Weeks after Typhoon Gaemi hit Taiwan, food prices have yet to go down.
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00:00It's slim pickings at this outdoor vegetable market.
00:03What corn there is, is more than one and a half times more expensive than it was just a few weeks ago.
00:08Typhoon Gemi wrecked farmers' yields at a critical time.
00:11It's just a month to go until Taiwan gobbles up masses of food over the mid-autumn festival.
00:16Vendors here say stretched supplies mean there's nothing they can do.
00:30And it's not just farmers' markets where food is harder to come by.
00:33The storm also devastated seafood producers.
00:36This pile of oysters is just a fraction of how big it might have been
00:39had the intense wind and rain not hit the country's coastline.
00:52This pile of clam shells tells a similar story.
00:55The southwest was hit particularly hard,
00:57leaving seafood producers like this one waiting for local officials to assess their losses
01:01and perhaps give them help.
01:17But while producers may get some compensation,
01:19for consumers, higher prices are going to be the reality for some time to come.
01:24James Lin and John Van Triest for Taiwan Plus.