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To: steve86

Yes, the ones suffering are the net food importers- Indonesia, Bangladesh and the Arab “world” mainly, and not China or India.

India and China are massive wheat AND rice growers, so the only problems that happen are when these two cut down exports, causing importing nations to take the hit.


10 posted on 04/23/2008 3:39:47 PM PDT by CarrotAndStick (The articles posted by me needn't necessarily reflect my opinion.)
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To: CarrotAndStick

India is very capable of having localized shortages, due to inefficiencies in distribution and also fraud. But the main problem has been inflation, as I hear it.


21 posted on 04/23/2008 4:23:40 PM PDT by steve86 (Acerbic by nature, not nurture™)
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To: CarrotAndStick

“Yes, the ones suffering are the net food importers- Indonesia, Bangladesh and the Arab “world” mainly, and not China or India”

Food exporting nations need to form an organization called OFEC and fix prices of food to OPEC nations at about 50 times the domestic price.

Not entirely joking.


23 posted on 04/23/2008 4:59:44 PM PDT by Will88
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