Millet used to be one the staples of Taiwan's Aborigines. But with the ROC government campaign to move Aboriginal villages after World War II, Aborigines became more and more removed from their fields, and many Aboriginal settlements haven't planted millet for decades. When Pan returned to Hanhsi, "growing traditional crops" became one of his main goals.
小米，曾是台灣原住民的主食之一，但隨著終戰後國民政府數度強迫遷村，原住民離耕地越來越遠，很多部落已有數十年未曾種植小米，潘今晟回寒溪部落時，便將「生產傳統農作」列為首要目標。