The China Post
Date: September 17, 2016
By: CNA
TAIPEI–Taiwan suffered at least NT$685 million (US$21.61 million) in agricultural
Fallen fruits are seen at a farm in Kaohsiung on Friday, Sept. 16.
losses from Typhoon Meranti, which battered southern Taiwan earlier this week, according to the latest estimate released by the Council of Agriculture (COA) on Friday.
The figure rose from an earlier estimate of almost NT$600 million in losses released by the COA on Thursday.
Though the eye of the storm did not make landfall on Taiwan, passing through the Bashi Channel south of the island, Meranti’s powerful winds and heavy rains pounded southern Taiwan on Wednesday, leaving one person dead and an additional 51 injured.
It also wreaked havoc with the region’s farms. The COA said in its latest update that Kaohsiung’s farmers were hardest hit by the storm, suffering at least NT$464 million in losses, or 68 percent of the national total. [FULL STORY]