Nantou farmers protest outside Executive YuanBy Esme Yeh / Staff reporterFarmer fron Nantou County yesterday protested in front of the Executive Yuan in Taipei calling for the appropriation of 7.5 hectares of farmland for a controversial incinerator construction project proposed by the Nantou County Government to be canceled. Farmland in Nantou County’s Mingjian Township is pictured in an undated photograph. Government Watch Alliance executive director Hsu Hsin-hsin (許心欣) said that the National Property Administration has appropriated farmland to the county government for use by the project without prior approval from the Executive Yuan and the Ministry of Agriculture. The Executive Yuan should cancel the appropriation of the farmland, especially as the farmland was appropriated without land-use conversion, which contravenes the National Property Act (國有財產法), she said. A separate news conference was held at the legislature in Taipei, urging the county government to reselect the project site and respect local farmers’ right to participate in the project’s review meetings.

Source: Taipei Times March 27, 2026 17:14 UTC