Having autonomy to choose their own crops and seeing that they would be hard-pressed to compete with South American or southern European beans in the local market, farmers chopped down their coffee trees and planted betelnut and tea instead.
光復後，公營農場放領給農民，有了自主權的農民看國內咖啡市場無法與南美、南歐競爭，紛紛將咖啡樹砍除，改種檳榔及茶樹。