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| Thread ID: 89553 | 2008-05-03 23:54:00 | What is the reason for the rise in the price of rice | lightfoot (39) | PC World Chat |
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| 665622 | 2008-05-03 23:54:00 | There are no major desaster to Thailand the major rice exporter. What pumps up the price. It can't be simply supply and demand? | lightfoot (39) | ||
| 665623 | 2008-05-04 02:07:00 | i was told the big jump in price is becasue some of the big rice growers are not growing rice anymore....they are growing maize for bio fuel production. also that due to the better $$ they get for exporting what rice they do grow the locals in those countries are running out of rice, which is not good if thats a big part of the local diet. one up side of all this bio fuel vers food supply is hopefully people will reliase how important food is, that its dosn't just come from a supermarket and food growers will actually starting getting paid what the food is worth. |
tweak'e (69) | ||
| 665624 | 2008-05-04 02:59:00 | It's because all those 1.3 b Chinese people in China and millions of other Chinese origin from other parts of the world eat up all the rice. :D If there isn't any Chinese and Indians in this world, there won't be any issues with rice.:D |
bk T (215) | ||
| 665625 | 2008-05-04 03:03:00 | Also transport costs - higher oil prices flow on to everything else that needs transporting. | Erayd (23) | ||
| 665626 | 2008-05-04 03:51:00 | bletch and tweak'e are both right and each answer is intertwined. The rush to convert from food crops to bio fuel crops is serious. We might have our fuel, but do we want a world famine too? |
Marnie (4574) | ||
| 665627 | 2008-05-04 06:22:00 | If there isn't any Chinese and Indians in this world, there won't be any issues with rice . :D No no no no no . . . . I like rice too . . so I guess I am pushing the rice market too? Had Mexican food at a restaurant last night . . . for purely medicinal purposes to try to burn out my clogged sinuses . . . . . . . and I was surcharged $1 for a scoop of rice on the plate . Imagine! |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 665628 | 2008-05-04 06:22:00 | It's because all those 1 . 3 b Chinese people in China and millions of other Chinese origin from other parts of the world eat up all the rice . If there isn't any Chinese and Indians in this world, there won't be any issues with rice . :D Even though your comment bk is presumably meant to be cynical (though I might be giving you the benefit of the doubt :) ) you are probably right . Someone on National Radio (which Mrs Misty listens to) said that he/she was in a asian cafeteria In Asia recently and was having pasta and was asked "what no rice ?? (as well as the pasta) . One of the problems (but not the only one) is the conversion of crops to biofuels . Misty :2cents: :D :( |
Misty (368) | ||
| 665629 | 2008-05-04 06:24:00 | Even though your comment bk is presumably meant to be cynical (though I might be giving you the benefit of the doubt :) ) you are probably right. Someone on National Radio (which Mrs Misty listens to) said that he/she was in a asian cafeteria In Asia recently and was having pasta and was asked "what no rice ?? (as well as the pasta). One of the problems (but not the only one) is the conversion of crops to biofuels. Misty :2cents: :D :( There are probably too many points here for some members to digest !! Misty ;) |
Misty (368) | ||
| 665630 | 2008-05-04 07:08:00 | What is the reason for the rise in the price of rice It must be the lice and mice that are not playing nice. |
Renmoo (66) | ||
| 665631 | 2008-05-04 08:50:00 | Rice at a price www.nzherald.co.nz ""But Asian countries face different issues over rice, with the region home to the world's biggest importer, the Philippines, and the world's top exporter, Thailand. "Prices are going up, but there is no problem with the supply because new crops will come soon, probably in July," said a Thai trade ministry official. The Asean meeting is also being attended by representatives from Australia, New Zealand, India and the United States. The World Food Programme has described soaring food prices as a "silent tsunami" that threatens to plunge more than 100 million people on every continent into poverty."" |
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