Vegetable prices remain high after typhoons. Last Wednesday the average price of produce at Taipei’s produce markets had gone down from the previous day, but it was still NT$44.7 per kilogram, with coriander at NT$600/kg, basil at NT$322/kg, and lettuce and yam leaves exceeding NT$60/kg.
Agriculture and Food Agency (AFA) Director Li Tsang-lang said that prices on Wednesday last week had already started stabilizing, and that he expected the average price to be back down around NT$35/kg before the Mid-Autumn Festival.
The AFA is set to release 200 tonnes of frozen vegetables — 400,000 bags of affordable frozen veggies — to farmers’ association supermarkets throughout the nation, which will include scallions, broccoli, cucumber, diced white radish and cabbage, all to be sold in 400g bags for NT$35 each.
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(Liberty Times, Translated by Kyle Jeffcoat)
颱風過後,菜價居高不下,上週三台北果菜市場平均批發菜價雖已較上週二下跌,但每公斤仍要四十四點七元,香菜要六百元、九層塔三百二十二元,萵苣、地瓜葉超過六十元。
農糧署長李蒼郎表示,上週三菜價已開始回穩,預估中秋節前平均菜價將回跌至三十五元。
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農糧署將在全國農會超市釋出兩百公噸、約四十萬包平價冷凍蔬菜,包括青蔥、青花菜、大黃瓜與白蘿蔔丁、高麗菜等一包四百公克只要三十五元。
(自由時報記者鍾麗華)
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