Went to a hypermarket a short while ago...A packet of 10 kg rice now cost RM8-9 more...sheeshh!
You can see that nowadays, everywhere in papers or any form of news medias, topics on food shortage always made its way on the print somehow.
I believe one of the reason is rising oil price and worldwide efforts to find alternative fuel. That..may contribute to the so called food crisis now apart from global warming factors and so on. Why might say so? Look around you..we have so called hybrid cars and so on, then we have this relentless pursue for alternative fuel such bio-fuel..bio-diesel, bio-this or bio-that.. bla bla bla..
In Brazil, bio- ethanol is a very popular form of fuel for vehicles in the country. Trouble is when the demand for such fuel starts to grow it shrinks the very own source of form of food to the people. Ethanol are produced from sugar in a wide variety of sugarcane crops, but there has been considerable debate about how useful bio-ethanol will be in replacing fossil fuels in vehicles. Concerns relate to the large amount of land required for crops.
Back to rice, malaysia imports about 30 percent of its rice needs, heavily subsidises a lot daily food items, such as milk and salt.World rice prices have soared this year partly blamed on higher energy and fertiliser costs, global weather changes like droughts or flood
But, alarmingly, it is also due to the loss of rice farmland to biofuel plantations...Hmm time to take out my bicycle out..now if only I can remember wher I stuffed it...
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