And because vegetable farms are labor intensive, most of the village's children are pushed to work there as soon as they graduate from junior high. Thus the track to education and work outside the village is broken. The impact has been to limit the horizons and imagination of the village.
又由於菜園需要大量勞動力，部落裡的孩子國中畢業後往往被迫留鄉務農，斷了外出求學與工作之路，使得部落的視野與想像都受到侷限。