"Joining the WTO was naturally a significant factor, but from another angle it simply brought the problems of Taiwan agricultural development into higher relief," says Professor Tsai Hung-chin. "Small-scale farming, unclear policies, plus a production and marketing structure and technology that was behind the times-Taiwan agriculture was already burdened with myriad problems."
「入 WTO 當然是重要因素，但是換個角度看，入 WTO 只是讓台灣的農業發展的問題更凸顯而已，」蔡宏進教授表示，「小農格局、政策不明，再加上產銷結構與技術跟不上時代，台灣農業本來就問題重重。」