( Observer Network news) Seeing that custard apple is about to mature, has the Taiwan authorities’ goal of assisting in the sale of 5,000 tons of custard apples been achieved?
According to a report from Taiwan United Network today (10th), A fruit farmer in Taitung County complained that Chen Jizhong, chairman of the "Agricultural Committee", has always claimed that "the price must be good", but in fact, "it is all about beautifying the book numbers" "I didn't do what I said." Nowadays, most people are selling at a loss.
Comprehensive Taiwan media reports indicate that Custard Apple is the main economic crop in Taitung County, with a planting area of 5,500 hectares, of which pineapple Custard Apple accounts for 1,800 hectares. The annual export output reaches 14,000 tons, of which more than 90% is sold to the mainland, with an annual output value of more than 12 billion New Taiwan dollars (approximately 275 million yuan).
In September last year, the General Administration of Customs of the Mainland issued a notice that due to the detection of quarantine pests, it would suspend the import of custard apple (custard apple) and Lianwu from Taiwan to the mainland starting from September 20.
Subsequently, in order to appease the people on the island, the Taiwan authorities, while blaming the mainland, proposed a plan to "save the custard apples", saying that they would spend a large amount of money to help sell these fruits, and proposed that pineapple custard apples should be sold for 5,000 yuan for export and 5,000 for domestic sales.丶The goal of processing 3,000 metric tons.
However, fruit farmers seem to have never felt the "welfare" promoted by the Taiwan authorities. At the end of last year, Taitung County Magistrate Rao Qingling said angrily in front of the media, "The more I talk about it, the angrier I get. I don't want to talk about it." It grows up in a day and is still hanging on the tree.”
At the end of last month, figures released by the relevant departments on the island showed that the export value of Taiwan’s sugar apples and lotus seeds dropped sharply this year.
However, Chen Jizhong, chairman of the "Council of Agriculture", disagreed with this result. He said that Taiwan had proposed some response measures last year and invested in export, processing, cold chain, domestic sales, etc. to ensure that farmers' prices and incomes were not affected. .
Today, Taitung County Government Agriculture Department Director Xu Jiahao said that many farmers have recently questioned whether the goal promised by Chen Jizhong has really been achieved? He can only tell farmers that the government is working hard. However, with the lack of the mainland market, the export volume is very limited. The county government will continue to reflect the concerns and dissatisfaction of farmers and strive to have a better marketing plan at the end of the year.
Wu Cuntian, president of the Taitung Pineapple Custard Apple Self-Rescue Association, said that the planting cost of pineapple Custard Apple is about NT$30 to 35 per kilogram (approximately RMB 6.6-7.7 yuan). However, after the Chinese New Year this year, many packaging plants will collect fruits from farmers. They are less than NT$20 (approximately RMB 4.4). His self-operated packaging factory only charges NT$25 (approximately RMB 5.5) at most, because the store purchase price is about NT$35 (approximately RMB 7.7). But it must be packaged perfectly. In addition to labor and packaging materials, there are also machine costs and electricity bills.
"None of what Chen Jizhong said was done!" Wu Cuntian said that Chen Jizhong came to Taitung in November last year and promised that the price of custard apples would be good in December. As a result, the "Agricultural Committee" subsidized the freezing plant and initially collected a few A After that, we will collect secondary fruits at low prices. In addition, we may only collect fruits from specific fruit farmers. Most fruit farmers do not feel that "the price must be good" as Chen Jizhong said.
"It's all about beautifying the numbers on the books," a fruit farmer surnamed Lin said bluntly. The government is beautifying the numbers, and farmers can't resist the government. Now they are even more worried about whether the farmers' insurance proposed by the government will be able to pay claims normally because of the beautification of numbers. Will farmers not be able to receive full compensation because the numbers are too good?
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