annotation4 DPP mistakes the price of banana in their handbills, banana farmers become the victim

Source:綠文宣蕉價低3倍 蕉農被害慘(2011/11/28) by 邱君萍 許文男報導
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This news talks about a mistake makes by Democratic Progressive Party (DPP). DPP recently announced an advertisement which was focus on the price of Taiwan’s native fruit. In this advertisement, DPP told people that the price of banana was only NT$2 pre kilogram. However, after reporter’s investigated, the real price of banana was three times higher then DPP’s handbill had written. Banana famers emphasized that the price of NT$2 pre kilogram was the price in June. After government had adopted price adjustment measures and long-term monitoring mechanisms to help farmers deal with a surplus production of bananas; the problem about banana’s low price had temporary been solved. Today’s price in the market was at last NT$15 pre kilogram. They are very worried that the price of banana will be affected by this advertisement. One of the banana famers told the reporter that DPP could not used the price of inferior bananas as the selling price of the high- grade one. This misunderstanding might bring some problems to banana’s price, and finally, innocent banana famers would be the victim of this unreal advertisement.

     Power groups’ misunderstanding will cause the influence to the people in lower stander. Famers work so hard to cultivate fruit; however they could not decide the price by themselves. Famer is the person who knows fruit the most. They cultivate each kind of produces by their own hand and can discriminate the stander of the fruit. They should be the person who has right to decide the price of their painstaking care, but actually, they are just become the slave under the power group. Middlemen, as power group decide the price of famers’ products. They buy in famers product by low price in large amount, that price may not compare with the effort and prime cost that famers put in their cultivation. Famers became cheep slave to help middlemen earned money by their hard working.

In this news, the price that famer sell to the middlemen was NT$6 pre kilogram. However, the price sells to the consumer in the market was NT$15 pre kilogram. Although government had try to raise the price from NT$2 to NT$6 pre kilogram, famers still could not get benefit from that ‘‘NT$15’’. Middlemen and the retail store got most of the benefit from the product; however, the hardest character could not receive the reward they should receive. DPP here misunderstanding the price of banana and pronounce a wrong advertisement. DPP as another kind of power group and express the wrong information to people may help middlemen to exploit the banana famers. People receive the low price in their knowledge and will want to buy the banana by that low price. If middlemen try to satisfy costumer’s exception, they most lower their prime cost by buying banana from famers in bad price. This exploit force the famers to sells their products in bad price and can not earn enough money to prepare for their next cultivation. Power group’s exploit and misunderstand will finally cause the innocent farmers to be the victim.