Surprisingly, there are some places up in the high mountains that do get cold enough to snow. Because the land is hot and humid, it is the best for growing rice and other farm products. The farmers in north can grow two crops of rice a year while three crops a year in the south. There are mostly mountains in the north part of Taiwan while plate farm land in the south. Sometimes Taiwan may encounter Typhoon or earthquakes sometime in a year.
Typhoons are very severe storms with powerful winds and heavy rains.
Therefore, Taiwan always suffer great damage from typhoons and the floods that accompany them. Luckily, they only come during the summer and the beginning of the autumn. Earthquakes, just like Japan and California, Taiwan can have earthquakes very easily. Agriculture-Rice History Rice is Taiwan's most important crop. Just after retrocession, Taiwan had 500,000 hectares of rice fields producing 640,000 metric tons of brown rice annually.