At one point, agricultural agencies tried to address this by promoting mechanization and large-scale farming, but the production costs of Taiwanese agriculture remain far higher than in Australia and North America.
農政單位曾致力推行機械化與擴大經營規模，台灣農業生產成本還是遠遠高過澳洲、美加，米價一直是國際的兩倍以上。