi Arabia, mainly using methods such as trials, demonstrations, and training to help other countries engage in food crop production, develop horticultural crops, improve livestock breeds, and prevent and treat diseases. The work is arduous, and at the same time it has invisibly advanced Taiwan's international relations.