The most obvious change has been the decline of agriculture. Chung points out that many fields are overgrown. He explains that with the young people having gone away to work and incomes from farming being slight, many farmers have simply given up farming. They prefer to let their fields lie fallow, taking government assistance to seek non-farming work.
農業衰退是最明顯的，「很多田在那裡長草」，鍾沐卿說，由於年輕人口外移、加上種田收益不好，很多人乾脆休耕，領休耕、轉作補助。