The sugar apple harvest is arriving in Taitung County and prices are stable. Yet there are reports from Longchang Village in Donghe Township that the harm caused by Formosan macaques is getting worse. Farmer Lin Te-yi says that two groups of monkeys have attacked his orchard and “rushed the harvest,” causing him to lose as much as half of it. Lin says that no method has proven effective in getting rid of the monkeys, and that he is at his “wit’s end.”
Lin’s orchard lies at the foot of the mountains along Highway 11. A frustrated Lin says that he has grown sugar apples for more than 20 years, and that the harm caused by monkeys never used to be this bad. He says that perhaps the monkeys have had nothing to eat due to the cold weather this year and instead come down from the mountains to have sugar apples “for all three meals of the day.” He says it will take a lot of work to clean up the orchard, which is strewn with fruit peels and the bags used to protect the trees after the monkeys wreaked havoc.
Liberty Times, translated by Perry Svensson
台東縣鳳梨釋迦進入產期,外銷價格也穩定,不過東河鄉隆昌村卻傳出台灣獼猴危害越演越烈,農友林德義說,他的果園被兩批猴子上下夾攻「搶收」,損失達五成,各種去除猴子的方法試了都不見成效,真不知該怎麼辦。
Photo: Chang Tsun-wei, Liberty times
照片:自由時報記者張存薇攝
林德義的果園在省道台十一線旁靠山邊,他無奈的說,種釋迦廿多年,之前猴害沒這麼嚴重,今年可能因為天氣冷,山上的猴子沒東西吃、紛紛下山,「照三餐採釋迦」,滿果園都是被猴子肆虐後剩下的果皮、套袋,不但沒得採收、整理起來還要費人工。
(自由時報 記者張存薇)
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