Bodhidharma, who has returned to work on the ground for several months, is currently in his office.
He was listening to the report from the head of the Ministry of Agriculture.
"Friday's data showed that as of January 28, a total of 22.43 million hectares of wheat had been sown in various regions, a decrease of 22% from 28.13 million hectares in the same period last year." The person in charge of the Ministry of Agriculture broke out in cold sweat on his forehead.
Bodhidharma's face was very solemn: "Hasn't an order been issued to let the northwest states ensure the wheat planting area? Why has the decline been so large?"
"Gulu... I'm sorry, because global food prices have plummeted, international wheat prices have now fallen below $275 per ton, and rice has also fallen below $266 per ton."
Bodhidharma had a terrible headache.
Its domestic food production has dropped significantly, and after excluding the 55 million people in Assam, there are still 1.345 billion people. Such a huge population needs to consume a huge amount of food.
Homo sapiens further took advantage of low food prices and increased the purchase price of cash crops to discourage farmers and farmers in Tianzhu from planting food crops and increased the proportion of cash crops planted.
According to this trend, Homo sapiens' total grain output in 2023 will reach an unprecedented 920 million tons.
Therefore, he ordered to urge the northwest states to increase wheat planting area to increase Tianzhu's total grain output and reduce dependence on Homo sapiens food.
At the same time, designated cash crops were purchased at high prices.
As a result, Tianzhu has no way to use anti-dumping and increased tariffs to protect its domestic grain industry.
The main reason why ABCD failed miserably is that Homo sapiens has its own system, which has advantages over ABCD in terms of seeds, pesticides and fertilizers, agricultural machinery, labor costs, warehousing and transportation, agricultural land, and agricultural technology.
However, his wishful thinking is no match for the free market and the profit-seeking mentality of many farmers and farmers.
Brazil is a typical example. Its agriculture is basically controlled by ABCD.
Small farmers may be able to eat by themselves, but how can farmers with dozens of hectares of farmland eat by themselves?
The only way for Tianzhu to get rid of its dependence on Homo sapiens food is to find another alternative supplier and prepare food reserves at the same time.
Even if all Homo sapiens companies are big eaters, including the consumption of feed, the average per capita consumption is 600 to 700 kilograms of grain, and a population of more than 800 million will consume 520 million tons of grain.
Planting an acre of wheat now, even if Tianzhu officials provide certain subsidies, but excluding fertilizers, pesticides and labor costs, if the current international wheat quotation is used, the profit per ton of wheat is only 11 US dollars.
Homo sapiens has now developed high-yield seawater rice in Egypt. It is expected to complete the first phase of agricultural area transformation in Egypt's Red Sea Province this year. It is planned to plant 20,000 square kilometers of seawater rice, with an annual output of 72 million tons.
Because many compradors who cooperate with Homo sapiens have opened a large number of supermarkets to help Homo sapiens dump food and industrial products.
The even scarier thing is that Homo sapiens has planned to lower the price of prepared flour in February to 120 gold dollars per ton, which is equivalent to 240 US dollars per ton.
Of course, there is another way, which is for Tianzhu to pay for wheat at a high price.
Originally, grain output was only 280 million tons (excluding Assam). Now cash crops have taken away a large part of the planting area of wheat and corn. Once the planting area of rice also decreases, the total grain output this year is estimated to be another 280 million tons.
A huge gap appears.
But Bodhidharma looked at the newly released economic data for 2022, which showed a series of deficits, as well as US$83.7 billion borrowed from America and US$56.6 billion from Homo sapiens. He only had helplessness on his face.
After the southwest monsoon ended from June to September last year, Tianzhu experienced long-term rainfall in October and November, which increased soil moisture in the central and northern parts of the country and helped increase the planting area of wheat, the main winter crop.
In fact, this has been America's strategy before. They wildly subsidized the local food growing industry, then suppressed other food exporting countries, and finally used ABCD to control the agriculture of other food producing countries.
Similarly, Homo sapiens will increase production to a certain extent in agricultural areas in Southeast Asia, Assam, Ceylon, and Mada Island.
Obviously, this is the deliberate guidance of Homo sapiens to include Tianzhu's rice, wheat, soybeans, sugar cane, peanuts and other things that can be used as staple foods in the scope of low-price dumping.
Bodhidharma is not a fool. He knows that in this case, global food prices will definitely remain depressed for a long time, and other food exporting countries will be significantly less interested in growing food crops.
If this price is followed, it will be unprofitable to grow wheat, and you will have to pull it to make feed or eat it yourself.
This will lead to a decline in Tianzhu's grain output this year, and a huge grain gap still exists.
The problem is, both of these are hard to do.
After all, the international food prices are there.
In order to fill last year's food gap, it was necessary to import 30 to 50 million tons of food. Tianzhu did not have the money to buy it, so it had to develop its economy, which led them to open the market to Homo sapiens.
In the past six months, Homo sapiens' cheap food has been hitting the entire Tianzhu market like crazy, and at the same time, Homo sapiens has raised the purchase prices of various cash crops.
As for the grain officially purchased by Tianzhu, Homo sapiens has been procrastinating and deliberately found excuses not to sell it, leaving Tianzhu's official strategic reserve grain inventory at a low level.
Once you fall into the rhythm of Homo sapiens, the consequences will be very serious.
But what can he do now? Refuse food from Homo sapiens?
Don't be kidding, now ABCD has been losing ground in the international grain market. Even if the City on the Hill Council increases its support, there is still no way to improve ABCD's operating difficulties.
Farmers and farmers can also obtain exclusive coupons for Homo sapiens, and go to these comprador supermarkets to buy cheap goods and food.
Nowadays, Homo sapiens deliberately engages in price wars, which is to repay others with their own methods.
Many farmers directly replant wheat, rice, and corn fields with cash crops, such as tea, jute, turmeric, galangal, ginger, garlic, onions, black pepper, star anise, green onions, and fruits.
If it is not stopped, the rice sown area in June this year is expected to be significantly reduced.
No, the food gap will even continue to widen.
After those farmers and farmers tasted the sweetness of growing cash crops, they didn't care about food security. The only thing they could do was earn gold dollars. Gold dollars can buy everything.
The wheat planting area alone in Tianzhu has decreased by more than 6 million hectares this year, and wheat production is expected to decrease by 30 million tons this year.
The remaining 400 million tons of grain will be poured into the international market.
Homo sapiens is different from the opponents ABCD has encountered in the past. In several confrontations between the two sides, ABCD always ended up at a disadvantage.
Damn it! Bodhidharma clenched his fists, and he found that Tianzhu had now fallen into the rhythm of Homo sapiens.
Especially in Assam, due to the temporary armistice agreement reached with Tianzhu, the rice production in Assam this year will reach 80 to 90 million tons.
This is what Tianzhu is like now.
But now ABCD has also met its opponent.
Bodhidharma really wanted to kill the compradors and farmers in his heart, but when he thought about the number of these people and the intricate network of relationships, he suddenly became dejected.
Obviously, Homo sapiens' layout in Tianzhu has begun to bear fruit.
In the future, Tianzhu's local grain production will only become less and less. If one day Bodhidharma disobeys, he can just raise the price of grain.
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