The Dissemination of Agricultural Culture from Mainland to Taiwan in the Ming and Qing Dynasties

Taiwan's agriculture was undeveloped before the Ming Dynasty because its agriculture still remained at the stage of primitive agriculture,which largely restricted Taiwan's agricultural economic development.Until the Zheng period,with the entry of massive immigrants from Mainland,and the late Qing Dynasty's immigrating policy of encouraging the reclamation in Taiwan,as well as effective short-term Management of the first Taiwan governor Liu Ming-chuan,the advanced agricultural culture of Mainland has been disseminated gradually and widely from Mainland to Taiwan.As a result,Taiwan's agriculture has been developed rapidly,which laid a solid foundation for Taiwan to become one region that achieves early economic take-off.