Chapter 320 When it rains, it pours
After reading the new message, Li Qingye contacted Chen Jianxiong.
About two minutes later, Chen Jianxiong appeared on the video screen.
"Good afternoon, boss!"
"Jianxiong, have you dealt with the matter on Mada Island?"
Chen Jianxiong nodded: "With the support of the West Ceylon Ocean Branch, we have cleared out all forces within Mada Island. Currently, all tribes and armies on the island are under our control."
"Not bad! Thank you for your hard work."
Chen Jianxiong replied modestly: "It is thanks to the strong support and efforts of all my colleagues that we were able to take over Mada Island."
Li Qingye waved his hand: "I have read what you just reported. What do you think of the field department?"
"The food crisis in India is inevitable." Chen Jianxiong's expression was very serious.
Originally, the Sapiens Company was planning to use some means to reduce the rice and wheat production in India. However, they did not expect that before the Sapiens Company took any action, they would get into trouble themselves.
Two days ago, the Delhi Intelligence Station of the Field Department received a piece of intelligence. After careful investigation, it was finally confirmed that the intelligence was true.
The thing is that some pesticide manufacturers in India used "domestic" raw materials due to the skyrocketing prices of international raw materials and the depreciation of the Indian currency.
If they just use inferior raw materials, that would be fine, but the key is that their raw materials are directly Ganges water, which is then mixed with pigments.
Then there happened to be an outbreak of rice blast, and the fungicides sprayed had no effect at all.
It was not until rice blast broke out on a large scale in various places that we discovered that the problem was with the pesticides, but by then it was too late.
According to information stolen by the Department of Field Affairs and analysis through satellite remote sensing, it is estimated that of the 44 million hectares of rice planted in India, more than 43% are severely affected by rice blast, and rice production is expected to decrease by 20% this year.
What is 20%?
Perhaps many people don’t have a specific concept.
Based on last year's data, India produced 120 million tons of rice last year, and 20% is 24 million tons.
As luck would have it, due to the impact of the Kiev War this year and the North American soybean disease the year before, global food prices are still running high. India has exported a total of 14.7 million tons of rice and 8.92 million tons of wheat this year.
In other words, at this time, India's grain reserves were basically empty.
Now the rice production has suddenly decreased by 24 million tons, which will not only affect exports but also cause an internal food crisis.
To make matters worse, India has experienced continued high temperatures in the summer this year, and the wheat-producing areas of the Deccan Plateau have also suffered from a long period of high temperature and drought, resulting in a significant reduction in production.
"According to our intelligence and analysis by professionals from the Ministry of Agriculture, it is estimated that the summer grain production in Tianzhu will decrease by about 45 million tons this year."
When Li Qingye heard this number, his expression was also very solemn.
India has already lost the Assam region, and its grain production this year has dropped by 45 million tons, so its total grain output is probably only 220 million tons.
The population of India minus Assam's 55 million is about 1.32 billion.
With a population of 1.32 billion and 220 million tons of grain, the per capita grain output is only 166 kilograms, which is 67 kilograms less than the previous per capita grain output of 233 kilograms.
India has a free market model and is now facing an international financial crisis.
Li Qingye saw the crisis at a glance.
In fact, it is not just India. The two populous regions of Xiba and Dongba are also facing severe food crises at this time.
He quickly summoned Liu Zhifan, who was in charge of the Industry Department, through a video call.
"Zhifan, how is our grain production this year?"
When Liu Zhifan heard this question, he didn't have time to think about it. He called up the database and replied, "This year... the grain production in our various districts is pretty good. The rice production is 330 million tons, and the strategic reserve has 160 million tons of rice in reserve."
Li Qingye was also looking at the data.
Currently, the Southeast Asian regions under the control of the Homo Sapiens Company have developed a total of 930,000 square kilometers of arable land, or 1.395 billion mu.
Among them, rice is planted on 372 million mu, usually with two seasons a year, with an average yield of about 880 kilograms per mu.
There are also major agricultural crops such as corn, wheat, soybeans, peanuts, potatoes, sweet potatoes, cassava, rapeseed, sugarcane, oil palm, and bananas.
At the same time, Sapiens is also the world's largest producer of organic fertilizers, and the world's second largest producer of nitrogen fertilizers, phosphate fertilizers, and potash fertilizers.
"Currently our total grain production is 970 million tons, and our strategic reserves are 340 million tons."
Hearing this data, Li Qingye felt a little relieved.
After all, even if we add the 28 million people in Africa, the total population of Sapiens is only 648 million.
What's more, the Sapiens Company has another killer weapon, which is the supporting lightless agricultural factories in underground base cities in various places. If these production lines are operating at full capacity, food production can be multiplied several times.
Sapiens can feed all of humanity. This is no joke; it’s based on real facts.
"Zhifan, discuss with the Strategic Reserve Office and start a batch of lightless agricultural factories to increase our strategic inventory to 500 million tons."
Liu Zhifan asked, " Boss, is there something wrong internationally? Has the recent financial crisis affected the agricultural sector?"
"This is the information I just received. You can take a look at it first."
Li Qingye shared the intelligence from the Field Affairs Department.
Liu Zhifan browsed through it hurriedly and took a quick look. His face began to become serious. As one of the executives of the Intelligent Company, he naturally knew that the company had formulated plans to target the agriculture of various countries.
But he did not expect that the Indian would actually blow himself up.
But he frowned again: "Boss, will Tianzhu go to purchase food from Lucia?"
"Don't joke, where did India get the money? In order to restore their armaments, they exported a large amount of grain and spent 35 billion US dollars on armaments purchases." Li Qingye waved his hand.
Liu Zhifan changed his mind and reacted.
At that time, India had no money at all, and America's aid funds specifically required them to purchase weapons from the military-industrial complex.
The current food prices in Lucia are not cheap. After all, due to the impact of the North American soybean blight, the Far East region had to increase food purchases from other places on a large scale.
Previously, food purchases in the Far East were mainly from Brazil, Argentina, Honduras, Russia, and the Principality of Kiev.
Later, the Homo Sapiens Company suddenly appeared, and the Far East region stopped purchasing food from Hongsavadi (mainly because there was no foreign exchange in gold and yuan).
Coupled with the Kyiv War, food in the Kiev area was also affected.
Therefore, Russia's grain accounts for an increasingly high proportion of the Far East's grain imports, many of which are under long-term contracts.
Originally, Tianzhu and Lucia were competitors in terms of food.
If India wants to import grain from Russia now, it will definitely be severely ripped off.
Of course, India can also consider importing from Sapiens, but given the unclear relationship between Sapiens and Assam, India is unlikely to choose Sapiens.
However, Xiba and Dongba are very likely to seek help from Homo sapiens.
Therefore, Li Qingye began to ask the company's management to make preparations to avoid being in a hurry when the time comes.
The recent financial crisis is also intensifying as America is reaping the benefits.
The great powers such as Sapiens Company and America are all using their own unique means to harvest the world.
At this critical moment of the storm.
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