Taiwan is a small country located in Eastern Asia. It is about 161 km away from the southeast part of China and about 483 km north of the Philippines. The exact location is 120°E–122°E and 22°N–25°N. The Tropic of Cancer passes through the center of Taiwan. The south part of Taiwan is considered tropical and the north subtropical. The characters and habitat of the rice in Taiwan are quite unique because (1) there are many high mountains and rice has been grown from sea level to high altitude, (2) rice may be grown from February to November each year, and (3) both japonica and indica rice varieties are cultivated. For thousands of years, people in Taiwan selected several important traits such as insensitivity to photoperiod and semidwarfism that have affected modern rice cultivation in the world.
The arable land in Taiwan is about 803 kilohectares, and half of the land consists of paddy fields for rice production. Because the temperature from February to November is suitable for rice...
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Hsing, Y.I.C. (2014). Rice in Taiwan. In: Selin, H. (eds) Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-3934-5_10245-1
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