Price To Pay For Flour Price Increase ?
January 8th, 2008 at 4:26 pm by jiyan (climate change, environment, flour price, food production, general, global warming, meat eater, natural resource, vegetarian diet, water scarcity, wheat production)
You will heard the cry of the people around the coffee shop that flour price increase again in Malaysia, hence the price of roti canai, noodles, cake and bread, etc will follow to increase. The government, the politician only tell you the worldwide price of wheat increase, do they tell you that global crop production drops due to global warming, draught in Australia and Canada causing lower crop production ?
Australia, the world’s second-largest wheat exporter, may export as low as 15 million tons compare with estimated 22.5 million tons. Worldwide wheat production is estimated 2.17 billion bushels, compared to 21 billion bushels seven years ago.
Another reason for wheat crop reduce due to farmers in the US shift their fields from wheat to corn. The price of corn increase 53% due to demand for corn as feedstock and fuel grade ethanol. Will food production be able to cope with food consumption ?
Other than corn, US farmers also switch to Barley as Barley prices in Canada, price gained 41 percent in the past year on increased demand for animal feed and for brewing beer. Severe barley shortages faced in Germany as harvest in Germany diminished by one third due to the long rainless period last summer followed by heavy rains. 1
One day, the world food price is going to be gaining higher and higher than today that poor countries won’t be able to afford them.
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Fadly said,
January 21st, 2008 at 6:43 am
hi there! How are you today? i also agree with this article.. as you can see our river now is decreasing in number.. in my village also i see 2 of 4 river is getting smaller and shallow.. something should be done rite!
anyway keep up this good work! hope can read new article!
hv nice day!
Jean Girard said,
March 1st, 2010 at 8:10 pm
“Another reason for wheat crop reduce due to farmers in the US shift their fields from wheat to corn. The price of corn increase 53% due to demand for corn as feedstock and fuel grade ethanol. Will food production be able to cope with food consumption ?”
There is a very interesting article in this publication you must read. Just email them asking for their a newsletter subscriptionFlour Export Article
They deal with the very issue of food production versus consumption in the effort of making a better world.
Cheers,
JG