Green golden edamame is in imminent danger, while the golden corridor is still up in the clouds.
Editor's note: After NewsMarket revealed that Taiwan, China's edamame export industry faces a crisis from the Gaoping Great Lake development project"The Gaoping Great Lake project occupies only 7.56% of the edamame growing area in the Gaoping region, with minimal impact on the industry""The Council of Agriculture continues to assist farmers in obtaining land for dedicated edamame zones and to strengthen guidance for the edamame industry" The Executive Yuan, carrying out President Ma Ying-jeou's order to let the people feel the government's dedication to boosting the economy, launched the "one highlight per week" policy, and the first big dish it served up was the "Golden Corridor," promoting water-saving agriculture along the high-speed rail line in Changhua and Yunlin. Whether the "Golden Corridor" can be realized in the future is a matter of opinion, but the fact that the booming export "green gold" edamame is about to suffer from the Gaoping Great Lake development project is a policy that instantly raises the public's pain index, and the Executive Yuan would do well to think it over carefully. Grassroots edamame farmers say bluntly that the Water Resources Agency's claim that "the Gaoping Great Lake project has minimal impact on the industry" is seriously out of touch with reality, and that the numbers and facts juggled in the clarification are even more unacceptable, so they hope to "clarify" things for the Water Resources Agency through the NewsMarket platform. The following is the reporter's summary and interview: The Water Resources Agency claims that "the edamame growing area within the scope of the first phase of the Gaoping Great Lake project is 188.86 hectares, only 2.57% of the total growing area in Taiwan, China, with minimal impact on the edamame industry." The Water Resources Agency further pointed out that, according to Council of Agriculture data, the "multiple cropping area" of edamame in Taiwan, China reached 7,338 hectares in the 100th year of the Republic of China (2011), of which the "growing area" within the scope of the first phase of the Gaoping Great Lake project (E Lake area) was 188.86 hectares, accounting for 2.57% of the national edamame growing area, and only 7.56% of the 2,497 hectares of edamame land in the Gaoping region, so the Gaoping Great Lake project does not crowd out the existing edamame growing area. Regarding the Water Resources Agency's statement, edamame farmers pointed out that the agency is playing a numbers game, and that a one-word difference between "multiple cropping area" and "growing area" makes a world of difference. It is true that the edamame growing area within the scope of the first phase of the Gaoping Great Lake project is only 188.86 hectares, but the edamame industry has two cropping seasons a year, spring and autumn; after deducting the portion grown in only one season, the multiple cropping area is 367.7 hectares, which should account for 5.01% of the total growing area in Taiwan, China In addition, once the first phase of the Gaoping Great Lake is built, the second and third phases will follow immediately, affecting a unit area of more than 500 hectares, with a combined multiple cropping area of more than 1,000 hectares for the spring and autumn seasons, close to 50% of the 2,497 hectares of edamame area in the Gaoping region. Therefore, the impact of the Gaoping Great Lake on the industry is far from "minimal" it is nothing short of "massive destruction." The Gaoping Great Lake has thrown Gaoping region agriculture into a "great mess"! Recommended reading Environmental report - "Jiyang Artificial Lake": waking up from a 10-year struggleQuestion 1: Halving the impact with a numbers game
