A rice field was shaded by photovoltaic panels, and landowners criticized reduced yields.

(Photo by reporter Chen Yanting)

[Reporter Chen Yanting/Pingtung Report] Tianyang Village, Xinyuan Township, Pingtung is currently undergoing a water conservancy ditch installation of photoelectric panels. However, due to the shading of adjacent fields and the increased agricultural damage caused by bird damage, farmers rebounded. Today, Lin Guohua, deputy director of the Farmland and Water Conservancy Department Arriving at the site for survey, it is emphasized that work will be suspended temporarily.

The predecessor of the Farmland and Water Conservancy Department, the Farmland Water Conservancy Association, used the photoelectric panel project in Xinyuan Township, which once caused public dissatisfaction due to the cutting of the tree in half. The project currently under construction in Tianyang Village has once again attracted dissatisfaction from neighboring landowners and tenants. Presented to Legislator Zhong Jiabin and scheduled today's survey. Township Mayor Fang Guanding, County Secretary Huang Jianfang, and Director of Pingtung Management of Agriculture and Water Administration Huang Xinming were all present.

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"The paddy fields in 2 points of land have lost nearly 40,000 yuan in income!" A woman at the scene kept criticizing, pointing out that her field had been covered by photoelectric panels for five years, and the harvest in the shaded areas was deteriorating, and the photoelectric panels turned into birds The gathering place makes her field a feast for the birds, and she gets up early every day to set off cannons and go crazy, but she still loses nearly 20,000 yuan in income per cent of the land, and she doesn't know how to survive at all.

Photovoltaic panels are being installed next to the land of the woman surnamed Cai. She pointed out that she had not consulted the Agriculture and Water Administration at the beginning, but she heard from the farmers that she had great doubts about the construction and asked to stop work and remove it. It is inconceivable that the land used as a farmland water conservancy ditch is not considered a neighboring land, and I request the Agriculture and Water Administration to clarify the doubt.

Fang Guanding said that optoelectronic projects should take into account urban and rural features, agricultural production, and the ecology of the canyon. The villagers have repeatedly told him that even if they want to build it, they should stay away from the village, instead of building it when they see the canyon.

After the survey, Lin Guohua responded that the work will be temporarily suspended at present, and the consent letter will be obtained and communicated with the villagers to obtain the consent. As for the agricultural damage, bird traps and other methods will be used. The optoelectronic project should not be excluded from agricultural production, and will try its best to communicate and resolve disputes. .

More than a dozen farmers came to the scene to express their feelings.

(Photo by reporter Chen Yanting)

A rice field was shaded by photovoltaic panels, and landowners criticized reduced yields.

(Photo by reporter Chen Yanting)