| dc.description.abstract | This study is on farmland readjustment as a component of the land reform scheme in the Postwar period, with a particular focus on the first ten-year phase of farmland readjustment policy (1962-1971). The readjustment zone of Kekegang in Xinwu Township, Taoyuan County, serves as a case study to analyze the positive impact and negative controversies concerning the land adjustment scheme and how the everyday lives of the farming community within the readjustment zone changed following the implementation of the policy.
This study used official archival data, periodicals, journals, and newspapers current to that particular era, and land registration data kept by the competent authorities to reconstruct the process of farmland readjustment in the Kekegang region. When viewed comprehensively, farmland adjustment was tied to the land reform scheme of the 1950s and closely related to local irrigation and hydraulic infrastructure development. For example, in the Taoyuan region, the construction of the Shimen Dam was closely associated with land readjustment projects, and as the readjustment projects came to completion, the accessibility of water in the Taoyuan region was also fundamentally resolved. Different irrigation and hydraulic works also became better integrated to improve water supply efficiency and reasonable use of water resources.
During the farmland readjustment process, some problems were the preparatory management, regulatory streamlining, and budgetary concerns, leading to expressed concerns and even opposition to the farmland readjustment process. The first yen-year phase was critical to the entire readjustment project, and it also happened to achieve the most significant scale of farmland readjustment, a clear indication of the uniqueness of this particular phase.
The Kekegang readjustment zone′s farmers would recall the difficulties that the readjustment process created, but they tend to be supportive when discussing the long-term results of farmland readjustments. In short, the farmland readjustment process was economically burdensome at the time, but now the readjustment results have become fully converted into added value for the farmlands in question. | en_US |