Focus Taiwan
Date: 2016/07/11
By: Chen Cheng-wei and Romulo Huang
Taipei, July 11 (CNA) Taiwan’s agricultural losses from Typhoon Nepartak rose to an estimated
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NT$1.07 billion (US$33.4 million), the Council of Agriculture (COA) said Monday.
Citing figures valid as of 5 p.m. that day, the COA said the eastern county of Taitung suffered the biggest agricultural losses, estimated at NT$731.39 million or 73 percent of the total.
It was followed by the southern county of Pingtung with NT$127.03 million or 13 percent of the total losses, and Kaohsiung with NT$108.77 million or 11 percent of the total.
Losses in agricultural produce were estimated at NT$838.21 million, with 9,963 hectares of crops affected. [FULL STORY]