Making matters worse for local growers, the COA's NT $ 15,000 subsidy will be eliminated and the raw materials market opened to international competition in 2008. With their incomes from energy crops likely to fall, farmers will almost certainly plant less.
加上 2008 年起，料源供應開放自由競爭，農委會必須取消 1 萬 5,000 元的資材補貼，農民一般多認為不划算，耕作面積恐將持續減少。