🔼 Enterprises participating in the 2021 leopard cat rice fields restoration plan: Accton (1st and 2nd front row from the left, 3rd and 4th back row from the left), Timson Enterprise, WT Microelectronics (3rd and 6th front row from the left, 5th back row from the left), AcBel Polytech (1st front row from the right, 1st, 2nd, 6th and 7th back row from the left), Yi Lu Fa Painting (3rd from the right), Concord Advanced Technology (2nd from the right)

Accton Technology upholds the idea of “Making Partnership Work,” and we have expanded the idea to incorporate care for the land, society, and the global community. In 2020, Accton invested in the leopard cat rice fields restoration plan for the first time. In 2021, Accton and its supplier partners jointly expanded the recovery area and won the special award of the Ministry of Economic Affairs “2021 Buying Power Social Innovation Product and Service Procurement Incentive Mechanism” in the Environmental Sustainability Group, as well as the Third Place Award of the Purchasing Award, double awards affirmed.

2020 Project Launch

In 2019, Accton responded to the government’s policy on the return of Taiwanese businessmen by setting up more production lines in Miaoli. More than 1,000 colleagues served here, making Miaoli the second home of Accton. With the desire to give back to the local community, Accton announced the partnership with farmers of the leopard cat rice fields in Miaoli in March 2020. In response to the leopard cat rice field restoration plan of the social innovation organization – BlueMagpie Tea Social Enterprise, two leopard cat rice fields were officially established in Fengshu Village in Tongxiao, named “Ecological Feast Park” and “Diversity and Sharing Rice Field”, making Accton the company with the largest contracted farmland cultivation area.

🔼 Accton’s field of contracted cultivation, “Ecological Feast Park”

Call on 27 supplier partners to protect the leopard cat rice fields in 2021

Accton understands that the actions of an eco-friendly environment need the continuous support of enterprises. In addition to the requirement that it must sign a leopard cat rice contract with BlueMagpie Tea Social Enterprise for three consecutive years, it should also call on partners to invest and expand its influence. Therefore, at the supplier conference in October 2020, Accton shared with its partners the results of the harvest of leopard cat rice, as well as the exchange of ideas for the recovery of the leopard cat ecological watershed, and successively received enthusiastic responses, which led to more enthusiastic partners to join as guardians of the leopard cat rice fields in the spring of 2021. In April 2021, Accton announced that suppliers would cooperate in expanding the adopted area of the leopard cat rice field from 2.49 hectares to 5.1 hectares, bringing the total number of participating upstream and downstream partners to 27

🔼 Leopard cat rice fields of our supply partners – AcBel Polytech Inc., WT Microelectronics, Timson Enterprise Co., Ltd.

Support for social innovation products – Fengshuwo Leopard Cat Rice

BlueMagpie Tea Social Enterprise is committed to building a pesticide-free ecological village with “River Basin Recovery” as the core spirit. In addition to the road kills seen on the news, the reasons for the disappearance of leopard cats included the consumption of prey harmed by pesticides, and the use of animal traps or poisons by farmers to harm the leopard cats in order to protect their poultry. Therefore, the ecological agriculture brand Fengshuwo Leopard Cat Rice, launched by BlueMagpie Tea Social Enterprise, supports the organic rice grown by farmers in friendly farming methods, protects leopard cats and their habitat ecology, makes leopard cats and local residents, farmers, and the whole environment can live in a sustainable symbiosis. The non-toxic and friendly farmland restoration has cultivated a rich habitat ecology, and wild animals such as leopard cats, crab-eating mongooses, and bamboo partridges are gradually appearing. It is hoped that the number of leopard cats will grow faster in the future.

Looking forward to 2022 with continuous protection

At present, Accton once again calls on enthusiastic supply partners to participate in the 2022 Leopard Cat Rice Farming Project, together with the protection of the leopard cat habitat, to create an “Ecological Feast Park” where wildlife, local farmers, and the whole environment will live in symbiosis.

Key Actions:

✨ In 2020, Accton was the company with the largest contracted farmland cultivation area of 2.49 hectares (about 1 acre of land).

✨ In 2021, Accton called 27 supplier partners to join the recovery of the Leopard Cat Rice Basin, and the total contracted area of Accton and the supply partners reached 5.1 hectares.

✨ Participated in the “Caring for Leopard Cats & Food Guardian” event held during the Miaoli Children’s Month in 2021 to provide 600 kg of leopard cat rice for the nutritional lunch of 8 elementary schools and junior high schools in Miaoli County, so that children can share the spirit of tasting, understanding the leopard cat field basin, and feel the beauty of the home environment.

✨ In 2021, through the matchmaking and introduction of Silver Gate, a food delivery platform for the elderly, we came to know their long-term cooperation and support of the elderly canteen in Xingcun, Chiayi City. In addition to promising to donate an amount for purchasing 90 kilograms of rice every month to make up for the needs of the canteen, Accton also set one day a week as Leopard Cat Rice Day, so that the elders can eat fully, deliciously, and environmentally friendly.

✨ Leopard Cat Rice has become the corporate gift of Accton Group from 2020 to 2021. We promoted leopard cat and ecological conservation and the influence of responsible consumption by sharing leopard cat rice with Accton’s customers, colleagues, and public welfare groups.

🔼 Caring for Leopard Cats & Food Guardian Press Conference

🔼 Donation of leopard cat rice to the elderly canteen in Xingcun, Chiayi

Accton participated in the environmental sustainability activity of the Leopard Cat Rice Farming Project and echoed the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals, including:

• SDG 2: Achieving food security, improving nutrition, and promoting sustainable agriculture.
• SDG 8: Small farmers’ co-farming promotes sustained, inclusive, and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment, and decent work for all.
• SDG 12: Ensuring sustainable consumption and production patterns (responsible consumption).
• SDG15: Ensure biodiversity.
• SDG 17: Partnerships for Goal Achievement.

🔼 Accton Technology received the “Buying Power” Environmental Sustainability Special Award and Purchasing Award. Lucille Lu, Senior Marketing Manager (on the right), accepts the award on behalf of Accton.

Award-winning news:

Accton Technology calls on 27 supplier partners to protect the Leopard Cat Valley Winning the Buying Power Environmental Sustainability Special Award and Purchasing Award

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Respond to World Earth Day Action | Accton’s call for more than 20 supplier partners to participate in the Leopard Cat Rice Farming Project!

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