In 1989, the government began preparations to join the WTO. Farmers from all over Taiwan protested vigorously, and it was only in Ilan County that farmers continued to quietly work their fields without protest.
民國七十八年，政府開始為加入 WTO 鋪路，台灣各地農民抗爭四起，也只有宜蘭，在看來不變的山水之間，農民守分的耕作，不曾爭過什麼。