The Kuomintang League held a press conference today (28th) on "Kaohsiung Bananas Abandoning the Land, Farmers' Insurance and Funeral Allowances Low, Chen Jizhong, and the First Choice". Participants included Li Dewei, Secretary of the Kuomintang League, Wu Yiding and Chen Yixin, the Deputy Secretary of the Kuomintang, and the mayor of Kaohsiung, the Kuomintang. Candidate Ke Zhien attended by videoconference.

(Provided by the Kuomintang Caucus of the Legislative Yuan)

[Reporter Wang Qianhao/Taipei Report] In response to the recent collapse in banana prices, the Kuomintang Group of the Legislative Yuan held a press conference today, criticizing the Agricultural Committee for only purchasing bananas from the Pingtung area, allowing banana farmers in other areas to simply discard the excess bananas under cost considerations. The roadside was taken by others, and he accused Chen Jizhong, chairman of the Agricultural Committee, who was busy in supporting elections in various places at the moment.

In this regard, Guo Guowen, secretary of the Democratic Progressive Party, said that the current price of qualified bananas has gradually stabilized.

Wu Yiding, deputy secretary of the Kuomintang League, said that based on past experience, the problem of overproduction of bananas had already occurred in 2018. At that time, the counties and cities that accepted the acquisition included Nantou, Chiayi, Tainan, Kaohsiung and Pingtung and other banana producing areas. This year, only Pingtung handled the acquisition.

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Regarding the acquisition mechanism, Wu Yiding pointed out that the Agricultural Committee held a "production and marketing consultation meeting" to consult the farmers' associations in various counties and cities on how to adjust agricultural products, but there was no meeting minutes. basis.

As a result of the peasant association's wrestling, Kaohsiung banana farmers were excluded from this acquisition.

She further pointed out that the Agriculture and Food Administration believes that Kaohsiung did not meet the standards for initiating acquisitions and de-chemicalization. The so-called standards do not have any scientific data at all, and the decision was made by the peasant association.

She called on Kaohsiung Mayor Chen Qimai to take advantage of the good relationship with the Central Committee to help Kaohsiung Qishan banana farmers!

Chen Yixin, deputy secretary-general of the Kuomintang League, said that the Agricultural Committee launched banana income insurance in 2019. After two years of promotion, only 10% of the national banana planting area was insured, and the other 90% were not insured.

Chen Jizhong's banana policy has changed from unbalanced production and sales, unfavorable exports to the failure of banana insurance promotion, and has completely disappeared the pride of the "banana kingdom".

KMT Kaohsiung mayor candidate Ke Zhien said that she went to Qishan to visit banana farmers on the 21st, and learned that the current purchase price is 8 yuan per kilogram for good quality, 2.5 yuan per kilogram for inferior products, and the average purchase price is 5 yuan, but banana farmers said that every Only 15 yuan per kilogram can reach the balance of profit and loss.

Ke Zhien pointed out that bananas abandoned by banana farmers can be seen on the roads near the banana plantation plantation in Qishan. The banana farmers reluctantly said that only Pingtung is buying them now, and the oil and labor costs are carried to Pingtung. , it is simply not enough to equalize the money obtained from the acquisition, so just put it on the roadside and let people take it at will.

Li Dewei, secretary-general of the Kuomintang League, said that the Kuomintang League has always been concerned about the livelihood of banana farmers. Now the banana farmers in Gaoping area are miserable. Auxiliary election.

In addition, Li Dewei pointed out that the Kuomintang Group will accelerate the revision of the "Farmers' Health Insurance Regulations" during this session, and increase the agricultural insurance funeral allowance to 30 months of the monthly insured amount, about 306,000 yuan, in order to reduce the family's economic burden. .

He said that the irony is that even the snack "Guaiguo" has been increased by five times in the past 30 years, and the agricultural security funeral allowance has not been adjusted for 33 years.

The Kuomintang League will work hard to amend the law and take care of the rights and interests of the vast number of farmers.

In this regard, Guo Guowen pointed out that after entering the autumn, the relative price has gradually stabilized. With the production and sales adjustment measures, the current price of qualified bananas has gradually stabilized, and the inferior products are also used as animal feed.

In the part of agricultural insurance, the insured area of ​​bananas has also grown significantly.

Guo Guowen said that the decontextualized speech seems to be more concerned about the farmers, but in fact, he does not understand the situation of bananas at all. This year's high temperature and rainfall climate has led to a large number of B-grade bananas. mainly, causing prices to fall.