(13 Mar 2007)
Tainan County, Taiwan - 10 March 2007
1. Wide of Taiwan International Orchid Show
2. Top pan right of orchid show
3. Close-up white flower (Phalaenopsis alliance)
4. Overseas buyers choosing plants
5. Wide of buyers visiting booths selling orchids
6. Close-up purple flower (Phalaenopsis alliance)
7. Close-up yellow flower (Phalaenopsis alliance)
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Rene A. Kleinveld, buyer from Netherlands:
"In terms of what the market demands, Taiwan is ahead of the development in Europe if you talk about the spectrum of the many different varieties."
9. Pan right of plants inside greenhouse of Taiwan Sugar Corporation
10. Worker watering plant
11. Buyers visiting greenhouse
12. CEO of Agriculture-business division of Taiwan Sugar Corporation Stella Yuan showing buyers plants
13. Pot of yellow flower (Phalaenopsis Tsisuco Glory) winning champion in Japan Grand Prix International Orchid Festival 2007
14. Awards received by Taiwan Sugar Corporation on various orchid festivals
15. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Stella Yuan, CEO of Agriculture Business Division of Taiwan Sugar Corporation:
"We have more varieties than in other places. We have good weather condition for this. Our farmers show interest in planting Phalaenopsis. We have a lot of plant breeders. Therefore our advantage is that we can invent (different varieties of Phalaenopsis)."
16. Wide of pots of Phalaenopsis orchids
17. Close-up a kind of Phalaenopsis orchids
18. Wide of head of orchid nursery using computer
19. Close-up monitor showing figures of temperature, humidity and intensity of light inside each greenhouse
20. Mid of temperature and humidity controller inside greenhouse
21. Close-up monitor showing figures of of temperature, humidity and intensity of light of the greenhouse
Ilan County, Taiwan - 7 March 2007
22. Wide of exterior greenhouses of King Car Biotechnology Industrial Company Limited
23. Wide of fans inside greenhouse
24. Wide of interior of greenhouse
25. Tilt up from plant to worker checking plant
26. Worker watering plants
27. Close-up white flower (Phalaenopsis alliance)
28. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Yu Ji-hong, Head of Production line of King Car Biotechnology Industrial Company Limited:
"We consider those widely accepted by the people as good species. We clone the good species in a short period of time in a mass volume. We standardise our products."
29. Wide of interior of production line
30. Mid of workers on the production line
31. Workers selecting best buds for culture
32. Close-up plant like bodies being cut into small pieces
33. Plant like bodies being put into jar with layer of nutrients at the bottom of jar
34. Worker putting plant like bodies into jar
35. Flasks containing plant like bodies placed on tray
36. Trays of flasks being placed into shelves with ultraviolet lamps
37. Wide shot flasks placed under ultraviolet lamps to speed up the growth of plants
38. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Vincent Peng, King Car Biotechnology Industrial Company spokesman:
"So far, we can produce about 6 million orchid plants per year. Over half of the orchids are for exports. Part of our plants are purchased by domestic farmers for breeding locally."
39. Close-up machine injecting nutrients into flasks
40. Wide shot engineer monitoring the injection
41. Close-up an engineer pushing a deck of pots into a disinfector
42. Close-up closing the disinfector's cover
Tainan County, Southern Taiwan - 10 March 2007
43. Various workers packing plants into box for overseas sale
44. Two workers carrying box packed with orchids plants
Taipei City, Taiwan - 12 March 2007
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