Farmers protest water conservation projectBy Esme Yeh / Staff reporterAgricultural workers from Hsinchu County yesterday gathered in front of the Ministry of Agriculture (MOA) to protest a water conservation and efficiency project that shut down water conveyance facilities without sufficient communication with farmers. Farmers protest a water conservation project in Hsinchu County outside of the Ministry of Agriculture in Taipei yesterday. The agriculture ministry and the Ministry of Economic Affairs should put forward a water control plan instead of “dressing up water suspension as a systemic water saving plan,” Hsu said. Asked why the irrigation gates were shut down ahead of the project, Chen said it was a coincidence. Such measures are part of the county’s rotational irrigation scheme, not the project, he said.

Source: Taipei Times March 26, 2026 17:15 UTC