Homo sapiens.

Chapter 512 Production Reduction
Galaxy 2, February 4nd.

The cold wave disaster in North America continues.

And the southern hemisphere, which is about to enter winter, is also in a state of many disasters.

The Pampas grassland in South America was torrentially rainy. In some local areas, on April 4, 22 millimeters of rainfall fell in one day. The heavy rain caused floods.

In Kangaroo Country, which is also in the southern hemisphere, most of its territory has not rained for 173 consecutive days at this time, and many rivers and lakes have dried up.

In the Transvaal region, the southernmost part of Africa, winter has entered ahead of schedule, and some places have already started to snow. For example, Cape Town, the southernmost part, has experienced blizzards.

As for the tropical regions, there are not a few abnormal weather, such as a general increase in precipitation in the Sahara Desert, drought in the Deccan Plateau, floods in West Pakistan, and typhoons in Southeast Asia.

The extreme weather around the world this year has had a serious impact on agricultural production in various places.

Among the four major powers in the free world, Lucia has not yet passed winter at all, causing the wheat, potatoes, sugar beets and sunflowers in the Eastern European Great Plains to be unable to sow in time.

The western coast of Europa is even more miserable, because their latitude is actually similar to that of the northeast region of Serris. Without the warm water vapor brought by the North Atlantic warm current, the temperate marine climate they depend on for survival has become "not warm".

Temperatures in Britain, Germany and northern France are now jumping sideways, making open-air farming difficult.

Instead, the Dutch took the opportunity to make a fortune by virtue of large-scale greenhouse agriculture.

The prices of vegetables and fruits, which had been suppressed, soared again in less than a month.

Of course, vegetables and fruits are actually small things.

Because there is another more important thing, that is, the prices of bulk agricultural products have also entered a hurricane mode.

The prices of wheat, corn, rice, barley, sugar beets, sunflower seeds, rapeseed, peanuts, and soybeans all rose to varying degrees.

As for why there is no sugar cane and palm, the answer is that the four major powers have lost their voice in the tropics. In addition, after the complete decoupling of the Free World and Homo sapiens, the bulk commodities of the two sides are rarely traded.

At present, 92% of the world's sugar cane production and 100% of palm oil production are in the hands of Homo sapiens. Naturally, these two commodities will not appear in the futures market of the free world.

If there were no such serious natural disasters, the agricultural production capacity of the free world would be very rich.

The combined food production capacity of America and Lucia is enough to feed 8 to 9 million people, and forces such as the Europa Federation can barely support themselves.

But God is not beautiful.

Extreme weather directly hits agricultural production around the world.

Except for Homo Sapiens, which started indoor dull agriculture to make up for production capacity, the agricultural production capacity of other forces has shrunk to varying degrees.

Some forces actually have to thank Homo sapiens. If Homo sapiens hadn’t recruited more than 6 million local employees, they would have had a harder time. Even if they had stocks, they would not be able to withstand the large-scale shutdown of agricultural production.

As for those small forces that still need to purchase large quantities of food, such as the Saudi Kingdom in West Asia, Persia, Ottoman, or the Abdwald Republic in North Africa and the like.

They have only one option now.

That is to hug the thigh of Homo sapiens father quickly, otherwise it will really be over.

Without vegetables and fruits, just bear with it and pass.

Without food, it would be very fatal.

……

Nimanya.

Although it was also affected by the cold wave in Eastern Europe, the open-air agriculture has reduced a lot of production.

However, the local branch of Homo sapiens started a part of the underground indoor light-free farm as early as the beginning of the year, using the energy generated by the nuclear power plant to continuously produce various vegetables and fruits, grain feed, sugar, edible oil, meat, eggs and milk.

Prices in various cities in the Nemanya region have not fluctuated at all.

The local per capita monthly income is still 2477 gold dollars, and the median income is around 1950 gold dollars.

In the Balkan region where Nemanya is located, the monthly per capita income of the surrounding members of the Europa Consortium is around 1500 to 1800 euros.

It looks like the two revenue figures are about the same.

If calculated according to purchasing power, 1 gold dollar is equivalent to about 35 euros at this time.

This is an extremely scary number.

The employees of the local Homo sapiens company in Nimanya traveled by space shuttle, and it only cost 5 gold dollars a trip. This is the terrifying purchasing power of gold dollars at this time.

In order to facilitate the daily transactions of gold dollars, Homo sapiens had to launch coins with a face value of 1 cent.

Inside the Harvest House supermarket in Bell City.

Simmons watched his wife Sophia pick and choose from the shelves, and he suggested helplessly, "Sophia, you should let your brother come to Nimanya to find a job!"

"You don't know his personality?" Sophia picked up a 3kg box of premium purple tomatoes and glanced at the label on the box. The price was 0.27 yuan a box.

"But it's not an option to rely on mail all day. He doesn't eat fruits and vegetables, but your parents want to eat them! The elderly don't have enough vitamin intake, and their immunity is prone to decline." Simmons rolled his eyes speechlessly.

His elder brother's family lives in the Naples area of ​​Western Rome, and the other party is a pretentious fashion designer. In addition, the fashion designer's job is not easy to do now, and his income can only barely make ends meet.

Especially when there are two elderly people in the family, the economic situation is even worse.

But now the prices of vegetables and fruits in West Rome have increased significantly.

Take pizza, which was essential for the three meals of the Western Romans, as an example. The price of tomatoes is 8.5 euros per kilogram, onion is 5.3 euros per kilogram, and green and red peppers are 6.6 euros per kilogram.

This price, compared with the monthly income of the locals, is simply terrible.

Many Western Romans could no longer afford vegetables and fruits.

Sophia mailed a box of vegetables and fruits back to her parents last week.

Many Europeans working in Nemanja and Suez have recently sent food back by mail.

This is why Simmons suggested that Sofia take her parents over.

After all, this kind of mailing is inconvenient. Even Homo Sapiens' exclusive air freight is very cheap, but the West Rome postal company that is connected to it charges a lot.

Fortunately, the Europa Consortium reconciled with Lucia the year before last and obtained a large amount of cheap natural gas, otherwise it would be even worse now.

Sophia picked some storable vegetables and fruits, and asked the waiter to help them pack them up. She purchased an international air express service directly on her mobile phone, and then she could send them directly to the airport in the supermarket.

The two came out of the supermarket.

A gust of cold wind hits his face, making Simmons get goose bumps all over his body.

"This damn weather, isn't it going to snow?"

"It's almost May, it shouldn't be..." Before Sophia finished speaking, a few snowflakes slowly fell from her eyes.

Simmons shrugged: "It's already under."

"How about a holiday in a few days, let's go to the Red Sea for a week?" Sophia suggested.

"Vacation? I heard that there are many coastal cities on the Red Sea, and I haven't gone to the beach to bask in the sun for a long time." Simmons nodded.

The two planned a vacation to the Red Sea to escape the unseasonable weather.

At this time, the temperature in the entire Europa region, especially Eastern Europe and Northern Europe in the middle and high latitudes, suddenly dropped a lot, and many places directly entered winter again.

The zero-degree isotherm has been pushed to central Nemanja, central France, and Western Rome blocked by the Alps, which is slightly better.

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