Further, with recent trade liberalization has come a large influx of foreign agriculture products and intense market competition. Because R.O.C. farms are small-scale and costs are high, it is difficult to compete with countries where agriculture operations are on a large scale; moreover, labor costs are high in the R.O.C. and it is not easy to compete with low labor cost systems.
再者，近年來由於我貿易自由化的推進，大量國外農產品的進口，形成國內農產品市場劇烈競爭的局面，我國農場規模小，生產成本高，在市場上難與大農制粗放經營之國家競爭，另一方面我國勞力成本高，也不容易與後進小農制之低工資農產品相競爭。