Land reform in Taiwan

Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, land reform in Taiwan capped farm rents and redistributed farmland to Taiwanese tenant farmers. The reforms occurred in three main stages. First, in 1949, farm rents were capped at 37.5% of yields. Second, starting in 1951, public land was sold to tenant farmers. Finally, starting in 1953, large landholdings were broken up and redistributed to tenant farmers--a "land-to-the-tiller" reform.^[1]

In the 1950s, after the Nationalist government fled to Taiwan, land reform and community development were carried out by the Sino-American Joint Commission on Rural Reconstruction. The course of action was made attractive, in part, by the fact that many of the large landowners were Japanese who had fled, and the other large landowners were compensated with Japanese commercial and industrial properties seized after Taiwan had reverted from Japanese rule in 1945. The land program succeeded also because the Kuomintang were mostly from Mainland China and so had few ties to the remaining indigenous landowners.^[2]

See also[]

• Land reform
• Land Bank of Taiwan
• Land Reform Museum

References[]

External links[]

• Yueh, Jean (28 Aug 2009). "Land-to-the-tiller program transformed Taiwan". Taiwan Today. Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
• Koo, Anthony Y. C. (March 1966). "Economic Consequences of Land Reform in Taiwan". Asian Survey. 6 (3): 150–157. doi:10.2307/2642219.

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