Taitung fresh pork market to be suspended

The pork market in Taitung usually closes for a few days each summer ahead of the Ghost Festival in August when demand tends to rise sharply, but sales have never been suspended for more than seven days at a time.

However, this year there has been a shortage of pork because of high summer temperatures, which affect the survival rate of pigs, and because pig stocks were depleted by Typhoon Morakot last August, said Wu Tzi-ko, who is in charge of livestock production affairs in the Taitung County government.

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