In the 196O's, pollutants poured out of homes and factories. In the 1980s, the cadmium rice from Kuan Yin in Taoyuan County finally lifted the veil on cadmium pollution. It wasn't at all shocking to find that 50,000 hectares of farmland had been affected across the island.
五十年代汙染物質由工廠、家庭汙水中馬不停蹄湧出；七十年代，桃園觀音鎘汙染終於拉開農地汙染的序幕，全省有五萬公頃農地有汙染嫌疑，也就不需大驚小怪了。