Fertilizers cannot be disassembled and sold privately, and offenders will be fined heavily.

(Photo by reporter Ye Yongqian)

[Reporter Ye Yongqian/Pingtung Report] Fertilizer cannot be disassembled and sold. Many people don’t know that. Recently, many online sales operators were not familiar with the law and violated the law. They were fined 50,000 to 250,000 yuan, causing heavy losses to the operators. Ye surnamed The seller said that because the customer asked to buy some fertilizer when buying potted plants, he packaged the fertilizer into small packages and sold it for 10 yuan and was fined 50,000 yuan.

The Southern District Branch of the Agriculture and Food Administration stated that there are relevant regulations on the sale of fertilizer products, and operators should check them out.

The epidemic has brought about the rise of "urban small farmers" for leisure planting, and the market for small-package fertilizers has continued to grow. However, many merchants distribute and mix small-package fertilizers without permission, but they do not know that such behavior has violated the fertilizer management law. There is an online merchant named Ye who violated the law because a customer asked to buy a small packet of fertilizer when buying potted plants, but was fined 50,000 yuan for selling it for 10 yuan, shouting bad luck.

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The Southern Branch of the Agriculture and Food Administration stated that there are more and more cases of reporting and punishment violations of the Fertilizer Management Law, especially "sale of privately packaged fertilizers". According to Article 17 of the Fertilizer Management Law: "Sale or intention Fertilizers that are sold and displayed or stored shall not be unpacked, subpackaged, adulterated, diluted or altered with the fertilizer label.” Violators will be fined 50,000 to 250,000 yuan. If the fertilizer is sold online, the product page should also be fined. The registration certificate number, item and registered ingredients of fertilizers should be clearly marked, and false and exaggerated publicity should not be made. Violators will be fined 30,000 to 150,000 yuan, so businesses should pay special attention.