Food scarcity alarm bells ringing in CHINA
Apr 26, 2022 18:11:30 GMT -5
Post by OmegaMan on Apr 26, 2022 18:11:30 GMT -5
Food scarcity alarm bells ringing in CHINA as farmers face a collapse of fertilizer availability
Tuesday, April 26, 2022 by: JD Heyes
Tags: China, China collapse, Collapse, culled herds, fertilizer, fertilizer shortage, food insecurity, food riots, food scarcity, food shortages, hogs, pork shortage, riots, Russia, seed shortage, starvation, supply chain crisis, swine flu, Ukraine
(Natural News) While farmers in Europe and the United States are concerned they will see a reduction in crop yields this year thanks to reduced supplies of seeds and fertilizer, China, the country most responsible for setting off the global supply chain crisis in the first place thanks to the ‘accidental’ release of COVID-19, may suffer even greater shortages — to the point of destabilization.
According to Eric Mertz, a global hotspot analyst since 2019 and a China watcher since 2008, reports coming out of and around China suggest that the shortages are far greater than the Communist government in Beijing is willing to admit.
Citing a report from the Financial Times, officials in China’s Jilin, Heilongjiang and Liaoning provinces “have reported one in three farmers lack sufficient seed and fertilizer supplies to begin planting for the optimum spring window,” Mertz writes.
“Missing that window will drive down the eventual yield, resulting in food shortfalls — assuming the fields in question can even be planted in time to produce a crop. According to sources within these areas, they are stuck waiting on seed and fertilizer which have been imported to China from overseas — and which are stuck in the cargo ships sitting off the coast of Shanghai,” he continued.
The analyst went on to note that the official ChiCom newspaper, The Global Times, angrily denounced and denied those reports as well as all others claiming that there are food insecurity issues throughout the country because of production shortfalls (a big deal in a country with 1.3 billion mouths to feed).
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Tuesday, April 26, 2022 by: JD Heyes
Tags: China, China collapse, Collapse, culled herds, fertilizer, fertilizer shortage, food insecurity, food riots, food scarcity, food shortages, hogs, pork shortage, riots, Russia, seed shortage, starvation, supply chain crisis, swine flu, Ukraine
(Natural News) While farmers in Europe and the United States are concerned they will see a reduction in crop yields this year thanks to reduced supplies of seeds and fertilizer, China, the country most responsible for setting off the global supply chain crisis in the first place thanks to the ‘accidental’ release of COVID-19, may suffer even greater shortages — to the point of destabilization.
According to Eric Mertz, a global hotspot analyst since 2019 and a China watcher since 2008, reports coming out of and around China suggest that the shortages are far greater than the Communist government in Beijing is willing to admit.
Citing a report from the Financial Times, officials in China’s Jilin, Heilongjiang and Liaoning provinces “have reported one in three farmers lack sufficient seed and fertilizer supplies to begin planting for the optimum spring window,” Mertz writes.
“Missing that window will drive down the eventual yield, resulting in food shortfalls — assuming the fields in question can even be planted in time to produce a crop. According to sources within these areas, they are stuck waiting on seed and fertilizer which have been imported to China from overseas — and which are stuck in the cargo ships sitting off the coast of Shanghai,” he continued.
The analyst went on to note that the official ChiCom newspaper, The Global Times, angrily denounced and denied those reports as well as all others claiming that there are food insecurity issues throughout the country because of production shortfalls (a big deal in a country with 1.3 billion mouths to feed).
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