With the impact of the epidemic situation of Wufei, farmers in Taiwan are fighting to help themselves. Vice President of Xingda: do a good job in epidemic prevention and continue to open the market to support farmers.

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The epidemic situation of Xinguan pneumonia (commonly known as Wuhan pneumonia) affects the consumption habits of Chinese people. Farmers 'markets sold directly by small farmers everywhere are facing the challenge of balancing epidemic prevention and maintaining sales. In order to take care of the livelihood of small farmers, some farmers 'markets have not been closed, but strict self-epidemic prevention has been adopted. Farmers wear masks, take body temperature, provide disinfectant alcohol and dry cleaning hands, etc. Some markets are temporarily closed, and online ordering and logistics are used to assist small farmers in selling. "Upstream and Downstream" The current situation of cities in Taiwan, providing consumers with a reference to choose.

Taipei Hope Square: Buying vegetables is the demand of people's livelihood. For farmers, the market cannot be closed.

Zhang Limei, director of the supply and marketing department of New Taipei City Agricultural Association, which is in charge of the management of Hope Square, the largest farmers 'market in Taiwan, said that at the beginning of February, affected by the epidemic, the performance dropped by 20%, but now it has stabilized. Although the epidemic command center issued a proposal to suspend new activities, it will not stop the market at present.

"If we want to stop the market, we don't have to do the vegetable market." Zhang Limei said that Hope Square is an important sales base for farmers, random suspension will make farmers livelihood crisis, but at the same time also need to do epidemic prevention measures. Zhang Limei explained that the day before the opening of the market, disinfection will be carried out after the end of the market, will also confirm the farmers 'attendance status, ask whether there is fever, and help each farmer measure the temperature before the opening of the market, once the fever will ask the farmers to rest that week, at the same time require each farmer to wear masks throughout the process.

Taipei Water Garden Organic Farmers Market: Closed for Green Restaurant and Logistics Assistance, Continue to Sell Vegetables

Huang Chun-cheng, manager of the Water Garden Organic Farmers 'Market on Pukui Road at National Taiwan University, explains that the market is located on National Taiwan University campus. In order to coordinate with the market's closing since March, in order to help farmers, green restaurants have been arranged to help sell, and flexible collection of goods will also help small farmers reduce transportation costs.

"Smallholders of a slightly productive size have the greatest impact." Huang Chun-cheng explains that the market farmers are mainly composed of part-time farmers, small-scale farmers, and small-scale farmers. Among them, part-time farmers and small-scale farmers have relatively small production volumes and can adjust their output independently. However, small-scale farmers are professional farmers and rely on selling agricultural products for income. Therefore, the market is the most affected.

Water Garden Organic Farmers Market, Farmers 'Weekly Epidemic Prevention Before the Market Closed (Photo Provided_Lin Meihui)

Huang Juncheng said that at present, some farmers have changed to set up stalls in markets that are not closed, or make face-to-face agreements with regular customers to exchange agricultural products. Markets help farmers sell agricultural products through matchmaking green restaurants. However, he observes that green restaurants used to be able to buy directly from the market, purchasing a small number of diverse agricultural products from multiple producers at a time, but now each agricultural product has to be delivered from the place of origin, resulting in a large increase in freight costs. For example, if a restaurant has an order for four pineapples, if they are delivered from the place of origin, each pineapple will add tens of dollars in transportation costs, which will greatly affect the willingness of customers to purchase.

Huang Juncheng said that he had negotiated with a slightly larger organic agricultural company and expected to solve the problem in a "free ride" manner. In the future, the market will first integrate the order quantity of green restaurants and the quantity of farmers 'delivery items. Every week, farmers will be asked to deliver vegetables at the collection office of the agricultural company. After the agricultural company delivers its own products to Datong Road, it will deliver the products of market stall friends to green restaurants on the way back. "Agricultural companies only charge for delivery, and for farmers and restaurants, the pressure on freight is greatly reduced."

