This is the second resignation of Chen Jizhong.Taiwan media reported that Chen Jizhong was rumored to have resigned on the 17th and was allowed to be approved on the 19th.He reiterated in a 2000 -word resignation that project imported eggs are the best practices under Taiwan consumers and farmers' balance.On the afternoon of September 19), a press conference was held to explain the issue of imported eggs in the project, bowed to the public and apologized.(Internet)
According to a press release issued on the same day of the Taiwan Executive Yuan, Chen Jizhong has recently expressed apologies to the executive director Chen Jianren, and said that social disputes are difficult to calm down, making the efficiency and purpose of imported eggs in imports.Jiao, he must bear the responsibility of government officials.Chen Jianren respected Chen Jizhong's decision, allowed him to resign, and took effect on Thursday (21st), so that Chen Jizhong became the Minister of Agriculture, who was only 51 days.
Many supporters cheered on his Facebook for his resignation."The Minister has worked hard", "the model of government officers", and "Taiwan's agricultural progress in recent years, and it has obvious it."Some netizens said, "The minister has time to write to resign, and has no time to clarify the dispute and solve the problem?"Let's. "
Imported egg controversy has also become the focus of offense and defense in Taiwan.
The Kuomintang in the wild refers to the evolution of egg shortage into a crisis of food in Taiwan, but Chen Jizhong is "slippery" and is very irresponsible.On the 19th, the Kuomintang issued a press release of the text game, referring to the imported egg controversy "Ji Zhong's key" seriously injured the DPP, and also said that the "egg grievances for a long time" spread the grievances. Even the DPP has dissatisfaction."To Ji".
Chen Zhizhen, a spokesman for the candidate of the President of the People's Party, also criticized Chen Jizhong, who took the buttocks and left.Lost blood, want to avoid "Zhong" to save "Qing" (Lai Qingde), but the people have no confidence in the DPP.
Imported egg suspicious clouds
In order to solve the problem of Taiwan's egg shortage, the Taiwan Agriculture Department (former Taiwan Agricultural Committee) starts from March this year. From Brazil and Turkey, Thailand, Australia, the United States and other places imported eggs.
In August of this year, a number of eggs imported from Brazil were detected by animal antibiotics that were prohibited from being used, which triggered a series of controversy around imported eggs.
First of all, the manufacturer of the imported Brazilian egg "Super Thinking".According to the Taiwan Civil Daily, Super Si was established in September last year. The company's registered place is in the house with a registered capital of only 500,000 yuan (NT $, Same as S $ 12,299), but received hundreds of millions of subsidies for the Ministry of Agriculture.Brazil imported 88.14 million eggs, and imports accounted for nearly 60 % of the imported eggs.
Secondly, in early September, a group of Brazil import eggs were found to be imported on May 30, but the valid date is marked on October 5th.Safety concerns.
In addition, the imported eggs still have a problem with too much loss.Data from the Ministry of Agriculture show that more than 54 million eggs must be destroyed due to damage. Among them, Brazilian eggs account for more than 80 %, and the loss of more than 200 million yuan.
New Taipei City Monday (September 18) seized 20,000 kilograms of imported egg liquid marked as "Taiwan production", which also caused the Wild Party and the people to question the flow of imported eggs to opaque.
For import manufacturers super thought, the Ministry of Agriculture has issued several press releases since late August, saying that government subsidies are unrealisticly reported, and there is no situation of subsidized specific objects.The Ministry of Agriculture also disclosed the content with Super Sisi on September 6 to prove that there is no room for Tuli.
The Ministry of Agriculture also explained the date and selection date of the eggs, saying that the eggs marked as the expiration of October 5 should be expired on September 24, which is the error of the selection industry.The so -called washing refers to clearing the filth and bacteria on the eggshell through water washing and grading, and eliminating the cracked shell eggs, which can effectively reduce the spread of the germs as the eggs spread.
As for too much loss, Chen Jizhong explained at a press conference on September 16 that it is to maintain food safety. There is no need to release inventory without demand. Loss is a necessary expense.
Chen Jizhong also announced the four flows of imported eggs on the same day, including the sale, processed into egg liquid or tea eggs after washing, transformed into inventory, and the loss of selection and transportation.
In addition, the official website of the Ministry of Agriculture opened the "Project Import Egg Zone" on Tuesday (19th) to announce the import volume of eggs, imported egg inventory, and imported egg flow tables from March to July.
