Breaking through the pandemic! Han Kuo-yu invites farmers' groups to take the initiative in the home delivery market

To help farmers' groups within its jurisdiction understand the response measures related to the COVID-19 pandemic, Kaohsiung City- invited various farmers' associations on the evening of yesterday (the 30th) to hold a policy briefing. Mayor Han Kuo-yu also led officials from the Agriculture, Ocean and other related bureaus to attend, listen to their concerns and exchange views. He said that because the pandemic has made people unwilling to go out, the city government is cooperating with the city farmers' association to establish the "Kaohsiung First Choice E-commerce Platform" to promote matchmaking between production and sales of high-quality agricultural and fishery products and increase sales of agricultural and fishery products. The public is welcome to place orders through the Kaohsiung First Choice platform to have high-quality agricultural and fishery products delivered to their homes. The city government will also work hand in hand with everyone to overcome the difficulties of this pandemic and prepare to open up new markets.

As the COVID-19 virus is currently raging around the world, in coordination with the central government's relief and revitalization measures, the Kaohsiung City Government has proposed 6 major response measures, including dispersing overseas markets, strengthening domestic channels, optimizing the capacity of e-commerce platforms, providing relief loans, adjusting the industrial structure and providing relief and revitalization for leisure agriculture, in the hope of helping farmers' groups overcome these difficulties.

The Kaohsiung City Agriculture Bureau said that because the COVID-19 pandemic has spread globally and Malaysia's pandemic prevention policy was recently implemented, Singapore's vegetables, fruits and livestock products and other supplies have been affected one after another, which has relatively increased demand for Taiwan fruit. Kaohsiung's agricultural sector is seizing the good opportunity and has recently successively loaded high-quality fruits such as pineapples, guavas, red-fleshed guavas, wax apples, jujubes, papayas and cherry tomatoes into containers for sale to Singapore. From this year (109) to March, exports to Singapore increased 3 times.