WTO membership will be a blow to many agricultural counties, but in recent years tourist farms have sprouted up. These new operations offer rural residents a new way to make a living by offering visitors a taste of specialty products and unique local cultural attractions. Many novel ideas, like liquor-producing towns, and farming villages specializing in vanilla and other local crops, have appeared.
雖然 WTO 將對許多農業縣造成衝擊，但各鄉鎮特產與地方文化、社區結合的休閒農業，也在這幾年為地方帶來商機，酒莊、香草農莊……，農業出現了許多新奇而浪漫的構想，許多點子聽起來或許遙遠，卻在落實當中。