You plant rice, I plant water Back in 1985, faced with overproduction of rice, the government began to encourage taking rice fields out of production or converting them to other crops. Ilan virtually terminated its winter crop of rice, which had previously been grown on more than 12,000 hectares of land, only continuing to produce one crop a year on about 13,000 hectares.
從民國七十四年糧食生產過剩，政府陸續鼓勵稻農休耕與轉作，宜蘭冬季一萬二千多公頃的二期稻作幾已全數休耕，只維持一萬三千公頃的一期稻作。