there was no parallel in history! The irrigation of rice crops stopped just after heading, and the farmers roared angrily: the destruction of rice seedlings will be struck by thunder and lightning, and the government's compensation is like the Shi En.

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Typhoon is a disaster, but it is also a disaster if the typhoon does not come. This year is the first typhoon-free drought since 1964. Due to tight water conditions, the Council of Agriculture announced that irrigation in the Taozhu Miao area would soon be stopped. Chairman Chen Jizhong also offered compensation of more than 120000 yuan per hectare, hoping to quell farmers' anger. However, the rice has not been irrigated until it is heading, and even whether or not to plough and hoe is inconsistent, and the farmers have no choice but to ask the sky, "Why should we be sacrificed again?"

Committee of Agriculture: farmers will not lose because of the suspension of irrigation, and the compensation will be paid to the household within ten days.

In an interview with the Legislative Yuan today, Chen Jizhong said that because the rainfall from June to October this year was less than 40% of that in previous years, and there was a shortage of agricultural water reservoirs such as Shimen, Deji, and Yongheshan, the government announced that 19000 hectares of farmland in Miao, Zhu, and Tao areas would be suspended.

He went on to explain that there are 320000 hectares of irrigated areas in the country, and after close regulation with the Water Conservancy Department, the area of suspended irrigation has been limited to 19000 hectares, of which 13000 hectares are paddy fields and the other 6000 hectares are planted with miscellaneous grains, vegetables and other crops.

Agriculture is the first to bear the brunt of a severe drought. (photography / Cai Jiashan)

Chen Jizhong said that since August, the Council of Agriculture has held intensive discussions with the Water Conservancy Department and made possible advanced deployment so that the second-stage rice in the south of Taichung can be harvested as scheduled. However, God could not bring rainfall to the north of Miaoli, so he multiplied the farm income by 1.05, plus the farmers' production costs to compensate. "it must be more than 120000 per hectare," he said. "make sure that farmers will not suffer any losses as a result of the suspension of irrigation."

At the end of the interview, Chen Jizhong stressed again: "We will give all farmers the most preferential compensation, and we will announce the amount at noon today, and we can apply to the working station of the farmland and Water Conservancy Management Office of Peach Bamboo seedlings within 10 days from tomorrow. The amount of compensation will be remitted to the farmers' account as soon as possible."

However, when "upstream and downstream" asked the local water conservancy units, they all said that they had not received the official documents. "the news came faster than the announcement." At least before the deadline, how can we make up for it tomorrow? Who can get compensation? How much is the compensation? It's all in the air.

Officials do not understand that farmers "ploughing hoes and so on want us to kill our own children."

What's more, can the losses of farmers be compensated by money?

Chen Yanqing, the winner of the Shennong Prize, has already set ears in the second phase of rice cultivation in Taoyuan. He says he doesn't care about the amount of compensation, but it would be unreasonable to ask farmers to plough and hoe to make green manure. "that's the rice we've worked so hard to cultivate, just like our children. Doesn't the hoe want us to kill our own children?" He said helplessly that the officials in the office never understood the feelings of the farmers.

The title of the Shennong Award has become ironic because of the government's harm to farmers. Chen Yanqing's "Dahe brown rice" and "Dahe fragrant rice" are planted in farmland that will be stopped irrigating at present, and before more irrigation is stopped, he can only humbly ask the government, "can we find water by ourselves after stopping irrigation, instead of ploughing the hoe?"

Farmers' ancestors built reservoirs, but sacrificed agriculture for lack of water, roaring: destroying rice seedlings will be struck by thunder and lightning.

When Taiwan faced a decade of drought in 2014, upstream and downstream interviewed Tian Shouxi, a farmer in Zhubei. Six years later, when he was interviewed on the same topic, his first response was: "sacrifice agriculture again." He said that his father's generation of farmers had paid money to help build the Shimen Reservoir, because the purpose of the reservoir was for irrigation, but now