(News resource: AFA, Nov. 4, 2011, Chinese version)
According to the news from Taiwan Agriculture and Food Agency, AFA, The 2nd crop harvest in Taiwan had begun in the end of September. The planting area of 2nd crop is about 104,145 hectare, and about 6,771 hectare had been harvested.
from the second half of this year, AFA promises to provide another subsidy on rice farmers' expenses of public paddy drying, packaging, and stocking, which means a NTD$2 / kg of subsidy for farmers who submit new paddies as public stockpiles. The policy, of course, causes the recent paddy price 21% higher than the same period of last year.
