Taiwan rice farmers set for export boom

The door to both the mainland Chinese and Japanese market have been cracked open recently for Taiwan's rice farmers. In Japan, fears over radiation contamination are making the infamously picky Japanese consumers desire foreign grain, while across the Taiwan Strait in mainland China, Taiwanese rice is starting to conquer the supermarket shelves for political reasons. 

For the first time since 2002, when Taiwan joined the World Trade Organization (WTO) and thereby effectively sacrificed the domestic agricultural industry for the well-being of the high-tech ones, the island's rice producers seem to be on the right side of history. 

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