Chapter 512 Production Reduction
April 23, Xinghe year 2.
The cold wave disaster in North America continues.
The southern hemisphere, which is about to enter winter, is also in a state of disasters.
Heavy rains are pouring down on the Pampas in South America. On April 22, some parts of the area received 744 mm of rainfall in one day, causing floods.
In the Kangaroo Country, also in the southern hemisphere, most parts of the country have not seen rain for 173 consecutive days, and many rivers and lakes have dried up.
In the southernmost region of Africa, Transvaal, winter has arrived early and snow has already begun in some places. For example, heavy snow has hit Cape Town, the southernmost region.
As for tropical regions, there have also been quite a few abnormal weather events, such as a general increase in precipitation in the Sahara Desert, drought in the Deccan Plateau, floods in West Pakistan, and typhoons in Southeast Asia.
The extreme weather around the world this year has had a serious impact on agricultural production in various regions.
Among the four major powers of the free world, Russia's winter has not yet completely passed, resulting in the inability to sow wheat in time.
The situation is even worse along the western coast of Europe because their latitude is actually similar to that of the northeastern region of Seris. Without the warm water vapor brought by the North Atlantic Current, the temperate oceanic climate on which they depend for survival has become "not warm".
Temperatures in Britain, Germany and northern France are now fluctuating wildly, making open-air farming difficult.
However, the Dutch took the opportunity to make a fortune by relying on large-scale greenhouse agriculture.
The prices of vegetables and fruits, which had been suppressed, skyrocketed again in less than a month.
Of course, vegetables and fruits are actually small things.
Because there is something more important, that is, the prices of bulk agricultural products have also entered a skyrocketing mode.
The prices of wheat, corn, rice, barley, beets, sunflower seeds, rapeseed, peanuts and soybeans have all risen to varying degrees.
As for why there are no sugar cane and palm trees, the answer is that the four major powers have lost their voice in the tropical region. In addition, after the free world and Homo sapiens completely decoupled, the two sides rarely traded in bulk commodities.
Currently, 92% of the world's sugarcane production and 100% of palm oil production are in the hands of Sapiens companies. Naturally, these two commodities will not appear in the futures markets of the free world.
If there were no such severe natural disasters, the agricultural production capacity of the free world would be very abundant.
The combined food production capacity of America and Russia is enough to feed 800 million to 900 million people, and forces such as the European Union can barely be self-sufficient.
Unfortunately, the weather is not good.
Extreme weather has directly hit agricultural production around the world.
Except for the Homo sapiens company that started indoor lightless agriculture to supplement production capacity, the agricultural production capacity of other forces has shrunk to varying degrees.
Some forces actually have to thank Sapiens . If Sapiens had not recruited more than 600 million employees locally, they would definitely have had a harder time. Even if they had inventory, they would not have been able to withstand the large-scale shutdown of agricultural production.
As for those small powers that still need to purchase large quantities of food from abroad, such as the Saudi Kingdom, Persia, and the Ottoman Empire in West Asia, or the Abd Wad Republic in North Africa.
They now have only one option.
That is to quickly hold on to the thigh of Homo sapiens father, otherwise you will be doomed.
If there are no vegetables and fruits, you can just bear with it.
Without food, it would be very fatal.
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Nimanya.
Although this place was also affected by the cold wave , open-air agricultural production decreased significantly.
However, the local branch of the Sapiens company started up a part of the underground indoor lightless farm as early as the beginning of the year. It uses the energy generated by the nuclear power plant to continuously produce a variety of vegetables and fruits, grain feed, sugar, cooking oil, meat, eggs and milk.
The prices in various cities in the Nimanya area have not fluctuated at all.
The local average monthly income is still 2,477 gold yuan, and the median income is around 1,950 gold yuan.
In the Balkan region where Nemanja is located, the average monthly income of the surrounding European Union members is around 1,500 to 1,800 euros.
It looks like the two revenue figures are similar.
If calculated based on purchasing power, 1 gold dollar is roughly equivalent to about 35 euros.
This is an extremely terrifying number.
Employees of the local Homo sapiens company in Nimanya traveled on the space shuttle for only 5 gold dollars per trip. This is the terrifying purchasing power of gold dollars at that time.
In order to facilitate daily transactions of gold and silver, the Sapiens Company had to launch a coin with a face value of 1 cent.
Inside the Harvest House supermarket in Bell City.
Simmons watched his wife Sophia picking and choosing on the shelves, and he suggested helplessly: "Sophia, you should ask your brother to come to Nimanya to find a job!"
"You know his character, right?" Sophia picked up a 3-kilogram box of premium purple tomatoes and glanced at the label. The price was 0.27 yuan per box.
"But relying on mail all day is not a solution. He doesn't eat vegetables and fruits, but your parents should eat them! The elderly don't get enough vitamins and their immunity is easily weakened." Simmons rolled his eyes speechlessly.
His eldest brother-in-law and his family lived in the Naples area of western Rome. He was a self-important fashion designer. As the job of a fashion designer was not easy nowadays, his income was barely enough to make ends meet.
The economic situation is even worse when there are two elderly people in the family.
Now the prices of vegetables and fruits in Western Rome have increased greatly.
Taking pizza, which was an indispensable meal for the Western Romans, as an example, the price of tomatoes was 8.5 euros per kilogram, onions were 5.3 euros per kilogram, and green and red peppers were 6.6 euros per kilogram.
Comparing these prices with the monthly income of local people is simply terrifying.
Many Western Romans could no longer afford vegetables and fruits.
Sophia mailed a box of fruits and vegetables back to her parents' hometown last week.
Many Europeans working in Nimanya and Suez have recently been mailing food back home.
This is also why Simmons suggested that Sofia bring her parents over.
After all, this kind of mailing is not convenient. Even though the exclusive air transport of the Sapiens Company is very cheap, the connecting Western Roman Postal Company charges a lot.
Fortunately, the European Community and Lucia reconciled two years ago and obtained a large amount of cheap natural gas, otherwise the situation would be even worse now.
Sophia picked out some long-lasting vegetables and fruits, asked the waiter to pack them up, and purchased an international air express service on her mobile phone, which would deliver them directly from the supermarket to the airport.
They came out of the supermarket.
A cold wind blew in Simmons' face, giving him goose bumps all over.
"This damn weather, is it going to snow?"
"It's almost May, it shouldn't be..." Before Sophia could finish her words, a few snowflakes slowly fell before her eyes.
Simmons shrugged. "It's already coming down."
"There's a holiday coming up in a few days, why don't we go to the Red Sea for a week-long vacation?" Sophia suggested.
"Vacation? I heard there are a lot of coastal cities on the Red Sea side, and I haven't been to the beach to sunbathe for a long time." Simmons nodded.
The two planned a vacation to the Red Sea to avoid the abnormal weather.
At this time, the temperature in the entire European region, especially in the mid- and high-latitude Eastern Europe and Northern Europe, dropped sharply, and many places entered winter again.
The zero-degree isotherm was pushed to central Nemanja and central France. Western Rome, blocked by the Alps, was slightly better.
