This large banana order for Japan is more than the total volume sold to Japan over the past five years! How did the Council of Agriculture persuade Japan to pay?
Taiwan's agricultural products achieved great results at the Foodex Japan international food exhibition in Tokyo, including signing a 10,000-metric-ton, 500 million contract for bananas, nearly more than the total volume sold to Japan over the past five years. For aquatic products, orders worth 1.8 billion were also signed. Chen Chi-chung of the Council of Agriculture said that in the future it will make every effort to integrate domestic agricultural product export platforms, with the goal of increasing export volume by 10% each year, and this year's (2019) export target is 6 billion US dollars.
Chen Chi-chung said that when Japanese people saw Taiwan's jujubes were as beautiful as apples, they were all amazed. No other country in the world can produce more than thirty kinds of fruit like Taiwan, and from tropical to frigid zones, the quality is also good. Exporting is only one part of boosting agriculture; domestic demand is also very important. "In the past year or two, agriculture has become everyone's agriculture. When everyone cares about agriculture, please eat more domestic agricultural products."
News background: In 2018, the total value of Taiwan's agricultural exports was about 5,463,332,000 US dollars, of which Japan accounted for 922,489,000 US dollars (about 28,135,914,000 New Taiwan dollars), accounting for 16.9% of total exports.
