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1 Green Environment Payment Policy, creating a virtuous agri-food cycle

ice is the most important food crop in Taiwan. sustainable fashion
RTo ensure farmers’ income, stable prices and To ensure a stable supply of domestic food
balance supply-demand of rice, the authority has been and proper utilization of agricultural land, the AFA
purchasing rice at guaranteed price as security stock encourages farmers to cultivate crops that can
since 1974. The security stock secures the country’s substitute for imports, have the export potential and
food supply and is released to the military and civilians. are of local features or to maintain the production
It helped the country survive through the global environment on the same field only once every year to
food crisis during 2007 and 2008 and played a role promote agricultural sustainability.
in stabilizing food prices and ensuring domestic food
security during the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Along with the diet westernization and diversification
and the habit of eating out, the rice consumption has
decreased; thus the AFA actively adjust the agricultural
industry to ensure domestic food supply.
Utilize agricultural land in a proper and

Keep agricultural land under cultivation
In order to maintain the limited environmental
resources for agricultural production in the country,
the "Basic Payment for Agricultural Environment" will
be given to farmers farming and grazing on land in
non-urban specific agricultural areas and general
agricultural areas to maintain the production of
agricultural crops from 2020 onwards, promoting
the maintenance of the farming environment and a
sustainable positive cycle.

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