The Peach City Bureau of Agriculture and the Consumer Protection Officer of the Legal Affairs Bureau visited the direct sales center of the Farmers Association, supermarkets, hypermarkets, and traditional markets to learn about the situation of eggs being put on shelves.

(Provided by the Peach City Agriculture Bureau)

[Reporter Zheng Shuting/Taoyuan Report] The egg shortage continues in Taiwan. Today, the Peach City Bureau of Agriculture and the Consumer Protection Officer of the Legal Affairs Bureau visited the direct sales center of farmers associations, supermarkets, hypermarkets, and traditional markets in the jurisdiction to learn about the situation and availability of eggs. Hoarding eggs or driving up prices, etc., the Bureau of Agriculture stated that if the public finds egg hoarding or price gouging in the retail market, they can complain to the municipal consumer protection unit.

Taoyuan Mayor Zhang Shanzheng presided over the municipal meeting on the 8th, asking the Bureau of Agriculture and the Bureau of Legal Affairs to pay more attention to the sale of eggs in the egg market, whether there is any price gouging and prevent blockages. Chen Guanyi, the director of the Agriculture Bureau, said that today he will visit the relevant channels with the consumer protection officer. Currently, the traditional market in Taoyuan City is small every day Eggs are supplied, purchased about once every 2 to 3 days. The price of white shell eggs is about 70 yuan per catty. They are sold out early in the morning, and there are only duck eggs at 80 yuan per catty left on the shelves. As for some stores, the supply is limited or batched. , Quanlian can still see a small amount of 1 box of 10 pieces of washed white-shell eggs for 65 yuan, and each purchase is limited to 2 boxes per person. 369 yuan for eggs.

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Chen Guanyi said that there are still cases of avian flu culling in the central and southern layer farms, resulting in a decrease in the number of layer hens, affecting the shortage of eggs in the northern market. However, most of the layer farms in Taoshi are self-produced and sold red-shell eggs. Before the egg shortage occurred, they were all sold at the channels of farmers’ associations in various districts of Taoshi. There is a limit of 1 box per person to avoid people who want to buy and hoard eggs.