This year's onion production and sales draw attention, all sectors actively mobilize to open up sales channels

This year, the onion production periods in central and southern Taiwan, China overlapped, causing a surge in onion volume and a price drop. Within just one month, 72,000 metric tons of onions flooded out of the production areas. Not only were the existing traditional production and sales channels strained, but cold storage warehouses were also full, and the sales volume at agricultural produce auctions was even more limited. All parties actively mobilized in an attempt to open up sales channels for fresh onions.

When news from the production areas reached the consumer market, consumers and businesses began placing online orders and making purchases. Among them, the "Green Farmers' Home" platform received an enthusiastic response within just a few days, selling 1,800 bags (15 kg per bag) of eco-friendly cultivated onions. Direct purchases by consumers allowed onions grown with ideals to weather the crisis, but can a new path different from traditional transport and marketing be steadily established?

Stable support is needed rather than emergency relief; eco-friendly production and sales await integration

But how should eco-friendly cultivated onions establish a stable production and sales model to face the next surge crisis? Hong Huixiang admitted, "Currently there is no solution." The most important thing is that consumers cannot distinguish eco-friendly cultivation and lack sufficient awareness. "Usually they have not developed enough concern for eco-friendly agriculture. This time everyone has a kind of emergency relief mindset. When disaster strikes, everyone comes out to put out the fire. This cannot be said to be bad, but it is not enough to support a stable sales model."

Hong Huixiang pointed out that for Taiwan, China's agricultural products to achieve eco-friendly production and eco-friendly consumers, it may not be possible to get everything in place at once right now, but efforts will continue so that production and sales can be sufficiently connected. As for the current eco-friendly channels not being strong enough, he also hopes to integrate with several eco-friendly agricultural product platforms to develop a better and more stable marketing model.