Homo sapiens.

Chapter 353 Under the Vicious Circle...

1 month 28 day.

Tianzhu.

Delhi.

Bodhidharma, who has been working on the ground for several months, is now in his office.

He is listening to the report of the head of the Ministry of Agriculture.

"Friday's data shows that as of January 1, a total of 28 million hectares of wheat have been sown in various places, a decrease of 2243% from 2813 million hectares in the same period of the previous year." The head of the Ministry of Agriculture broke out in cold sweat on his forehead.

Bodhidharma's face was very solemn: "Didn't you already issue an order to let the northwestern states guarantee the wheat planting area, why is there such a large decline?"

"Gulu... Sorry, because of the sharp drop in global food prices, the international wheat price has now fallen below $275 per ton, and rice has also fallen below $266 per ton."

Dharma had a terrible headache.

After the end of the southwest monsoon from June to September last year, prolonged rains in Tianzhu during October and November boosted soil moisture in central and northern parts, helping to increase the planting area of ​​wheat, the main winter crop.

Therefore, he ordered and urged the northwestern states to increase the area of ​​wheat planting, so as to increase the total grain production of Tianzhu and reduce the dependence on Homo sapiens grain.

However, his wishful thinking is no match for the free market and the profit-seeking mentality of all farmers and farmers.

Now planting an acre of wheat, even if the Tianzhu government has given some subsidies, but excluding fertilizers, pesticides and labor costs, according to the current international wheat quotation, the profit per ton of wheat is only US$11.

The more frightening 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.

If this price is followed, it will be unprofitable to grow wheat, and you can only pull it yourself to make feed, or eat it yourself.

Small farmers may be able to eat for themselves, but how can those farmers who own dozens of hectares of farmland eat for themselves?

Of course, there is another way, that is, Tianzhu pays for the wheat at a high price.

But Bodhidharma looked at the freshly released 22-year economic data. It was a series of deficits, as well as the 837 billion dollars borrowed from America and the 566 billion gold dollars from Homo Sapiens. His face was filled with helplessness.

Over the past six months, Homo sapiens' cheap food has crazily hit the entire Tianzhu market, and at the same time, Homo sapiens has raised the purchase prices of various cash crops.

Many farmers directly replant wheat fields, rice fields, and corn fields with cash crops, such as tea, jute, turmeric, galangal, ginger, garlic, onion, black pepper, star anise, green onions, and fruits.

Obviously, this is the intentional guidance of Homo sapiens, and all the rice, wheat, soybeans, sugar cane, peanuts and other things that can be used as staple foods in Tianzhu are included in the scope of low-price dumping.

At the same time, the designated economic crops are purchased at high prices.

In terms of wheat planting area alone, Tianzhu has reduced by more than 600 million hectares this year, and it is expected to reduce 3000 million tons of wheat production this year.

If it is not stopped, the rice planting area in June this year is estimated to be greatly reduced.

Originally, the grain output was only 2.8 million tons (after excluding the Assam area), and now wheat and corn have been robbed of a large part of the planting area by cash crops. Once the planting area of ​​rice is also reduced, the total grain output this year is estimated to decrease A huge gap appears.

hateful!Bodhidharma clenched his fists tightly, and he found that Tianzhu had now fallen into the rhythm of Homo sapiens.

In order to fill the food gap last year, 3000-5000 million tons of grain had to be imported, and Tianzhu had no money to buy it, so it had to develop its economy, which led them to open their market to Homo sapiens.

As a result, Tianzhu has no way to use anti-dumping and tariff increases to protect the domestic grain industry.

Homo sapiens further took advantage of low food prices and increased the purchase price of cash crops to discourage the enthusiasm of Tianzhu farmers and households to grow food crops, and increased the proportion of cash crops planted.

It will lead to a decline in Tianzhu's grain production this year, and a huge grain gap still exists.

No, the food gap will even continue to widen.

But what can he do now?Refuse food for Homo sapiens?
Don't be kidding, now that ABCD has been losing ground in the international grain market, even if the City on a Hill Council increases its support, there is still no way to improve the difficulty of ABCD's operation.

After all, international food prices are there.

Homo sapiens has already been engaged in high-yielding seawater rice in Egypt. It is expected that the first phase of agricultural transformation in Egypt’s Red Sea Province will be completed this year. It is planned to plant 2 square kilometers of seawater rice, with an annual output of 7200 million tons.

Similarly, the agricultural areas of Homo sapiens in Southeast Asia, Assam, Ceylon, and Mada Island will also increase to a certain extent.

Especially in the Assam region, due to the temporary truce agreement reached with Tianzhu, the rice production in the Assam region this year will reach 8000-9000 million tons.

According to this trend, Homo sapiens' total grain output in 23 years will reach an unprecedented 9.2 million tons.

Even if Homo sapiens companies are big eaters, plus the consumption of feed, the per capita consumption of grain is 600-700 kilograms, and a population of more than 8 million people consumes 5.2 million tons of grain.

The remaining 4 million tons of grain will be poured into the international market.

Bodhidharma is not a fool. He knows that under such circumstances, global food prices will definitely remain low for a long time, and other food exporting countries will be less interested in growing food crops.

In fact, this is the strategy that America has been using before. They crazily subsidized the local grain-growing industry, then suppressed other grain-exporting countries, and finally controlled the agriculture of other grain-producing countries with the help of ABCD.

Brazil is a typical example. Its agriculture is basically controlled by ABCD.

It's just that now ABCD has also met an opponent.

Homo sapiens is different from the opponents ABCD has encountered in the past. In several confrontations between the two sides, ABCD ended up at a disadvantage.

The 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, storage and transportation, agricultural land, and agricultural technology.

Now Homo sapiens deliberately engages in a price war, which is to use the other's way and return it to the other.

Once caught in the rhythm of Homo sapiens, the consequences are very serious.

This is the case in Tianzhu now.

Its domestic grain production has dropped significantly, and its population is still 5500 billion after excluding the 13.45 million in Assam. Such a large population needs to consume a huge amount of food.

After those farmers and farmers have tasted the sweetness of growing cash crops, they don't care about food security. Earning gold dollars is the kingly way, and gold dollars can buy everything.

The only way for Tianzhu to get rid of its dependence on Homo sapiens for food is to find another alternative supplier and make good food reserves at the same time.

The problem is, it's hard to do both.

Because many compradors who cooperate with Homo sapiens have opened a large number of supermarkets to help Homo sapiens dump food and industrial products.

Farmers and peasant households can also obtain exclusive coupons for homo sapiens, and go to these comprador supermarkets to buy cheap commodities and food.

As for the grain officially purchased by Tianzhu, Homo sapiens procrastinated and deliberately found excuses not to sell it, which kept Tianzhu's official strategic grain reserve at a low level.

Bodhidharma really wanted to kill those compradors and farmers in his heart, but when he thought of the number of these people and their already intricate network of relationships, he immediately became dejected.

Obviously, the layout of Homo sapiens in Tianzhu has achieved initial results.

In the future, the local food production in Tianzhu will only decrease. One day Bodhidharma will be disobedient and just raise the price of food.

　Thank you for your support (ω｀), please subscribe, collect, monthly and recommendation tickets.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)