Taiwan tribe despairs as drought shrinks bamboo crop | The Malaysian Insight

Taiwan’s Tsou tribe is concerned that drought is destroying bamboo, the cash crop the community depends on to survive. – Facebook pic, June 2, 2023.

HACKING at a bamboo plant with a machete, Avayi Vayayana peels back the shoot’s stiff bark as he scans southern Taiwan’s mountains, anxious for more of the money-making crop his indigenous tribe increasingly struggles to find. Generations of the Tsou tribe have lived off Alishan township’s bamboo forests, which Vayayana says were planted by his forefathers and typically harvested in April and May.

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