The south entrance of the Daqingshui Tunnel at the 159.3-kilometer section of the Suhua Highway on Taiwan's No. 9 Line collapsed at 11:55 p.m. yesterday.

(Provided by the Fourth District Maintenance Engineering Office of the General Administration of Highways)

[Reporter Yang Yuanting/Taipei Report] The landslide at the south entrance of the Daqingshui Tunnel at 159.3 km of the Suhua Highway on Taiwan’s 9th Line is blocked. It is expected to be cleared at 5:00 p.m. Auction, the Agriculture and Food Administration of the Council of Agriculture announced today (12th) the immediate launch of the agricultural product freight subsidy mechanism. Farmers can apply for subsidies from the local county government. The subsidy standard will be adjusted according to the actual increase in the amount and the freight stipulated in the transportation contract. 1.3 yuan.

The Agriculture and Food Administration stated that it will subsidize the increased freight for the joint transportation of vegetables and fruits in Hualien and Taitung to the northern market through the south-link road, so as to reduce the burden on farmers and ensure the smooth transportation of agricultural products from Hualien to the northern market.

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The Agriculture and Food Administration further clarified that farmers’ groups in the Huadong area who conduct joint sales of vegetables and fruits and divert to supply the Taipei, Sanchong, and Taoyuan Fruit and Vegetable Wholesale Markets via the South Link Highway, from the day when the Suhua Highway traffic was interrupted to the day when the traffic vehicles resumed, during the opening period The increased freight can be applied to the local county government for subsidies in accordance with the "Su-Hua Highway Interrupted Agricultural Products Freight Subsidy Operation Procedure" of the Agriculture and Food Administration. The subsidy standard is adjusted according to the actual increase and the freight stipulated in the transportation contract. The maximum freight subsidy is 1.3 yuan per kilogram.

Yao Zhiwang, deputy director of the Agriculture and Food Administration, said that the vegetables in Ji'an, Hualien were mainly affected. Vegetables in this area had been auctioned in Beinong before. Then go north to auction Victoria.

The Taiwan Railway Bureau of the Ministry of Communications has also launched an agricultural product distribution mechanism to assist in the northward transportation of agricultural products by carrying vegetable and fruit trucks on trains. If you need to transport by rail, please contact the Taiwan Railway Bureau Hualien Station: 03-8337301, Suaoxin Station: 03 -9961004.

The Agriculture and Food Administration urges Huadong farmers and fruit and vegetable co-transporters to pay close attention to relevant information from the General Administration of Highways, and make good use of the above-mentioned response measures to ensure smooth fruit and vegetable transportation.