According to a report from Taiwan’s “United Daily News” on the 12th, Taiwan’s “Council of Agriculture” livestock market information network showed that the auction price of live pigs (hair pigs) on the island reached NT$90.47 per kilogram (the same below, about RMB 20.26), breaking through 90. RMB threshold, a record high. Huang Jiaan, general manager of Yunlin Meat Market, said that the recent rise in pig prices is mainly due to the high incidence of pig enteritis and the decline in the breeding rate. NT$95. Kang Fuhu, director of the Taiwan Pig Breeding Association, said that the price of feed has more than doubled over the past year, and many pig farmers are gritting their teeth to sustain a loss-making business, and even sell their pigs to survive. Next, the price of pigs may rise to 100. Yuan, the industry can make a little profit. An official from the Animal Husbandry Department of Taiwan’s “Council of Agriculture” said that the conflict between Russia and Ukraine caused the rise in international raw materials, which is one of the reasons that affect the price of pigs. Hundreds of pig houses are being remodeled, resulting in a decrease in the number of pigs. According to a reporter from the “Global Times”, comparing horizontally, the price of live pigs in the mainland on the 10th was about 15.87 yuan per kilogram.
Looking at the pork import data on the island, the import of frozen pork in January and February this year was 10,566 tons, a decrease of nearly 47% compared to last year’s 19,865 tons, and the import price rose by about 30%. Taiwan’s “Council of Agriculture” officials said that the reduction in pork imports was due to the high price of pork in other regions. Many pig farmers in Taiwan lamented that pig farmers could hardly keep up, and the current price increase only reflects the cost. If the authorities suppress the price again, pig farmers will stop raising pigs by then, and everyone will not only have no eggs to eat, but also no pork to eat. .
At the same time, the “egg shortage” on the island has not been alleviated, and it is reflected in all aspects of society. Recently, to celebrate the Chinese Taipei team defeating the Italian team in the WBC World Baseball Classic, Man Zhigang, head of the KMT Youth Union, distributed 1,000 eggs for free to the public, and each person can receive 5 eggs. As a result, there was a long queue at the scene just for these 5 eggs. According to a report by Zhongshi Electronic News on the 12th, a citizen of New Taipei City ran all over the nearby supermarkets to buy eggs that morning, and finally bought the last two boxes. Eggs are stolen. She exclaimed on the Internet: “My God! This is Taiwan, this is Taiwan, I can’t believe it!” Some netizens on the island lamented that “eggs are worth more than bicycles”; Eggs that are not paid for will be stolen. What’s even more outrageous is that, according to Taiwan’s Zhongshi News Network, in Xinzhuang Sports Park in New Taipei City, all 7 eggs laid by a goose were stolen by someone, and some people used branches to drive the goose away in order to get the eggs.
It is understood that in the past, Taiwan was mostly self-sufficient in egg supply and imported relatively few eggs. According to the review report of Taiwan’s “Legislative Yuan” Economic Committee, Taiwan will import 999 tons of eggs in 2020, 483 tons in 2021, and 1,379 tons from January to September 2022. According to Chen Jizhong, chairman of Taiwan’s “Council of Agriculture”, because of the island’s “bird flu prevention regulations”, Taiwan currently only imports eggs from the United States, Japan and Australia; while Taiwan authorities believe that eggs from mainland China, Vietnam, Indonesia and other regions Chickens have been vaccinated against avian influenza during the breeding process, so they are not allowed to be imported. Since last year, the global bird flu pandemic has led to a sharp drop in egg production not only in Taiwan, but also in the United States, Japan and other places, so the price of eggs on the island has soared.
Wang Hongwei, a “legislator” of the Kuomintang, questioned on the 12th that Chen Jizhong’s tenure can be said to have experienced natural and man-made disasters, and the prices of eggs and pork have soared; to make matters worse, due to severe water shortages, the blooming mangoes may face the fruit before they grow up. , the loss will be very heavy if it is not resolved in time. Taiwan’s United News Network stated on the 12th that seeing the big from the small shows that there are indeed problems with the governance capabilities of the Cai authorities. , lack of land) none of the problems have been solved, and even the eggs that the people eat every day are difficult to buy cheap goods. “In this day, it is difficult for the people to have a good evaluation of the government’s governance.”
