Author：Ming-Hsing Lai¹, Dong-Hong Wu^1,2, Charng-Pei Li¹, Woei-Shyuan Jwo¹, and Ching-Shan Tseng¹

Abstract：

    In recent years, global climate anomalies, an unusual frequency of major catastrophe occurred, resulting in regional food production showed instability, low rate of food self-sufficiency for our country, we must have food stocks readiness of strategic thinking; in response to the World Trade Organization (WTO ) open the rice market, the domestic large number of fallow paddy fields, these long-term there is no farming land, fertility not only did not get raised interest rates, but is a hotbed of wintering pests and media, have an impact on the ecological balance and overall agricultural production; Japan and South Korea and China other countries in response to their demand for raw materials to feed, all varieties of rice developed feed. Taiwan has a unique geographical environment planted rice, long and systematic basis for rice research and development conditions for the feed rice varieties, so to diversify sources of feed ingredients, in addition to the activation of fallow fields as a strategic choice, but also increase the paddy field area, reduce the heat island effect and prevent flood damage, reduce runoff, groundwater conservation of paddy fields play an important ecological significance for improving food self-sufficiency can also play a positive benefit.

Keywords: Rice, Self-sufficiency rate of food, Convergent breeding, Forage rice.

¹ Former Associate Research Fellow, Crop Science Division, TARI, Taichung, Taiwan, ROC.
² Corresponding Author, Email: dhwu@tari.gov.tw; Tel: 04-23317407.