Archive for June 14th, 2021

TAIPEI, TAIWAN — A serious water shortage since late 2020 has forced Taiwan to stop irrigating cropland, a move that will hurt rice production, according to a report from the Foreign Agricultural Service of the US Department of Agriculture (USDA).

With 46% of the rice planting area left fallow for the first 2021 crop, the USDA said production will be significantly impacted. In 2020, first crop rice production reached 1.1 million tonnes.

For the first time in 56 years, no typhoons passed ...