The price of betel nut in Taiwan has dropped. What is the price of betel nut in Taiwan now? what is the acreage of betel nut orchard?

Taiwan's betel nut orchard waste garden and conversion policy will be restarted this year, but only until December 31, qualified betel nut farmers can apply to the public office where the land is located. The subsidy for the waste garden is 150000 yuan per hectare, while the conversion fee ranges from 50 to 100000 yuan depending on the flat land or mountainous areas. the Council of Agriculture expects that the area of the waste garden will be increased by 600 hectares.

Chen Li-Yi, chief of the Fruit Tree Section of the Agriculture and Food Department, explained that from 1993 to 106, the area of the waste betel nut orchard in Taiwan was about 720 hectares. in response to the needs of farmers, the waste garden was restarted this year as a subsidy policy. Betel nut farmers who are located in urban planned "agricultural areas" and "agricultural and animal husbandry land" on non-urban land can apply to the township offices where the land is located, and the rest is the same as the 106-year plan.

The price of betel nut is not as good as the increase in inducement. Yao Zhiwang, sub-director of the Southern Branch of the Agriculture and Food Department, says that at present, Pingtung County has the largest area of betel nut production in Taiwan, accounting for about 1 / 4 of Taiwan's output. however, in 106, the conversion area in the south was less than 2000 hectares. Yao Zhiwang explained that because the price of betel nut in 106 was high, and the price per jin could reach 1000 yuan, the incentive for betel nut farmers was not high. However, based on the current harvest price, each unit is only 180 to 280 yuan. He judged that the area of conversion in the south is expected to increase this year.

Yao Zhiwang added that betel nut used to be called a "green gold crop" brought huge economic benefits to the central and southern part of the country, but with the decline of the population of people eating betel nut and worries about disease, the government began to encourage farmers to switch to planting cash crops such as camphor, lemon and fragrant lemon. Yao Zhiwang further said that the Pingtung producing area has high commercial value for enterprises because of its fertile land and large area, so he also encourages betel nut farmers to take advantage of this policy subsidy to apply as soon as possible, and the Southern District Branch will assist farmers to contact enterprises for contracts to reduce losses during the transfer period.