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In order to strengthen the control of litchi stink weevil in Taiwan, the purchase price of litchi stink bug egg slices in four counties and cities has been raised to 5 yuan.

Published: 2024-11-05 Author: mysheen
Last Updated: 2024/11/05, In order to control the litchi stink bug, the Prevention and Inspection Bureau said that since the 1st, the price of the government's purchase of litchi stink bug egg slices in four counties and cities, including Taichung City, Kaohsiung City, Nantou County and Changhua County, has been adjusted to 5 yuan per piece, so as to increase the public's willingness to help remove the egg slices. At the same time,

In order to prevent litchi stink bug, the Bureau of Prevention and Inspection said that since the 1st, the price of litchi stink bug eggs purchased by the government in four counties and cities, including Taichung City, Kaohsiung City, Nantou County and Changhua County, has been adjusted to 5 yuan per piece, so as to increase the willingness of the public to assist in removing litchi stink bug eggs, and at the same time, to reduce the harm caused by litchi stink bug by strengthening chemical control measures.

To strengthen the control of litchi bugs, Taichung will raise the purchase price to 5 yuan

Zou Huijuan, deputy director of the Bureau of Prevention and Inspection, said that due to the influence of warm winter, litchi and longan flowering in some areas is not good, so as to avoid farmers 'inadequate control and management, and to improve the overall control effect of litchi stink bug diseases and insect pests. At the end of February, the subsidy for chemical control materials has been increased from 500 yuan per hectare to 2000 yuan per hectare. In addition, in order to improve farmers 'willingness to pick litchi stink bug eggs, since the 1st, Taichung City, Kaohsiung City, Nantou County, Changhua County and other four county and city governments to purchase eggs from 3 yuan per piece to 5 yuan per piece.

Lin Hung-min, chief of the Crop Production Section of Taichung City Agricultural Bureau, said that Taichung set a precedent for purchasing eggs in Taiwan last year, purchasing 140,000 eggs of litchi stink bug at a price of 2 yuan per piece. Since March and April this year, more than 30,000 eggs of litchi stink bug have been received since the opening of the purchase of eggs of litchi stink bug at 3 yuan per piece.

As for the purchase of eggs in Changhua County, Su Qihuai, head of the Agricultural Affairs and Plant Protection Section of the Agricultural Department, said that the purchase price of eggs has been increased from 2 yuan to 3 yuan per piece. Since March this year, 70,387 eggs of litchi stink bugs have been purchased. Based on an average of 14 eggs per piece, nearly one million litchi stink bugs have been prevented from hatching.

In addition, due to the relatively mild situation of litchi stink bug in Kaohsiung this year, Zhang Yunping, chief of the Plant Epidemic Prevention and Ecological Conservation Section of Kaohsiung City Agricultural Bureau, said that about 2000 litchi stink bug eggs were received between February 18 and April 22. At present, almost all litchi stink bugs in Kaohsiung City have hatched into nymph, and will coordinate with farmers 'associations around the country to purchase eggs. If farmers still provide litchi stink bug eggs, they will continue to purchase them.

 
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