Area
Taiwan province of China
Commodity Group
Rice
Commodity
All
Date
25/11/2020
Policy Category
Production
Policy Instrument
Cultivation limits
Description
Announced that it would suspend irrigation for 19 000 ha of 2021 main-crop paddies in the Jianan Plain due to water shortages resulting from unseasonable dryness and suppressed typhoon activity in 2020. Affected producers would be extended a TWD 82 00093 000 (USD 2 9313 324) per ha outlay as compensation for losses incurred. Similar restrictions were successively announced for 56 000 ha of farmland, mostly consisting of paddies, in Hsinchu, Miaoli and Taichung and areas of Taoyuan.
Notes
Exchange rate as of 15 May 2021.
