China News Agency, Taipei, March 3, due to multiple detections of scale insects and other harmful organisms, the mainland has suspended the import of Taiwanese pineapples into the mainland from March 1.
The Taiwan authorities accused the mainland of "political suppression."
This matter continues to ferment on the island of Taiwan.
There is public opinion in Taiwan that the authorities need to change the mentality of "representing the responsibility for everything to the mainland" and seriously solve the pest problem.
According to Taiwan media reports, the mainland has repeatedly notified Taiwan of the issue of agricultural pests since last year, but Taiwan has turned a deaf ear to it.
"United Daily News" commented that the "pineapple turmoil" showed the incompetence of the DPP authorities in governing.
Not thinking about solving the problem, but shifting all the responsibility to the mainland, the Taiwan authorities should face up to this "scale insect" in the ruling mentality.
After the mainland announced the suspension of import measures on February 26, it immediately notified the Taiwan authorities through the cross-strait consultation platform.
Relevant persons in charge of the administrative organs of the authorities, the "Council of Agriculture", the Mainland Affairs Commission and other departments all stated that the matter was "reason for quarantine."
Taiwan leader Tsai Ing-wen and others claimed that this was "the mainland suppressing Taiwan's fruit farmers and cross-strait trade", and some even said that they would "sue to the WTO."
The different performance of the authorities aroused suspicion and criticism of Taiwanese public opinion.
The "Wang Pao" editorial pointed out that Tsai Ing-wen's statement was not to "solve the problem," but to fully understand the impact of the incident on Taiwan's agriculture, and was worried about the pressure of public opinion in order to protect himself.
Another Taiwan scholar pointed out that Taiwan currently bans the import of more than 600 mainland agricultural products, even if it is difficult to file a complaint to the WTO, this is the reason why the relevant economic departments are so "low-key".
Chen Chaoping, a senior Taiwan media person, noticed that the mainland was notified based on the "Agreement on Cooperation in Quarantine and Inspection of Agricultural Products Across the Taiwan Strait" signed before the two sides of the strait. , Make corrections, eliminate harmful organisms, and restart the pineapple when it enters the mainland.
Zhang Jing, a researcher at the Chinese Society for Strategic Studies, said that so far, the authorities’ various response measures have been full of political manipulation, indifferent to fruit farmers and social anxiety, and have not prescribed the right medicine to solve the problem.
The mainland is the largest export market for Taiwan’s agricultural products.
According to statistics from Taiwan, more than 95% of Taiwan's pineapples are exported to the mainland.
An editorial in the "Economic Daily" on the 3rd stated that since 2005, the mainland has declared to take care of Taiwanese farmers. Subject to quarantine and origin regulations, it unilaterally provides 15 agricultural products such as pineapples with zero tariffs, but Taiwan still prohibits many of them. Import of agricultural products from mainland China.
According to the "China Times" report, after the DPP came to power, the relevant departments of Taiwan’s "agricultural land transportation" project budgets and administrative support for epidemic prevention, inspections, subsidies, and routine investigations have been cancelled.
After losing the necessary self-protection mechanisms from local farmers' associations to customs, such as "expert epidemic prevention and customs quarantine", it is difficult for farmers to strictly control the quality of agricultural products based on their own capabilities.
An earlier editorial in Wang Pao pointed out that the "pineapple turmoil" reflects the fact that Taiwan's agricultural and fishery products need the mainland market. The authorities should not escalate this matter into a political turmoil, and should return to the existing cross-strait agreement to communicate and resolve.
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