Image of the Day for April 24, 2026 Diversity reigns across the farmland of Yunlin County in southwestern Taiwan—a region that produces an array of crops on small farms. Apr 24, 2026 View more Images of the Day: About 23 million people live in Taiwan, a Pacific island about the size of Maryland. Despite its size, the island produces a tremendous amount of agricultural goods per year—about $18 billion, according to Taiwan’s Ministry of Agriculture . The average size of a farm in Taiwan ( less than 1 hectare ) is much smaller than in the United Kingdom ( 87 hectares ) or the United States ( 187 hectares ). Since much of the island is mountainous, only about one-quarter of Taiwan’s land is arable , and it is mostly located on the southwestern side of the island in the Chianan Plain . That amounts to 0.03 hectares of farmland per Taiwanese citizen—about half as much arable farmland as there is per person in the United Kingdom and one-tenth as much as in the United States .…