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| China Faces Food Shortage As Droughts, Flooding, And Pests Ruin Harvest |
| 2020-08-11 |
| [Zero] Chinese Vice Premier Hu Chunhua recently asked the governors of each province in China to make sure the sown areas of agricultural crops would not shrink and crop yield won’t be reduced this year. At a food security meeting held in Beijing on July 27, he warned that governors would be punished if they failed to uphold the promise, including with dismissals. And when Chinese leader Xi Jinping visited northeastern Jilin Province on July 22, he told the local government to treat grain production as a priority task. The top officials’ emphasis on food supplies raised questions about whether China is facing a severe food shortage this year. In early July, the government organ China National Grain and Oils Information Center released its estimates that the corn supply gap in the 2020-2021 fiscal year would be 25 million metric tons—more than double the previous estimated 12 million metric tons. On Aug. 5, the Center estimated that China would import six million metric tons of wheat in the 12 months from June 2020 to May 2021, which would be the highest amount in the past seven years. The Center said the wheat would likely come from France, Russia, Lithuania, and Kazakhstan. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #12 Are they still useful? |
| Posted by: gorb 2020-08-11 23:59 |
| #11 cable TV and internet free. Can't do it. They are big political donors. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2020-08-11 15:08 |
| #10 Better make good cable TV and internet free. |
| Posted by: gorb 2020-08-11 13:16 |
| #9 Not a Lockdown Quarantine with starvation, it's a Staycation with a diet! |
| Posted by: Frank G 2020-08-11 10:25 |
| #8 Not only that, food warehouses destroyed in Beirut and other places in the ME. Been drought as well with crop failures and Africa has had problems as well. 2021 will be the year of famine. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2020-08-11 10:13 |
| #7 crop yield won’t be reduced Didn't Stalin try this approach? How'd that work out? They eating the seed "rice" yet? Have they tried standing on the shore line and ordering the tide to recede yet? |
| Posted by: AlanC 2020-08-11 08:13 |
| #6 I think a COVID surcharge would be in order. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2020-08-11 06:12 |
| #5 Yes. The "predictors" said the US corn crop would suck this year. Not so much. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2020-08-11 06:10 |
| #4 They bought debt intending to blackmail the world. It's not working out that way. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2020-08-11 06:08 |
| #3 Not a problem as long as food is available for sale & China has money. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-08-11 05:33 |
| #2 They are so far ahead of us they are behind. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2020-08-11 05:22 |
| #1 ...That ol' Mandate of Heaven is lookin' a little thin these days... Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2020-08-11 05:22 |