A WIN-WIN SITUATION?
Many vegetable farmers in Taiwan are facing the issue of overproduction this season, leading to an excessive stock of products such as lettuce, cabbage and carrot. But as a significant portion of Japan's own vegetable crops have been damaged by the recent earthquake, exporting Taiwan's agricultural surplus to the nation may be an ideal answer to both sides' problems.
Due to a crop surplus in Yunlin County, workers are busy transporting crates of cabbage into warehouse freezers.
An estimated 30 to 40 tons of produce, including cabbages and potatoes, were set to be exported to Japan when the tsunami and earthquake struck.
Because northeast Japan also happens to be the nation's main source of produce, the tsunami devastated the local agricultural industry.
As Taiwan happens to be facing a crop surplus, cooperative farms say that they will begin shipping produce as soon as Japan's harbors resume operations.
Taiwan's farmers had been facing steep losses due to overproduction, and Japan's post-earthquake demand for produce will help to bring up low vegetable prices.
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