Source: Huaxia Jingwei.com
Prices of Korean vegetables fell sharply due to overproduction. (Photo by Yang Shuhuang) Photo source: Taiwan "China Times"
According to Taiwan's "China Times", the report of the Taiwan Legislative Council Budget Center pointed out that the Taiwan "Committee on Agriculture" spent 600 million (NT$, the same below) to purchase more agricultural products in 2019, of which 323 million were used to bury, composting and send pig farmers to make feed. Kuomintang Chairman Jiang Qichen criticized yesterday that the focus of the Agricultural Development Fund should be on pre-prevention, not to spread money every time a problem occurs, and to treat symptoms but not root causes. Otherwise, what is the use of such a Taiwan authorities? He said that the "Committee of Agriculture" abused the budget, shouldn't the supervisory agency launch an investigation and propose corrections to act dereliction of duty and violation of the "law"?
Jiang Qichen said that the "Production and Sales Adjustment Emergency Response Plan" is to provide pre-warning and prevention for agricultural, fishing and livestock products that may have imbalanced production and sales. It also provides production and sales adjustment and guidance for agricultural products and regions that are determined to have imbalanced production and sales. As a result, the "Agriculture Committee" is purchased as compost.
Kuomintang "legislator" Ma Wenjun also said that in 2020, another 458 million yuan was spent to buy farming and people's hearts, and the production and sales problems were still not resolved. She said that the cost of the DPP authorities to purchase farms is more than 10 times that of Ma Ying-jeou's period, and it is as high as 50 times in 2019, because it was the election of Taiwan's leaders. Once a farmer confession was met, Chen Ji-chung's only countermeasure was to use money to "touch his head" to avoid disturbing the harmony and ruining the election situation.
What is even more heartbreaking is that this move not only wastes taxpayers’ hard-earned money, but also ruins the fruits of farmers. She criticized the “Committee of Agriculture” for only spending money, but she is incompetent!
KMT Taipei City Councilman You Shuhui also found out Chen Jizhong's past speech. Chen asked the media on October 1 last year, "Which agricultural product in Taiwan has an imbalance in production and sales in recent years?" You questioned, if there is no imbalance in production and sales, why should the "Committee of Agriculture" monitor it? If there is no imbalance in production and sales, why should we deal with it urgently? If there is no imbalance in production and sales, why is it more and more spent?
Agricultural flour special "Linbay good oil" also said that it was called "farming and hoeing", which was before it was harvested, and later it was called "discharging". Now the "Committee of Agriculture" has invented a more fashionable term called "diversified recycling", which can be used in various ways, "even if it is sent to soil to bury, it is also a kind of processing"; who said the "Committee of Agriculture" is incompetent? People can buy fruits, and then bury them and write them off. Which department can do this?
