These days when you mention mountain agriculture, most people think of rampant overuse of slopeland, pollution of reservoirs and water sources, and landslides. Less and less do people associate fruit and vegetable farming in mountain areas with the traditional ideal of the sturdy hard-working farmer, but rather, increasingly, with gold-diggers who think of nothing but their own profit.
災變頻仍，提到高山農業，今人聯想的，不外乎山坡地濫墾、污染水庫水源，甚至引發土石流；山區果農、菜農，也與辛勤耕耘的形象漸行漸遠，取而代之的，恐怕是汲汲營營的淘金客。