Statistics show that over NT $ 4 million (US $ 100,000) is spent by farmers in Taiwan each year on pesticides to protect coconut trees alone. A further look at coconut trees serves to better illustrate this problem.
這些具有經濟與觀賞雙重價值的椰樹，株株就此成為無用的禿桿。據估計，人工不算，農民每年至少花費四百萬的農藥費，來拯救這些椰子，蟲害情況卻每下愈況。