Garlic merchants say in person that excessive inventory of imported garlic is a fake, and the impact of international garlic prices on local garlic prices is the main reason.

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(upstream and downstream reporters Kong Delian and Cai Jiashan / tr. by Phil Newell)

In recent years, the price of domestic garlic fluctuates, which is not only affected by multiple factors such as the increase or decrease of production area, the amount of output, the difference in climate temperature and the quantity of imports; farmers are more consistent, pointing directly at garlic merchants who import foreign garlic and buy domestic garlic at the same time. "joint monopoly" lowers the price of local garlic, resulting in a straight fall in production income. Is it true that Taiwan imports too much foreign garlic? Is there an explosive quantity of garlic in storage? Why does garlic become a "speculative futures" in the international market? "upstream and downstream" personally visited the garlic suppliers all over Taiwan and put aside the fog of garlic production and marketing.

Question 1: is it true or false for excessive imports and bumper domestic harvests?

On March 25, KMT legislator Zhang Lishan and others held a press conference in the Legislative Yuan, pointing out that the drop in the price of garlic was due to the government's ineffective import control. According to the data, the annual import of garlic is about 3000 to 5000 metric tons over the years, soaring to 18,000 metric tons in 105 years, and as high as 20 8000 metric tons last year, increasing year after year.

Zhang Lishan even stressed that there were still 10 1662 metric tons of refrigerated garlic imported last year. Under the favorable weather conditions and good harvest this year, garlic merchants stopped buying because they were worried that they would not be able to digest it, resulting in a sharp drop in prices.

On this view, Yunlin garlic large plate merchants (hereinafter referred to as A garlic merchants) refuted that "it is not true at all." He imports and buys local garlic. As far as he knows, imports have already been digested pretty much. At present, the maximum amount of imports left in storage is 1,000 to 2,000 tons.

He further points out that Taiwan uses a lot of garlic, and even though the amount of imported plus domestic garlic reached more than 60,000 metric tons in 1993, more than 50,000 metric tons last year, it has been successfully digested completely, not to mention that the actual harvest in this year's producing area is not as good as imagined, and the overall estimated output has increased by less than 10%.

Actually came to Yunlin garlic field, in the sun, wearing hats, heavily armed Obasang are busy picking with scissors. Ask if there is a bumper harvest? Landlord Cai, surnamed garlic farmer, said, "there is no bumper harvest!" It is the businessman who strangled to death and kept the price down! "

Cai surnamed garlic farmer said that his harvest was fairly good. He collected 3000 jin of wet garlic per cent of land and sold it to the dealer for 15 yuan per jin. Some people charge only 2000 jin per cent of land, which is simply not enough to cover the cost. According to the estimates of the Agriculture and Food Administration, the production cost per cent of land is between 40,000 and 50,000 yuan, that is to say, the cost per catty can range from 12 to 20 yuan.

The drama of garlic soil and gold is repeated every few years, and the price can never be decided by farmers. (photo ╱ Kong Delian)

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