Chen Ho-Cheng - He Wants To Be A Dairy Farmer
Milk is an important food to the Republic of China. There are
citizens of Formosa, the island of very few dairy cows on the
some 15 million people which is island, though, and still fewer
home for the Nationalist dairy farmers.
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An Elizabeth Township farm
couple, Mr. and Mrs. John
Farrington, Speedwell Forge
Road, are helping to solve the
milk shortage in Formosa which
is also known as Taiwan. A young
Formosan, Chen Ho-Cheng, is
staying on the Farrington farm
learning all he can about
dairying. Chen will be with the
Farringtons for 17 months, then
he’ll go either to the University of
Maryland or Penn State for
another three months of intensive
training. Sometime around
March or April of 1975, Chen will
be returning home with enough
dairy knowledge to manage a
small farm.
Chen Ho-Cheng is an intense
young man who’s very eager to
learn about dairy farming. Ke
said most of his country’s milk
now is imported from the U. S.,
New Zealand or Japan, an ex
pensive way to fill a country’s
milk needs. A dairy industry
takes time to develop, however,
and the Formosan government is
now trying to develop enough
dairy farmers with the
knowledge to sustain a depen
dable supply of milk.
Chen is one of 32 young For
mosans brought to this country
through the cooperation of the
Formosan government and the
National 4-H Council here in the
U. S. Another 25 went to New
Zealand. All were hand-picked
from a group of over 1000 ap
plicants.
Although he does get homesick,
Chen reported that he’s pleased
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, Octobers, 1973
Chen Ho-Cheng, a young Formosan farmer, is learning to be
a dairy farmer during a 17-month stay on the John
Farrington farm, Lititz RD2.
with the U. S. and is enjoying his
stay here. Of the 31 other
potential dairymen who came
here with Chen in June, only one
has so far returned home. There
are five more Formosans in
Lancaster County and one each in
Berks and Lebanon Counties.
Like Chen, most of the group
went to small family operations,
because that’s the kind of farm
they’ll be operating when they
return-" home. The Formosan
government will probably help
the young trainees get ilito the
milk business. Chen said he
expects to start farming with
anywhere from four to six hec
tares when he return home. A
hectare is about two-and-a-half
acres.
Chen’s parents now live on a
one hectare farm where they
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Chen lived with his parents
before coming here and helped
them with the farm chores He
also worked full-time for the
Taiwan Fertilizer Company on
their experimental farm. Chen’s
father works off the farm, too, for
a pineapple company.
Chen’s English is a thousand
times better than most
Americans’ Chinese, but he still'
has some trouble com
municating. In conversation, he
smiles a lot, gestures, and oc
cassionally grabs for the Chinese-
English phrase book he always
carries with him. The exact
words don’t always come
through, but he does manage to
convey his enthusiasm for dairy
farming, and his eagerness to
help solve his country’s milk
supply problems.
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