The Ministry of Agriculture (MOA) has teamed up with retail chains to set up affordable cabbage sections in stores to stabilize prices and meet consumer demand after Typhoon Danas caused serious damage to farms in central and southern Taiwan earlier this month.
The ministry’s Agriculture and Food Agency on Sunday said that it is working with farmers’ organizations to manage refrigerated vegetable inventories and ensure stable market supply.
The agency has also partnered with 1,581 supermarket and hypermarket branches across the nation to set up cabbage promotion zones, where each head of cabbage is priced no more than NT$90.
Photo: Chen Kuan-bei, Taipei Times
The promotion, which started on Saturday, is to run until Sunday next week, at the following retail chains: PX Mart (1,230 stores), RT-Mart (20 stores), Carrefour (67 hypermarkets and 250 supermarkets) and A.mart (14 stores).
The typhoon primarily affected areas south of Changhua County, leaving highland-grown cabbages and facility-grown vegetables in northern Taiwan relatively unaffected, the agency said.
Supplies of vegetables such as leafy greens from Taoyuan, highland cabbages, sprouts, root vegetables and mushrooms are stable, it said.
Additionally, there is ample cabbage inventory from this year’s winter harvest and international shipping remains stable, allowing imports of vegetables to supplement domestic demand, the agency said.
Weather conditions in agricultural areas have recently stabilized and farmers in affected regions have begun preparing land for replanting, the agency said.
Supply of leafy greens and gourds should gradually recover early next month, it said.
The government should improve children’s outdoor spaces and accelerate carbon reduction programs, as the risk of heat-related injury due to high summer temperatures rises each year, Greenpeace told a news conference yesterday. Greenpeace examined summer temperatures in Taipei, New Taipei City, Taoyuan, Hsinchu City, Taichung, Tainan and Kaohsiung to determine the effects of high temperatures and climate change on children’s outdoor activities, citing data garnered by China Medical University, which defines a wet-bulb globe temperature (WBGT) of 29°C or higher as posing the risk of heat-related injury. According to the Central Weather Administration, WBGT, commonly referred to as the heat index, estimates
Taipei and other northern cities are to host air-raid drills from 1:30pm to 2pm tomorrow as part of urban resilience drills held alongside the Han Kuang exercises, Taiwan’s largest annual military exercises. Taipei, New Taipei City, Keelung, Taoyuan, Yilan County, Hsinchu City and Hsinchu County are to hold the annual Wanan air defense exercise tomorrow, following similar drills held in central and southern Taiwan yesterday and today respectively. The Taipei Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) and Maokong Gondola are to run as usual, although stations and passenger parking lots would have an “entry only, no exit” policy once air raid sirens sound, Taipei
Taipei placed 14th in the Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) Best Student Cities 2026 list, its highest ever, according to results released yesterday. With an overall score of 89.1, the city climbed 12 places from the previous year, surpassing its previous best ranking of 17th in 2019. Taipei is “one of Asia’s leading higher-education hubs,” with strong employer activity scores and students “enjoying their experience of the city and often keen to stay after graduation,” a QS staff writer said. In addition to Taipei, Hsinchu (71st), Tainan (92nd), Taichung (113th) and Taoyuan (130th) also made QS’ list of the top 150 student cities. Hsinchu showed the
Environmental groups yesterday filed an appeal with the Executive Yuan, seeking to revoke the environmental impact assessment (EIA) conditionally approved in February for the Hsieh-ho Power Plant’s planned fourth liquefied natural gas (LNG) receiving station off the coast of Keelung. The appeal was filed jointly by the Protect Waimushan Seashore Action Group, the Wild at Heart Legal Defense Association and the Keelung City Taiwan Head Cultural Association, which together held a news conference outside the Executive Yuan in Taipei. Explaining the reasons for the appeal, Wang Hsing-chih (王醒之) of the Protect Waimushan Seashore Action Group said that the EIA failed to address
RSS