Post by franklin on Jun 15, 2010 17:57:00 GMT -5
[Edit] Notice how the article says the glut discourages investment. This is important because the same thing happens to countries, for example in Africa, that are having trouble boosting food productions. They don't get investment because the price is low
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It is not just subsidized exports from the United States and European Union that is causing problems, for example countries around the world were encouraged to grow bananas so tensions rose between South America, the Caribbean and Africa. This of course leaves under developed countries divided against each other because they feel threatened by each other by trade.
On the same note increased grain exports from Russia will affect people all over the world and will serve the purposes of the New World Order folks, assuming that the plan of the nameless and undefined New World Order is to ruin the livelihoods of millions of farmers in the "3rd world"
Perhaps the plan is to double exports, and then drive Brazilian, Argentina ect. agriculture out of business. And then invade Russia. By this time with the farmer suicides in India and the huge population of China both countries might be dependent on food from the United States and European Union
I emphasized the Middle East in bold, but also notice how Russia has so much grain they want to get rid of it.
"Russia’s bumper grain harvest raises fears of glut" June 7, 2010
blogs.ft.com/beyond-brics/2010/06/07/russias-bumper-grain-harvest-raises-fears-of-glut/
[A good harvest will also be a mixed blessing for Russian farmers facing a crisis amid plenty as domestic grain prices fall.
Russia is already one of the world’s top wheat exporters supplying the big cereal importers in North Africa and the Middle East. But the Kremlin sees greater opportunities ahead and has set a target to double exports in the coming 15 years....
....After gathering bumper harvests for two years, Russia is seeing a grain glut that is depressing domestic prices and discouraging investment. Its silos are still crammed with last year’s crops, adding to pressure to boost exports.
“The situation is not attractive. It does not bring any happiness to farmers,” said Arkady Zlochevsky, the president of the Russian Grain Union
The Grain Union appealed to the government last week to subsidise grain exports for the first time to allow farmers to compete more aggressively on global markets. “We plan to help farmers live through these difficult times. [Export subsidies] will enable us to strengthen our position on world markets,” he said.
Agricultural analysts said it made no sense for Russia to subsidise exports and strive to be big for big’s sake.
“It does not matter who is the biggest or second biggest exporter, it matters who is the most profitable,” said Andrey Sizov, managing director of Sovecon, a Moscow-based agriculture consultancy.
Government funds would be better spent on building new grain processing industries to boost Russian production of food and livestock.
But Mr Zlochevsky said the Kremlin would stand by its plan to increase wheat exports through thick and thin. “The market always swings We are used to it. It is nothing new,” he said.
In a bid to diversify into Asian markets, Russia plans to build a grain export terminal on its Pacific coast and has entered a partnership with Japanese trading house to seek new buyers.]
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It is not just subsidized exports from the United States and European Union that is causing problems, for example countries around the world were encouraged to grow bananas so tensions rose between South America, the Caribbean and Africa. This of course leaves under developed countries divided against each other because they feel threatened by each other by trade.
On the same note increased grain exports from Russia will affect people all over the world and will serve the purposes of the New World Order folks, assuming that the plan of the nameless and undefined New World Order is to ruin the livelihoods of millions of farmers in the "3rd world"
Perhaps the plan is to double exports, and then drive Brazilian, Argentina ect. agriculture out of business. And then invade Russia. By this time with the farmer suicides in India and the huge population of China both countries might be dependent on food from the United States and European Union
I emphasized the Middle East in bold, but also notice how Russia has so much grain they want to get rid of it.
"Russia’s bumper grain harvest raises fears of glut" June 7, 2010
blogs.ft.com/beyond-brics/2010/06/07/russias-bumper-grain-harvest-raises-fears-of-glut/
[A good harvest will also be a mixed blessing for Russian farmers facing a crisis amid plenty as domestic grain prices fall.
Russia is already one of the world’s top wheat exporters supplying the big cereal importers in North Africa and the Middle East. But the Kremlin sees greater opportunities ahead and has set a target to double exports in the coming 15 years....
....After gathering bumper harvests for two years, Russia is seeing a grain glut that is depressing domestic prices and discouraging investment. Its silos are still crammed with last year’s crops, adding to pressure to boost exports.
“The situation is not attractive. It does not bring any happiness to farmers,” said Arkady Zlochevsky, the president of the Russian Grain Union
The Grain Union appealed to the government last week to subsidise grain exports for the first time to allow farmers to compete more aggressively on global markets. “We plan to help farmers live through these difficult times. [Export subsidies] will enable us to strengthen our position on world markets,” he said.
Agricultural analysts said it made no sense for Russia to subsidise exports and strive to be big for big’s sake.
“It does not matter who is the biggest or second biggest exporter, it matters who is the most profitable,” said Andrey Sizov, managing director of Sovecon, a Moscow-based agriculture consultancy.
Government funds would be better spent on building new grain processing industries to boost Russian production of food and livestock.
But Mr Zlochevsky said the Kremlin would stand by its plan to increase wheat exports through thick and thin. “The market always swings We are used to it. It is nothing new,” he said.
In a bid to diversify into Asian markets, Russia plans to build a grain export terminal on its Pacific coast and has entered a partnership with Japanese trading house to seek new buyers.]