In the past the local aboriginals lived by growing bamboo and planting trees, but the bamboo can only be harvested once every three to five years, and the subsidy of NT $ 150,000 per hectare which the government pays to encourage afforestation "is not for one year, but for until the trees are grown," as Mr. Chiang, an agricultural technician with Fuhsing Rural Township Council stresses.
尤其復興鄉的原住民保留地面積佔了全鄉百分之二十二，過去原住民靠種桂竹、造林過日，桂竹三、五年收成一次，政府鼓勵造林一公頃補貼十五萬，「不是一年，是種到長大才十五萬」，復興鄉公所江姓農業技士強調，水蜜桃的收益好多了。