Farmer's Supply Chain In Taiwan

(2/20/2013) The increasing fuel price doubles down the overproduction of Asian eggplant in Taiwan. According to this report (in Chinese), the wholesale price of Asian eggplant in Taiwan at this moment is less than 8 cents per pound. One culprit is the warm weather that makes eggplant overgrow. The farmers have to let go the crops without harvesting because the fuel price is too high to ship from the farmland to the market (Taipei) and stay profitable. The unpredictable weather in Taiwan has been a big problem to farmers: The weather in Taiwan is subject to huge variation in heat, rain, typhoons and drought.

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