Zhang Xuanfen and others criticized the Tsai administration for giving up the mainland market, causing exports to decrease year by year, and farmers suffered! Taichung Municipal Agriculture Director Wang Junxiong was in the city council on the 4th.

Zhang Yanfen and others criticized the Tsai administration for giving up the mainland market, causing exports to decrease year by year, and farmers suffered! (Photo source: Taiwan's "China Times Electronic News")

China Taiwan Network May 4 According to Taiwan's "China Times Electronic News" report, Taichung City Agriculture Director Wang Junxiong reported on the "Taichung City Agricultural Products Marketing Planning and Results" in the city council on the 4th, emphasizing the cooperation with the new southward policy to open up new channels, and actively participated in the exhibition and sale promotion of Taichung City's high-quality agricultural products. The report aroused doubts from City Councilmen Zhu Nuanying, Zhang Xuanfen and others. They criticized the Tsai administration for giving up the mainland market, causing exports to decrease year by year, and farmers were harmed!

Zhang Yongfen pointed out that the Taichung Municipal Government successfully opened the Southeast Asian and mainland markets; the Agricultural Bureau counted that in 2014, tangerine exported 560 tons, and in 2015, the new municipal government took over only 444 tons, and in 2016, it was only 462 tons. Lychee was exported to 281 tons in 2014, 214 tons in 2015, and only 61 tons remained in 2016.

Zhang Yan said that flowers were exported, flamingo flowers were exported in 2014, more than 2.32 million in 2014, only 720,000 in 2015, and even worse in 2016, only more than 340,000; Wen Xinlan exported more than 12.6 million in 2014, only more than 9.61 million in 2015, and more than 9.05 million in 2016. She said that the main reason is that the mainland market shrinks, and the municipal government wants to open up a new market in Southeast Asia, which is not effective, and is limited to Singapore , Malaysia and Brunei .

Zhu Nuanying said that the municipal government is not active in exporting agricultural products, and the more the amount sold, the less it does not increase. For example, in 2015, 205 tons of mandarin oranges were sold to mainland China and Brunei, with an amount of 28.885 million NT$4; in 2016, 221 tons were sold, with an amount of only NT$19.659 million, which was very unreasonable, leaving farmers speechless. (China Taiwan Network Lu Jiajing)