However, the Ministry of Agriculture's measures in the past few days have not settled the controversy of imported eggs.The YouTube channel "Wild TV 94" launched a network poll on September 14th. More than 11,000 people voted that "Chen Jizhong should step down."
Avoid "Zhong" to save "Qing"?
A lot of Taiwan public opinion analysis believes that Chen Jizhong's resignation was approved to decline for the current vice president and the DPP candidate Lai Qingde's polls.
Wu Zijia, chairman of the Meilima Electronics News, said at a critical moment at the evening political program on the 19th that Chen Jizhong's resignation reversed within two days., Forced the palace Cai Yingwen.However, the Taiwan government refuted the rumor of "forcing palace" on the 20th, saying that it was nonsense.
In the middle of the electronics, the Pen room for the main time of the electronics reported that there were two factions in the green camp fighting. One group believed that Chen Jizhong would leave the fire from the Ministry of Agriculture to the senior management at this time, so he did not agree with him.The other faction believes that the Brazilian egg incident is difficult to clean up. Chen Jizhong should work as soon as possible to not affect Lai Qingde's election.
Since September, Lai Qingde's polls have shown a downward trend, and even fell below 30%in some polls."CNEWS Connect News Network" showed on the 4th of this month that Lai Qingde's support rate fell to 29.7%; according to the polls of key survey Co., Ltd., Lai Qingde's support rate fell to 29.4%.
Chen Jizhong announced the next day (20th) that Lai Qingde was shouted by the reporter when he attended the event, "Is Chen Jizhong resigned to save the DPP's election?"Responded.
Taiwan Cai Yingwen participated in the event in Kaohsiung on WednesdayWhen asked "how to view Chen Jizhong's resignation", he also smiled only to the media and waved his hands without answering.
How to solve the egg shortage?
Affected by bird flu, this egg shortage in Taiwan has begun since the Spring Festival in 2022 and has been extended to this day.
According to Chen Jizhong in March of this year, Taiwan's egg gap reached 800,000 to 1 million per day.However, according to industry estimates, the Taiwanese egg gap is much higher than this number, and it should be around 3 million per day.
The price of eggs has continued to rise from the egg gap, and it was adjusted from 52 yuan per catty (600 grams) to 55 yuan in March from the wholesale price in February.Affected by imported eggs since September, some merchants have also adjusted their own real estate white eggs to 65 yuan per catty.
Since the 1970s, Taiwan's egg production and sales have implemented a "unified package sales system", that is, no matter the size and quality of egg farmers produce eggs every day, egg merchants will acquire and sell uniform prices.
The price of eggs consisting of government, egg farmers, chicken breeding associations, egg merchant associations, transport sales vendors, and experts and scholars, "the Taiwan Dick Chicken Business Production and Marketing Supervision Committee of the Republic of China Chicken Association,"EssenceHowever, because the egg farmers accounted for up to 40 % of the committee, the price of eggs was in the hands of large egg merchants for a long time.
At the same time, in order to restrain prices, the Taiwanese government has long been "frozen" egg prices. Although no competitive egg farmers can survive when the eggs are excessive, it also makes egg farmers lack the cause of incentives to invest in investment.Increase production.
For example, at the end of March this year, Taiwan imported 5 million eggs from Australia. Because air transport is more expensive, some experts questioned the government to post 30 million yuan.Essence
Although Australian eggs are more expensive, Taiwan has not considered eggs in mainland China.Zou Zhenqiu, Vice President of the National Taiwan Federation and a representative of the National People's Congress, proposed to resolve Taiwan's egg shortage relying on the mainland during the two sessions, but some Taiwanese netizens ridiculed that "there is a bomb in the eggs."
The eggs in Taiwan have become more and more interested, and the root cause is also the industrial structural problem of the egg industry.In 2021, Taiwan ’s poultry statistics manual statistics, of the 1613 eggs and hen farms in Taiwan, traditional chicken houses accounted for 91.7%. Old poultry houses lead to low egg production rate, but also more likely to spread viruses, resulting in unstable egg supply.
In short, although Chen Jizhong's resignation can temporarily stop loss for Lai Qingde's election, the egg shortage in Taiwan may continue.If you only rely on imports and do not fundamentally improve the level of egg production in Taiwan and improve the supply and marketing system, the problem of egg shortage will still make the DPP a target for wild attacks. It is estimated that the next Minister of Agricultural Minister is not easy to go.
