Blue, green, yellow and red
At 10 am on Friday, I walked into the egg store in the Yongchun Market in Taipei.Ordinary white shell eggs, 11 packs, priced at 200 yuan (NT $ 8.8), which is twice as expensive than usual.
A middle -aged woman looked at me, shook her head and said, "I really can't buy it", and quietly told me that a certain supermarket in front of him sold 109 yuan recently, close to half the price.
She is right, the price of eggs in the supermarket has not risen, the problem is just impossible.The shelves often stated that "buy two boxes", but made the customers who fluttered the rack.
One morning last month, it was rare to see two boxes left in the largest chain supermarket, 85 yuan per box.
I hurriedly bought a box, and after saving money for a month, I finally "supported the eggs."
It is found that the current origin and wholesale price of eggs is 45.5 yuan and 55 yuan per catty (600 grams). Double rewriting has a record high, which is 30 % expensive than the price of 34.5 yuan each at the end of the previous year.
However, the actual retail price of the vegetable market has soared to a catty of more than 80 yuan.Taking the best black bone eggs as an example, the two egg merchants in the market, one selling one catty 150 yuan, the other sells 180 yuan, and the price of 11 packs is 250 yuan.The egg merchant told me that it was sold in the morning.
This round of egg shortage in Taiwan has not been resolved since the end of the year before.The reasons for the lack of eggs include bird flu and the temperature difference between day and night leading to the reduction of eggs. In addition, the Russian and Ukraine War increased the cost of increased grain prices.Simply put, the supply is shortage, the demand is unchanged, and the price of course has risen.
The Agricultural Committee of the Executive Yuan is said to have repeatedly instructed the two parties to buy and sell eggs to "freeze", so as not to cause the public to pressure. As a result, the people cannot buy cheap eggs, and egg shortage continues to deteriorate.
The frozen rising can no longer be supported. The extensive production and sales conference was held on Saturday (March 25). After the meeting, I believe that it will announce the increase.
When the egg waste that has been extended to this day, when will it be relieved and how to solve it?
Chen Jizhong, chairman of the Agricultural Committee, revealed in the Legislative Yuan on March 15 that Taiwan lacks about 1 million eggs a day.He announced that it was supplemented by expanding imports, including more than 5 million imports in March, and more than 30 million eggs imported in April and May. The sources include eight countries such as Australia, Thailand and Malaysia.He emphasized that the cost difference between the shipping cost of imported eggs will be absorbed by the Agricultural Committee without affecting the retail price.
This statement has caused doubts in the opposition party, arguing that the government is relying on coins to solve problems, and lack of long -term planning.
In fact, Chen Jizhong proposed a medium- and long -term solution. He said that the government would subsidize the traditional egg hen farm to be converted into a new poultry house.The problem is how easy it is to talk about?
There are more than 80 % of the eggs in Taiwan, which are traditional open poultry houses. Whenever the winter and night and night temperatures exceed 10 degrees Celsius, it will greatly reduce the amount of egg production.Traditional poultry houses are more likely to be attacked by bird flu. According to regulations, as long as the poultry house has a chicken, it must be completely culled, but the chicken farmers are worried that the blood is not returned, and it may not be reported in truth, which makes it difficult for the avian influenza virus to clear.
The closed new constant temperature bird house can provide a healthier environment and give full play to the maximum productivity.However, according to the statistics of the industry, only about 5%of the whole Taiwan is a closed new constant temperature bird house.The reason for improving the improvement includes aging aging of chicken farmers, worrying about the high cost of transformation, and also believes that government subsidies are limited.
Relative to rewrite the historical high relative to egg prices, the recent price of vegetables in Taiwan has plummeted.
The reason is that the weather is warm and stable after the spring, and vegetables grow faster than the harvesting of vegetable farmers. The price has changed from a small price in winter, becoming more cheap to the current amount.
Take Korean cuisine as an example. Some supermarkets have recently sold a 25 yuan, which is one -sixth of the highest price of 150 yuan in the off -season.
In Yunlin and Changhua in the southern agricultural county, there are even more vegetable farmers invited the people to harvest themselves through Facebook. A cabbage vegetable only received 10 yuan to save the cost of inviting people and buying cartons.Some people pretend to be full of hemp bags.
Fukuyama lettuce, commonly known as "Mainland Girl" as an example. The market price has fallen to 15 yuan a catty, and the wholesale price is only 10 yuan. There are vegetable farmers and even invite people to harvest for free.
This situation can not help but think of the vegetable soil and gold that is often called by farmers.When the breeders look at the weather to eat, when the things are rare, vegetables are like gold; when the price falls, they would rather plow the vegetables as fertile soil.
I go to the vegetable market every week to purchase various vegetables, and talk about the wishes to support small farmers.It is really not easy for them to work hard and make money.
Looking at the rise and decline of vegetables at this time, I often think that in the face of challenges such as climate change, so many universities in Taiwan set up agricultural departments and folk masters such as clouds.And promoting the blueprint for industrial transformation, it also attracts more young people to join.
In addition to improving production bases and improving production and sales management, if we can further combine government planning, expert research and suggestions to promote the improvementThe old problems of the egg shortage and the "vegetable gold change the vegetable soil".
Facing the natural disasters of climate and bird flu, farmers can no longer bear the delay of delay.Improve the supply of eggs and vegetables, which is concerned about people's livelihood, but also shows the government's good governance, and lifts the civil economic momentum.
