| Miaoli County covers about 182,000 hectares of land,
of which about 19% are cultivatable land. Fifty nine percent
of the agricultural land is paddy field land and the remaining
41% are dry land. The soil types in this area are rather
complicated due to the long-term rock weathering, landscape
change and human influence. In general, the plain is comprised
of alluvial soils, loam, and the terrain and low altitude
mountain areas are mostly yellow soils, red soils, colluvial
soils, lithosoils, etc.
The climate in the seashore plain area and its neighboring
terrain area belong to tropic weather with annual average
temperature of 20-22℃. The annual rainfall in terrain
areas is about 2,000 mm which is higher than that in
low plains. Agricultural population is about 203,600
from about 43,000 household families that comprises
of 36% of the population in Miaoli County. Toufen Township
has the highest population followed by Yuanli and Houlong
Townships. Major crops and fruit trees are rice, sweet
potato, vegetables, watermelon, citrus, bamboo shoot,
grape, pear, plum, persimmon, strawberry and carambola.
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