Increase in agricultural products with certification: One week of emergency pest control of Okinawa's black melon fly; storage issues also being addressed

It has been a week since the emergency control of the invasive pest "Siberian Melon Fly" began. At the auction on the 14th, the first day of the auction, there were few agricultural products with inspection certificates (labels), and there were also scenes where the price differed depending on whether or not there was a label, such as labeled bitter melon being sold for 9,000 yen per box (5 kg), which is three to four times the usual price.