The Taiwanese food giant continues to buy more locally-produced fruit to offset oversupply and help farmers
Taiwan News
Date: 2018/07/05
By: Sophia Yang, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
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TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – As Taiwanese farmers have suffered from banana, pineapple and pitaya gluts this summer, Taiwanese food giant I-Mei Foods announced this year’s third round of fresh fruit procurement on Thursday.
The company said it is planning to purchase 250 tons of top-graded red-fleshed pitaya, also known as “fire dragon fruit” (火龍果) in the country, at the price of NT$33 (US$1.08) per kilogram in box.
As of July 5, the company procured 200 tons of banana from local growers.
The company’s food safety lab is set to develop new pitaya products to add value to the fruit, and to tackle the oversupply problem. [FULL STORY]