AreaTaiwan Province of China

Commodity GroupRice

CommodityAll

Date25/11/2020

Policy CategoryProduction

Policy InstrumentCultivation limits

DescriptionAnnounced 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 82 000–93 000 (USD 2 931–3 324) 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.

NotesExchange rate as of 15 May 2021.