A Study of Time-space Allocation of Agricultural Activities in Nan-shan Village
Date Issued
2006
Date
2006
Author(s)
Ma, Chih-Chien
DOI
zh-TW
Abstract
Because of the influence of the geographical location, climate and special conditions of geology and topography, natural disasters, such as earthquakes, typhoons, floods, mudflows and landslides occur frequently in Taiwan. Vegetable cultivation in mountain slopeland makes people think of over-cultivation, the pollution of water resources, and deterioration of natural conservation. Since the 1960s, the development of high-mountain agriculture used to make Taiwan agriculture prosperous. Due to the cool climatic condition in the mountain areas, people cultivate lower-temperature vegetables and harvest in different seasons from those in plain areas. Based on the methodology of time-geography, this study attempts to discuss the relationship between the activities of high mountain vegetable farmers and the cultivated environment. Through literature review, participating observation and interviewing, the research has recorded the time-space allocation of the land use activities in Nan-shan tribe and found out how vegetable farmers set up the sequence of cultivating management and employee organizations. In additions, the differences between the aborigines and non-aborigines in the time-space allocation of the land use activities has been analyzed as well.
The survey results indicate that the vegetable farmers conduct a series of working activities, inclusive of seeding, land-mending, planting, irrigating, fertilizing, spraying and harvesting. During the period of harvest, due to the demand of labor, regular employee organizations including planting team, fertilizing team and harvesting team are formed. Besides, during the period of survey, another special task force form of employ organization named pulling vegetable team was formed because of the strike of typhoon Hai-Tang.
The finding of this research is that the high mountain vegetable farmers in Nan-Shan area use the cool climatic condition in the mountainous area to harvest their vegetables that differentiate from those in lowland areas in different seasons. The research results explain that the agricultural activities of vegetable farmers and employees are not only related to space movement but also consumption of time. What can not be separated is the interaction of time and space in the series of activities. The tradition way of working with the sunrise and resting with the sunset is no longer a life model for the vegetable farmers in Nan-shan tribe. The special agricultural forms, the so called –｀firefly’farmers and employee culture, have taken its place.
Subjects
南山部落
時間地理學
Nan-shan tribe
time-geography
high mountain vegetable cultivation
vegetable farmers
Type
thesis
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