A researcher studies orchid seedlings in a laboratory in Wengyuan county in Guangdong province. Wengyuan, a hilly subtropical county in the northern part of Guangdong province, has seen its orchid farming sector blossom from zero to an annual 3 billion-yuan business over the past 25 years. The industry began when Taiwan businesspeople engaged in floraculture in Guangdong learned that orchids …
When Tsao Te-shing from Taichung in Taiwan visited a friend in Guangdong province in 1996, he had little inkling he would become part of a multibillion yuan orchid industry that today supplies the majority of the Chinese market. Back then, orchid growing was a rare agricultural venture on the Chinese mainland, while Taiwan had a sizable orchid industry, he said. …
