Taichung City Helps Farmers Stabilize Lily Prices Through Multi-Channel

Taichung City uses multiple channels to help farmers stabilize the price of lily

The climate is warm this year, and lilies flourish ahead of the Spring Festival. In order to stabilize prices and ease the pressure on supply and demand in the domestic market, the Taichung municipal government has used three channels to promote flower marketing, including holding flower promotion activities, export sales, and strengthening the appeal for national public purchase. as of January 19 this year, the average price of each lily in the lily wholesale market has reached 100 yuan, and the price of lily has stabilized. Taichung Municipal Bureau of Agriculture said that the maintenance of prices has achieved results, flower promotion activities will stop from the 20th, but export and floral activities will continue to be handled to promote Taichung's economic development.

The Taichung Municipal Bureau of Agriculture pointed out that due to the warmer weather this winter, many flowers in Taiwan blossomed earlier, and the city government actively promoted domestic and foreign marketing-related activities to stabilize the price of lilies and avoid falling prices. From December 29th last year to New Year's Day's four-day holiday, he launched "buy one get one free" activities of "buy one get one free" at the good farmers' bazaar of the three Fengyuan parks in Taichung and outside the city square of New Year's Day's flag-raising ceremony. a total of 6000 lilies were promoted. subsequently, a total of 44000 lilies were given out at the Haonong bazaar in the three Huabo parks on January 12, 13, and 14-19, respectively. At the same time, it also stepped up publicity through the peasant associations and called on the people all over the country to purchase jointly. As of the 19th, a total of 10000 pieces had been promoted.

In the export part, the Taichung Municipal Bureau of Agriculture launched the Taichung City Export Plan to expand the Foreign Market of Lily, from January 11 to May 31, traders, farmers' associations, farmers' groups and cooperative social farms across the country, as long as they purchase the lilies produced in Taichung from Taichung farmers for export, they can apply for a subsidy of 6 yuan per unit of packaging materials and 6 yuan of freight according to the actual export volume, and there is also a subsidy of 10 yuan per unit at the farmer's end. The target foreign sales this year is 200000, which will be exported to Japan and Hong Kong by January 25, 000.

▲ Taichung City uses multiple channels to help farmers stabilize the price of lily