Ma Ying-jeou's mistake made 26 tons of Taiwanese deer antler velvet sold out as the best spokesperson

Ma Ying-jeou's mistake made 26 tons of Taiwanese deer antler velvet sold out, becoming the best spokesperson. (Source: Taiwan's Lianhe Pao)

According to Taiwan's Lianhe Pao, in March 2014, former Taiwan leader Ma Ying-jeou, when referring to the cross-strait "service trade agreement" checkpoint, did not notice for a while that deer antler velvet is the hair of deer ears, so that Taiwan's deer antler velvet was sold out in an instant. The inquiry and popularity of deer antler velvet became popular overnight, making Ma Yingjiu the best spokesperson for deer antler velvet for a time.

Wen Zhichong, chairman of the Taiwan Deer Breeding Association, said that at that time, the association's inquiry telephone could not be answered, and the phone in the industry's home did not stop ringing, as if all of a sudden, the news media continued to broadcast, and the whole Taiwan people knew about the deer antler products. Since deer antler velvet had to be harvested every year, 26 tons a year were produced, but that year, it did increase in popularity and soon sold out.

According to the statistics of Taiwan's "Agricultural Committee", there are about 20,000 deer in Taiwan, a total of 618 households, and the annual output of deer antler velvet is about 26 tons; every year from April to June is the season of deer antler picking, and it is necessary to regularly trim the antler velvet every year, so as to avoid deer from grinding the wall with deer antlers and causing wounds, sambar deer will be injured, and it will be easy to infect diseases. (Taiwan Network Gao Xu)