Chapter 352: A vicious cycle...
January 28th.
India.
Delhi.
Damo, who has returned to the ground to work for several months, is now in his office.
He was listening to a report from the head of the Ministry of Agriculture.
"Data on Friday showed that as of January 28, a total of 22.43 million hectares of wheat were planted across the country, down 22% from 28.13 million hectares in the same period last year." The head of the Ministry of Agriculture had cold sweat on his forehead.
Dharma's face was very solemn: "Hasn't it been ordered that the northwestern states should ensure the wheat planting area? Why is the decline so great?"
"Gulu... Sorry, because of the global food price slump, the international wheat price has now fallen below US$275 per ton, and the rice price has also fallen below US$266 per ton."
Bodhidharma had a terrible headache.
After the southwest monsoon from June to September last year ended, India saw prolonged rainfall in October and November, improving soil moisture in central and northern India and helping to increase the planting area of wheat, the main winter crop.
Therefore, he ordered the northwestern states to increase the wheat planting area in order to increase India's total grain output and reduce its dependence on Homo sapiens food.
However, his wishful thinking could not defeat the free market and the profit-seeking mentality of a number of farmers and farmers.
Now, even if the Indian government gives a certain subsidy for planting one acre of wheat, after deducting the costs of fertilizers, pesticides and labor, if we follow the current international wheat quotation, the profit per ton of wheat is only US$11.
What's even more frightening is that Homo sapiens has planned to lower the price of mixed flour in February to 120 gold yuan per ton, equivalent to 240 US dollars per ton.
If the price is at this level, growing wheat will not be profitable and people will have to harvest it to make feed or eat it themselves.
Small farmers may be able to feed themselves, but how can farmers who own dozens of hectares of farmland feed themselves?
Of course, there is another way, that is, Tianzhu itself pays for the wheat at a high price.
But when Bodhidharma looked at the newly released economic data for the past 22 years, which showed a series of deficits, as well as 83.7 billion US dollars borrowed from America and 56.6 billion gold yuan from Homo sapiens, there was only helplessness on his face.
Over the past six months , Homo sapiens' cheap food has hit the entire Indian market like crazy, and at the same time, Homo sapiens has raised the purchase price of various cash crops.
Many farmers simply converted their wheat, rice and corn fields to grow cash crops such as tea, jute, turmeric, galangal, ginger, garlic, onions, black pepper, star anise, green onions and fruits.
Obviously, this was a deliberate guidance by Homo sapiens, who included India's rice, wheat, soybeans, sugarcane, peanuts and other things that can be used as staple foods in the scope of low-price dumping.
At the same time, designated cash crops are purchased at high prices .
The wheat planting area in India alone has decreased by more than six million hectares this year, and the wheat production is expected to decrease by 30 million tons this year.
If it is not stopped, the rice planting area in June this year is expected to be significantly reduced.
The original grain output was only 280 million tons (excluding the Assam region). Now a large part of the planting area of wheat and corn has been taken away by cash crops. Once the rice planting area is also reduced, it is estimated that there will be a huge gap in the total grain output this year.
Damn it! Damo clenched his fists. He found that Tianzhu had now fallen into the rhythm of the wise man.
In order to fill last year's food gap, they had to import 30 to 50 million tons of food. India had no money to buy it, so it had to develop its economy, which led them to open their market to Homo sapiens.
In this way, India will have no way to use anti-dumping and increased tariffs to protect its domestic grain industry.
Homo sapiens further took advantage of low food prices and increased the purchase price of cash crops to discourage Indian farmers and households from growing food crops, thereby increasing the proportion of cash crops planted.
This will lead to a decline in India's grain production this year, and a huge food gap will still exist.
No, the food gap will even continue to widen.
But what could he do now? Deny Homo sapiens food?
Don't joke. ABCD is now losing ground in the international grain market. Even if the Hilltop City Council increases its support, there is still no way to improve ABCD's operating difficulties.
After all, international food prices are there.
Homo sapiens are now developing high-yield sea rice in Egypt. It is expected that the first phase of agricultural area transformation in Egypt's Red Sea Province will be completed this year, with plans to plant 20,000 square kilometers of sea rice, with an annual output of 72 million tons.
Similarly, Homo sapiens will also see a certain degree of increase in production in agricultural areas across Southeast Asia, Assam, Ceylon and Mada Island.
Especially in Assam, due to the temporary ceasefire agreement reached with India, the rice production in Assam this year will reach 80 to 90 million tons.
According to this trend, the total grain output of Sapiens in 23 years will reach an unprecedented 920 million tons.
Even if every Homo sapiens is a big eater, including the consumption of feed, the average per capita consumption is only 600 to 700 kilograms of food, and a population of more than 800 million will only consume 520 million tons of food.
The remaining 400 million tons of grain will pour into the international market.
Bodhidharma is not a fool. He knows that under such circumstances, global food prices will definitely remain low for a long time, and other food exporting countries will greatly reduce their interest in growing food crops.
In fact, this has been America’s previous strategy. They frantically subsidize their domestic food planting industry, then suppress other food exporting countries, and finally use ABCD to control the agriculture of other food producing countries.
Brazil is a typical example, whose agriculture is basically controlled by ABCD.
But now ABCD has also met its opponent.
Homo sapiens is different from the opponents ABCD has encountered in the past. In several confrontations between the two sides, ABCD always ended up suffering losses.
The reason why ABCD suffered a crushing defeat was mainly because Homo sapiens had its own system, which gave them advantages over ABCD in terms of seeds, pesticides and fertilizers, agricultural machinery, labor costs, warehousing and transportation, agricultural land, and agricultural technology.
Now, Homo sapiens deliberately engages in price wars, which is to give someone a taste of their own medicine.
Once we fall into the rhythm of Homo sapiens, the consequences will be very serious.
This is the situation in India today.
Its domestic food production has dropped significantly, but the population, excluding the 55 million in Assam, is still 1.345 billion. Such a large population requires enormous amounts of food.
After tasting the sweetness of growing cash crops, those farmers and farmers no longer care about food security. Making money is the kingly thing, and money can buy everything.
The only way for India to get rid of its dependence on Homo sapiens for food is to find another alternative supplier and make good food reserves.
The problem is, both of these are hard to do.
Because many compradors who cooperated with Homo sapiens opened a large number of supermarkets to help Homo sapiens dump food and industrial products.
Farmers and farmers can also obtain exclusive coupons for Homo sapiens and purchase cheap goods and food at these comprador supermarkets.
However, as for the grain purchased by the Indian government, the Homo sapiens dragged their feet and deliberately found excuses not to sell it, causing the Indian government's strategic reserve grain stocks to remain at a low level.
In his heart, Damo really wanted to kill those compradors and farmers, but when he thought about the number of these people and their complicated network of relationships, he suddenly became dejected.
It is obvious that the layout of Homo sapiens in India has begun to show results.
In the future, the grain production in India will only decrease. If Bodhidharma becomes disobedient one day, we can simply raise the price of grain.
