Friday, July 11, 2025

It is not a good time to be joyful after Typhoon Danas hits Taiwan badly

The southern part of Taiwan was hit hard by typhoon Danas, especially Tainan and Chiayi. After Typhoon Danas left Taiwan on 7/7/2025, several districts and places are still closed for work and classes. Tainan and Chiayi have not yet fully restored power, and Taipower is still working hard to repair them. There are still many damaged houses that need to be repaired, and there are still many branches on the roadside that have not been removed. Farmers and fishermen in Yunlin, Chiayi, and Tainan are suffering greatly; they need to clean up their farmlands and fish ponds.  The damage related to solar photovoltaic panels has not been dealt with. There are a lot of things to do.

Danas颱風在7/7/2025 離開臺灣後,南部災情慘重,尤其是臺南嘉義更是淒慘,到今天還有許多地方停班停課。現在臺南嘉義都還沒有完全恢復電力、台電還在努力搶修中、還有一堆吹壞的民宅、路邊還有不少樹枝都沒時間收、雲嘉南的農民漁民在大大受苦中、太陽能光電板相關的損害也還沒處理好,千頭萬緒,還有一堆待辦事項尚未完成。


It seems that the Palace Museum is determined to hold a light and water dance and drone show on 7/12/2025. I don't think this can comfort people. If our homes, crops, fruit trees, and fish ponds are destroyed, how can we still have the mood to watch this performance? I just think it's similar to tell starving poor people "Why not eat meat ball".

After the Palace Museum holds the event tomorrow, the people dislike DDP and Taiwan will definitely say that the DPP government is completely ignorant of the suffering of the people and is still singing and dancing and pretending that everything is fine. It's really disappointing.

看起來故宮是鐵了心要辦活動,我不覺得這個能撫慰身心,如果家園都被毁了,農作物也毁了,怎麼還有心情看這個,只覺得是 "何不食肉糜"、"商女不知亡國恨,隔江猶唱後庭花"。

明天故宮辦了活動後,酸民一定會說民進黨政府完全不知民間疾苦,還在那裏歌舞昇平,粉飾太平。真是令人太失望了。

https://www.cna.com.tw/news/acul/202507110102.aspx
https://south.npm.gov.tw/ActivityInfoDetailC003210.aspx?Cond=43cb5977-be50-482b-be96-98687ccbd19d&appname=ActivityInfo3211&State=1

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Wednesday, July 9, 2025

Typhoon Danas and Agricultural Insurance

Typhoon Danas, which went through the Taiwan Strait and hit Chiayi and Tainan badly, caused heavy damage to Chiayi and Tainan's agriculture. For agricultural damage caused by natural disasters, the government will assess the severity of agricultural damage based on the "Agricultural Disaster Relief Measures" and decide whether to initiate "natural disaster relief". However, the entire assessment process is time-consuming and laborious, requiring a lot of manpower and time to conduct investigations and assessments, which is often not efficient to meet urgent needs. Let's take a look at Taiwan's agricultural insurance:

這次穿過台灣海峽從嘉南上路的Danas丹娜絲颱風對嘉南農業造成重創。天災造成的農業損害,政府一項會依據《農業災害救助辦法》,評估特定區域的農損嚴重程度,決定是否啟動「天災救助」,但是整個評估過程耗時費力,需要大量的人力及時間來進行調查及評估,常常緩不濟急讓我們看一下臺灣的農業保險:

Promote agricultural insurance (Agricultural Finance Agency of the Ministry of Agriculture)
推動農業保險(農業部農業金融署,2024) (https://www.afna.gov.tw/view.php?theme=web_structure&id=208)

Agricultural Industry Insurance (Agricultural Food Administration, Ministry of Agriculture)
農產業保險(農業部農糧署,6/27/2025) (https://www.afa.gov.tw/cht/index.php?code=list&ids=277)

Agricultural insurance protects farmers (Taiwan Agricultural Story Museum)
農業保險 守護農民(臺灣農業故事館,12/10/2021) (https://theme.moa.gov.tw/theme_data.php?theme=storyboard_showcase&id=6)

丹娜絲颱風的相關報導 (https://www.newsmarket.com.tw/blog/223868/)

凱米颱風看問題》別讓農民成為氣候難民,台灣農業保險內容、利弊一次看 (上下游,7/28/2024) (https://www.newsmarket.com.tw/blog/208953/):內文有許多比較表單,值得看一下。


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