Hsinchu 13 Good Market: Closed for two weeks, changed to online shopping, store continues to operate

Located in Hsinchu County Xinwawu Hakka Cultural Park 13 good market, Market staff said, The epidemic caused the Chinese people to go out frequency reduced, Market performance also reduced by 10%, Last week domestic confirmed cases increased sharply, The number of visitors is more than half, Next will be closed for two weeks, The market will still help farmers sell agricultural products.

At present, the contact information of all farmers has been published on the fan page, so that customers can buy directly from farmers. Next, the form will be designed as an online shopping service, and the physical store of the market in Xintiawu will operate normally, allowing visitors to pick up and purchase.

Bamboo Dragonfly Green Market in Hsinchu: Closed once, changed to online ordering and fixed-point collection

Su Zhihong, one of the founders of the Bamboo Dragonfly Green Market located in Tsinghua University Campus in the eastern district of Hsinchu City, explained that the government of Hsinchu City had issued suggestions last week that parties of more than 10 people should be cancelled. Recently, the first confirmed case came out of Qingda University. The case contacted many students, which made the school alert higher now. At present, the market has decided to close the market once on March 28 and observe it later.

Su Zhihong explained that the supporting measures for the suspension of the market are pick-up stations, which will announce in advance on the market website what dishes can be ordered, and deliver goods in Qingda Shuimu Bookstore and small shops in the old Urban area. "The farmers in the market are almost all small farmers, and their production flexibility is relatively high. We have passed the days when there were more market workers than visitors. There should be nothing difficult for us."

Bamboo Dragonfly Green Market Self-epidemic Prevention (Photo Source_Bamboo Dragonfly Green Market) Hsinchu Xiangshan Green Market: Not closed yet, considering the next step

Qiu Chen, manager of Xiangshan Green Market near Bamboo Dragonfly Green Market, said that since the opening of the New Year's Day, the epidemic has increased the proportion of Chinese self-cooking, and the market performance has continued to grow. However, with the continuous increase of confirmed cases, especially the first case recently reported from Qingda University, due to the inability to predict the trend of the epidemic, supporting measures are being considered in case of market closure.

"Farmers and visitors don't want the market closed." Qiu Chen explained that after the outbreak of the epidemic, the market adopted independent management, all activities were cancelled, only on-site sales, farmers brought their own masks, the proportion of cooked food on site was also reduced, even if there were cooked food, packaging was done first, reducing the opportunity to contact the air, most of the visitors were fixed to the market to purchase nearby residents, the market for farmers and visitors are a part of life.

Qiu Chen said that if the market is really closed, the next step may be to do online shopping. At present, the evaluation will encounter freight problems. It may be compared with the green market practice to pick up goods at fixed points, or let neighboring farmers deliver them together to solve the problem.

Taiwan Zhongxing Big Organic Farmers Market: Open the market for epidemic prevention and support farmers

Huang Chen-wen, one of the founders of the 13-year-old Hsingta Organic Farmers Market and former dean of Chung Hsing University's College of Agriculture and now vice president, says that Chung Hsing University is based on agriculture, and it is the university's social responsibility to take care of farmers. It is better to do a thorough epidemic prevention than to continue to open the market for farmers to sell.

Huang Zhenwen said that since its establishment 13 years ago, the market has more than 15000 members, of which more than 2000 loyal customers rely on organic fruits and vegetables produced by farmers in the market. For customers, farmers 'markets are important purchasing places. If the market is really closed, it will cause trouble and farmers will lose their sales bases.

"Farmers in the market are more strict with each other than managers." Huang Zhenwen said, From the end of January, The market will adopt self-management, Farmers must wear masks, Tents will also do disinfection, There are many places near the market can wash hands, Eight fixed points in the market placed alcohol, The student restaurant next to the market will take temperature, Weekly market after the end of the site and toilet disinfection.

Huang Zhenwen said, The market also had visitors do not worry, Self-sent agricultural products for inspection, And the results of the inspection will let visitors to Xingda farmers market trust higher, Management team, Farmers and consumers have a strong foundation of mutual trust, The responsibility of the market is to do a good job of comprehensive epidemic prevention, Let visitors can purchase high-quality organic agricultural products,"We epidemic prevention again tired will not be harder than farmers."