The China Post
Date: September 18, 2016
By: The China Post news staff
Agricultural loss caused by Typhoon Meranti on Taiwan have been estimated at nearly NT$800 million,
DPP Legislator Chen Ting-fei examines a tree felled by strong winds during Typhoon Meranti at a Tainan fruit farm, Saturday, Sept. 17, in this photo provided by the lawmaker’s office. Chen and another DPP legislator, Wang Ting-yu, urged the government to quickly extend help to farmers who suffered losses in the typhoon. (CNA)
a report said Saturday.
Meanwhile, the Air Force apologized for failing to provide meals to its servicemen dispatched to a village in the mountains of Hualien to help with prevention work against typhoon-triggered disasters last week.
Meranti, which ravaged Southern Taiwan on Tuesday, damaged over NT$460 million worth of crops in Kaohsiung alone, the United Evening News reported, citing the city’s Agriculture Bureau.
The city’s guava farms sustained heavy damage, with losses estimated at more than NT$200 million, the bureau said, adding that jujube farms were hit with losses estimated at over NT$90 million.
n Pingtung, aquaculture farms were also hit hard by Meranti. In some cases, power outages caused failures to life-support systems for grouper ponds, resulting in losses of more than NT$14 million from fish deaths, according to Fisheries Agency Deputy Director-General Haung Hung-yan. [FULL STORY]
