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Agricultural Policies in Action

Promoting the Green Environmental Payment Program

and Expanding Domestic Grain Cultivation

To optimize the rice industry’s structure and increase
domestic grain supply, the AFA continues to promote the
Green Environmental Payment Program. This program
targets farmland meeting specific criteria, providing
incentives for cultivating strategic crops that can reduce
imports or increase export potential, as well as growing
local specialty crops. The program also provides basic
grants to encourage farmers who maintain agricultural
production on farmland. These incentives aim to protect
valuable agricultural land resources and recognize the
multiple benefits that well-managed farmland provides.
The AFA is also implementing the "Big Granary Program" in specific regions, including:
areas with low yields of second-crop rice in north Taiwan; coastal areas in central Taiwan where
ratoon rice is grown; areas along the high-speed rail corridor in Changhua, Yunlin, and Chiayi
(where land subsidence occurs); and double-cropping rice areas in southern
Taiwan. This program guides the conversion of rice paddies to grain
cultiva tion, introduces market differentiation mechanisms,
creates links with processing industries, organizes
marketing and educational activities, and
establishes strategic alliances within the grain
industry to increase cultivation area and
production efficiency.

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