The rezoning of farmland in Ilan has pushed thousands of hectares, four times the total of the whole country in five years. Friendly small farmers: destroying shallow mountain terraces violates the spirit of Lishan

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Recently, there has been a trend of agricultural land rezoning in Ilan. Following the rezoning of agricultural land in the cities of Jinshan and Shangde, Fucheng and Ercheng have also been included in the scope of agricultural land rezoning. Although the county government has temporarily suspended the rezoning of agricultural land in Toucheng because the number of landlords has not reached more than half of the legal number, this year, the total area of agricultural land rezoning in Ilan is as high as 965 hectares (note). This year, the total area of agricultural land rezoning in Ilan is as high as 965 hectares, more than four times the total of 253 hectares in the last five years counted by the Ministry of the Interior.

Li Baolian, a fruit grower who initiated a workshop to protect Ilan and advocated the use of agricultural land, said: "not rezoning agricultural land may have been a disadvantage in the past, but in this era it may be an advantage." Li Baolian suggested that agricultural administrative units should keep pace with the times. We should see the multiple values of the rural landscape as intangible cultural wealth, respect the history of people and land, and review the necessity of farmland rezoning.

Comparison of farmland rezoning before (above) and after (bottom)

The farmland in the unrezoned Fucheng area of Toucheng slowly descends along the mountain, and the stones taken from the soil are piled up to form a barge. Those who oppose the rezoning believe that the natural terraced landscape is the wisdom of the ancestors' reclamation and the historical memory of blood and sweat (Photography / Lin Jiyang)

Sixteen years after the rezoning of agricultural land, with external roads and independent irrigation and drainage, some agricultural land has been inserted with signs for public sale (Photography / Lin Jiyang). The rezoning of agricultural land is concentrated in the plain area, and it does not make sense for the rezoning to go uphill.

According to the land laws and regulations, the rezoning of agricultural land refers to: "the distorted and fragmented land shall be merged and distributed to make the cultivated land square and facilitate the management of mechanical farming." Second, set up agricultural roads and irrigation and drainage facilities in the field, so that each block is directly near the road, direct irrigation and drainage, so as to effectively improve the agricultural production environment and improve farming efficiency. "

Farmland rezoning reached its peak from 1960 to 1980, and priority was given to large plain areas, so farmland rezoning was mostly concentrated in Yunjiannan Plain. Since the social changes since the 1990s, a large area of farmland has almost been rezoned. This time, most of the cases of farmland rezoning in Ilan are on the zero gentle slope at the foot of the mountain, so the necessity is questioned.

Yang Wenquan, a doctor in urban and rural planning and a former director of agriculture, pointed out that "it is not easy to redraw areas with the current model of agricultural land rezoning because of the fact that it is near the mountain and facing the water, and the height difference is large." One cannot help but ask, "since zero land with a large slope and near water sources is not suitable for agricultural land rezoning, why do you still insist on promoting the management?"

Kang Fang-Ming, convener of the Xixi Alliance in Ilan, points out that as soon as farmland is rezoned, it is easy to cross the threshold of farmhouses, and the price of farmland immediately doubles. Most of the agricultural land rezoning areas belong to the buffer zone around cities and towns and high mountains, with a landscape vision. In recent years, the land price of Jiaoxi sixteen-node rezoning area has risen above, so that other villages and towns have followed suit.

Lao Nong: many investors from Taipei come to see the land. The better the view, the higher the price.

The reporter went to Jiaoxi sixteen-knot farmland rezoning area to explore the causes of this wave of farmland rezoning craze. According to the Ministry of the Interior, the Sixteen Section of Jiaoxi (77 hectares) completed in 2015 and the Great Lake Section of Yuanshan (92 hectares) completed in 014 are the two most recent farmland rezoning cases in Ilan.

"Lin Congxian (former Yilan county magistrate) restricted the farmhouse! Let's not go up the price of farmland! I can't sell it! It's really abhorrent! " According to reason, as long as the farmhouse does not interfere with others, we should be free to decide to build it. " The reporter inquired about the old farmers who made tea in front of the Tiannong Palace, and you cursed the restrictions on the qualifications of farmhouses, which made the trading volume of agricultural land inactive.

The visit found that the Sixteen-knot rezoning area is located on a secluded and gentle slope next to the Jiaoxi city, overlooking the Jiaoxi city, with a good environment and a good field of vision. visually, it is a rezoned area of agricultural land, more like a suburban new town. And from time to time in the shallow mountain area, crested vultures can be seen hovering over the hillside forest.

In the rezoned area, several agricultural lands have been announced for sale, and several sporadic farmhouses have been built. As opponents say, straight roads and square land are obtained after rezoning, but due to the large slope, the difference between the corner road and farmland is more than two meters, which is also very dangerous if the lighting is insufficient at night.