Growing Pains--Ilan Contract Farmers Fight to Stay in Business With Taiwan's entry into the World Trade Organization, its rice farmers, previously protected by policies of guaranteed purchases and subsidies for leaving land uncultivated, are apparently now the least competitive economic group in Taiwan. The government is therefore urging that rice fields be taken out of production or converted to other crops.
台灣加入 WTO 後，過去在保證收購、休耕補貼政策保護下的稻農，幾乎成為台灣最缺乏競爭力的一群，政府也因此加速推動稻田休耕與轉作。