This is what lies behind the strange phenomenon of shoppers having to pay prices many times higher than those paid to the farmers. Although at each crisis in which the price of some item of produce skyrockets, the supervisory authority responds by releasing emergency stocks from its public stockpile or by allowing special imports, this help always comes too late.
而每次發生飆漲危機後，主管單位縱使緊急辦理釋出庫存公糧或是專案進口，時機上仍舊緩不濟急，這次蒜頭就是如此。