After Typhoon Fanapi leaves Taiwan, consumers may find that the average price of vegetables have lowered by 10% instead of going up. It is because farmers have harvested before the storm, increasing the vegetable supply by 20 to 30%.

Shoppers don't hesitate to buy green onion as they notice the prices are lower than the day before.

Farmers rushed to harvest vegetables prior to the typhoon, this prompts the volume of available vegetables to go up by 30% and inadvertenly lowers the prices.

For example, the prices for green onion slide from NT$105 to NT$75, the prices drop from NT$30 to NT$26 for cabbage.

However, the prices remain in the same range for green pepper, corn and other vegetables commonly consumed during the Mid-Autumn Festival.

Hypermarts continue to promote the low-priced vegetables such as baby bokchoy and sweet potato leaves, which are sold at NT$8 per batch.

But there seem to be less shoppers because of the typhoon.

While most people and farmers have prepared way ahead, this contributes to the stable prices of vegetables during this typhoon.