The reporter restores the truth! Qishan Meinong banana "did not abandon the scene" Please do not spread to hurt farmers

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This morning, a friend in Taipei sent me a photo of a pile of discarded bananas through communication software, which read: "the news on the scene of bananas abandoned in Meinung, Kaohsiung Flag Mountain dare not be reported, and everything is blocked." Then he asked me directly, "really?"

When I glanced at this picture, I thought it looked familiar. When I recalled that I was a PTV reporter 11 years ago when I interviewed a special report on the sharp drop in banana prices, I was suddenly shocked. "isn't this the picture I took with photographer Chen Tianbao in Chimei area of Kaohsiung in 2007?"

Since this photo and the maliciously smeared picture said that it had a great impact on the banana industry and farmers, I specially wrote down that I wanted to reduce the damage, and I also returned to the scene where the photo was taken to re-shoot the scene that is now empty. I want the outside world to know the truth.

Maliciously transferred flowers and trees on the Internet have been smeared as the site for the disposal of bananas (pictured above), which is the open space behind the Da Cang branch of the Kaohsiung Meinung Farmers' Association. Eleven years ago, from April to July, this vacant lot did store many bananas that farmers had applied for scrapping, but now the fence is a cement-reinforced red brick wall, and the site is already empty (bottom picture).

Maliciously transferred flowers and trees on the Internet have been smeared as the site for the disposal of bananas, which is the rear open space of the Da Cang branch of the Kaohsiung Meinung Peasant Association. The scene in 2018 is already empty. Photography / Li Huiyi

Banana prices fell sharply in the summer of 2007, and bananas were scattered and piled into mountains.

In the early summer of 2007, domestic banana production soared and banana prices plummeted. Since April 1, the Agriculture and Food Administration of the Council of Agriculture launched a rural security project for bananas and purchased bananas from farmers at a price of 5 yuan per kilogram for three months. During this period, the government collected a total of 9192 metric tons of bananas.

Chen Tianbao and I took pictures of farmers using small rickshaws to load bananas into the peasant associations at the Dakang branch of the Meinung Farmers' Association, one of the sites where bananas were purchased by the Agriculture and Food Department. at the same time, we also saw that the farmers' associations invited strange hands and bulldozers to push the scattered bananas into banana mountains. only in this way can we make room for further storage of bananas scrapped by farmers. This photo, which was maliciously used to spread error messages, was taken at this time.

The price of bananas dropped in the summer of 2018.

This year is 2018 AD. Eleven years later, bananas have once again experienced a crisis of explosive quantity and price drop, and farmers have complained one after another. At the same time, the government has urgently stepped in to rescue this, offering measures to expand access, strengthen marketing, procurement and processing, guidance and export, purchase and scrap, and so on.

Although so far, the Council of Agriculture has admitted that it is not strong enough, what worries producers and banana farmers most is not when prices will rise, but the wrong messages that appear again and again on the Internet. Zhu Xiuwen, a farming instructor at the Meinung Peasant Association, said that it is very immoral to spread old photos of stacked bananas that were decommercialized 11 years ago on the Internet.

He said: "when the general public sees this picture, they will think that this kind of banana is everywhere in the countryside, and when buying fruit, they will expect that the price of bananas should not be high. This consumer mentality will make it more difficult for bananas to pick up in the market. The efforts of farmers, the government and people from all walks of life will be greatly reduced! "

It is hoped that all sectors of society will be guided by malicious rumors and misinformation. Eating more domestic agricultural products and buying more bananas at this stage is the greatest support to the industry and farmers.

Saving three arrows from banana prices, the Council of Agriculture called for the auction price to rise back to 15 yuan per kilogram next week.

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