Hoping to Solve the "Cheap Vegetables, Golden Vegetables" Problem, the Council of Agriculture Promotes a "Vegetable Production and Marketing Information Integration Platform" for Price Transparency and Resistance to Fluctuations

To solve the long-criticized problem of "cheap vegetables, golden vegetables," the Council of Agriculture today announced the establishment of a "Vegetable Production and Marketing Information Integration Platform," which is expected to integrate climate information, production forecasts, vegetable production areas, import volumes, and wholesale market trading prices, all on a single platform. For farmers such as professional farmers and young farmers, they will be able in the future to adjust production decisions based on the public information on the platform, which is expected to avoid price fluctuations and further increase farmers' incomes. In addition, the Council of Agriculture is simultaneously expanding rolling storage and promoting reinforced facilities, hoping to stabilize the ups and downs in vegetable prices caused by the flood season.

How to Solve Rush Planting? Chen Chi-chung: Respect the Market Mechanism, the Government's Responsibility Is to Make Information Public

As for whether the rush-planting problem can be solved, and whether mandatory force should be used to intervene, Chen Chi-chung stressed that the market mechanism will be respected, but the government's responsibility is to make information public and let farmers make their own choices; it will not restrict farmers' planting area. Once this information is integrated and farmers can use and operate it, the Council of Agriculture is confident it can solve the problem of production and marketing imbalance and stabilize vegetable prices at a certain level.

Su Mao-hsiang also pointed out that since what farmers care about most is wholesale market trading prices, the Agriculture and Food Agency has now connected the
APP and the information platform with wholesale market trading prices, making it convenient for farmers to use, and on the other hand will hold education and training within one month, while also passing on the news through farmers' groups, hoping to greatly increase usage. Vegetable Production and Marketing Information Integration Query Platform. The public is welcome to go online to check related production and marketing information.

Vegetable Production and Marketing Information Integration Query Platform