Although people are eating less rice, the crop is still Taiwan's largest, with more than 300,000 hectares in production (representing 40 % of Taiwan's agricultural land) and 290,000 rice farming families (or half of Taiwan's farming population).
米吃得少，但稻作仍是台灣農業的最大產業，全國三十萬公頃稻田，占農地總面積的近四成，二十九萬戶稻農，占農業就業人口一半以上。