News Brief: COA says food supplies good as Lunar New Year approaches

 

with the Lunar New Year holidays about to start, the Council of Agriculture says that it has helped to harmonize supplies of key products reaching wholesale markets, Radio Taiwan International reports today (full Chinese-language article here). 

The COA forecast that in the 5 days leading up to New Year, the supply of vegetables, fruit, fish and meat as well as flowers would be between 25 percent and 116 percent higher than normal, so the public did not have to panic buy.