Agriculture Headlines (October 6th, 2023-October 12, 2023)
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- Restoration of Lanyu’s Kaiyuan Harbor (開元漁港) and Taitung County’s Fugang Harbor (富岡漁港): After Typhoon Koinu battered southern and eastern Taiwan, Eighty vessels in Lanyu’s Kaiyuan Harbor (開元漁港) have sunk, of which 46 have been pulled out of the water and 34 remain submerged are to restored, along with the clearing of the channel beside the red lighthouse at Taitung County’s Fugang Harbor (富岡漁港) with about 10 ships.
- Import subsidy not to blame for local pork’s fall: The Ministry of Agriculture on October 10 denied that subsidies for imported pork are to blame for the falling market share of domestic pork in the nation. Import subsidies were implemented to stabilize the domestic pork market, the ministry said, attributing local pork’s falling market share to efforts to transform the pig farming industry and rising international raw material prices.