Issue Date：August 19, 2025
 

Farm the Hopes

In 2014, employees of the Hsinchu Headquarter and Chunan Office began to create a brand-new model to pay back society from daily meals. This thus gave birth to the "Farm the Hopes". Through collaboration with social enterprise "Buy Nearby" and "Earth Friend Organic", we purchase organic vegetable from small farms in local communities as nutritional vegetable for employee lunch. Apart from taking care of employee health, we can help small farms increase their income.
 

For the purpose of easily obtain organic fruits and vegetables for our employees, we have cooperated with the social enterprise "Buy Nearby" to create an exclusive organic and fruit purchase platform “CoreLOHAS” for our employees, which will online provide our employees with organic fruits and vegetables and products from small agricultural farmers that are directly delivered from the farms.
 

In addition, we have purchased Miaoli Yuanli rice from the social enterprise "Buy Nearby" as a gift for shareholders since 2011, to expand the scope and beneficial result of the farm of hopes. We are also pay attention to the current agricultural situation in Taiwan and provide timely support to farmers who are in difficult situation. The price of cabbage dropped tremendously in 2018 which was a huge loss to the farmers. We cooperated with the social enterprise－Buy Nearby, and bought 4,828 cabbages (about 7,242 kg) from farmers in Nantou County and Yunlin County, at a price that is higher than the market price. The purchased cabbages were given to our employees and each of the staff received 2 cabbages as a gift. Our employees had posted many messages on the Company’s FB fan page to support this warm-hearted event organized by the Company.

【Employees' Lunch and Organic Produce Sourcing】

  • Purchased over 203.5 tons of organic vegetables from social enterprises "Buy Nearby" and "Earth Friend" for employee meals, with a total procurement amount of nearly NTD 14.1 million.
  • Purchased 190 tons of rice from Yuanli Township, Miaoli County from the social enterprise "Buy Nearby" as gifts for shareholders meetings, furthermore, hired people with intellectual disabilities from the Jixian and Tzu Yu sheltered workshops in New Taipei City to package the rice.
  • Purchased over 8 tons of organic vegetables from "Buy Nearby" for supporting small agricultural farmers.

【Breakroom Offering Fair Trade Products】
  • Purchased over 3 ton of fair-trade coffee beans from the social enterprise "OKOGREEN" to share with employees.

【Awards】
  • From 2017 to 2024, has been awarded the "Buying Power- The New Product and Service of Social Innovation Purchase Reward Program" for the 8 consecutive years.
Spent NTD 31.56 million
Organic Vegetables & Fair Trade Coffee Beans215 tons
Miaoli Rice190 tons

Note: Achievement until December 31, 2024

2014/6 ~ 2014/9
Stage 1
Integrating vulnerable farmers in remote areas and establishing a stable supply model
  1. Provide field management guidance for vulnerable farmers to achieve stable supply once a week.
  2. Establish a standard operating procedure for farmers to harvest, gather, and deliver vegetable.
2014/9 ~ 2014/12
Stage 2
Hiring low-income families, revitalizing idle farmland, and organic vegetable certification for the first yield
  1. Train and hire parents of students from low-income families for long-term work at farms.
  2. Hire old farmers to manage farms to stabilize income from sales.
  3. Lease revitalized abandoned farmland to cultivate wasteland into farmland.
  4. First yield from the revitalized farmland passed organic vegetable certification.
2014/12 ~ now
Stage 3
Establishing a sustainable model, communicating with stakeholders, and expanding the scope of aid
  1. Establish various standard operating procedures.
  2. Identify the expectations of stakeholders from the plan.
  3. Communicate stakeholders with text, videos, and volunteer activities based on their expectations.
  4. Reproduce the "Farm the Hopes" to continuously expand the area of organic farming and hire more vulnerable groups.

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