India To Ship Wheat To Afghanistan As Aid: Sources

[Sambha]

Does India have surplus of food?

(500m tones)

Please read something reliable when it comes to news. Communist newspapers are not about news, they never were.

 

[wtf]

Wheat is part of total grain yield. The total production of India is 210m tones in 2008. Google it!

Btw, India has three times more cultivable land than China. Incredible!

It seems you guys are net exporters ? Project MUSE - China Review International - <i>Grains in China: Foodgrain, Feedgrain, and World Trade</i> (review)

 

[yh1]

I think he was quoting total food grain production.If that's the case and China is producing so much, China must be using up the rest for either biofuels, cattlefeed or for production of secondary goods for exports.In turn it must be importing meat or something.
http://www.unescap.org/rural/doc/GreenFood/NIB-Sept2000_3.PDF

Chinese plant two seasons of rice and one season of wheat or something else in the Southern part every year. Chinese farmers have much harsher life than Indians. The grain yield per hector is much higher. How can Indians talk about green revolution if you don't at all work hard?

 

[wtf]

Chinese plant two seasons of rice and one season of wheat or something else in the Southern part every year. Chinese farmers have much harsher life than Indians. The grain yield per hector is much higher. How can Indians talk about green revolution if you don't at all work hard?

No clue how China produces more food than India while still importing food from outside. I know that the figures in the report are correct (The link is from UN organization). Anyway it is off topic.

I don't think this thread was to start an Indo-China food fight. Please comment on Afghan food situation or exports from China to Afghanistan if any.

 

[DarkStar]

Nice to hear of another bumper harvest in East Punjab, and what a coincidence, that a major river flowing into Pakistan was blocked by Bharat two years ago, and the result is this.

 

[Goodperson]

Nice to hear of another bumper harvest in East Punjab, and what a coincidence, that a major river flowing into Pakistan was blocked by Bharat two years ago, and the result is this.

Punjab has 5 rivers, the dam was not blocked if you are talking about Baghliar project. The reservoir was filled on the agreed days. There is big thread on it. Btw its off topic.

 

[wtf]

Punjab has 5 rivers, the dam was not blocked if you are talking about Baghliar project. The reservoir was filled on the agreed days. There is big thread on it. Btw its off topic.

I thought Baghliar is on Indus and the dispute was about a power project in J&K. I don't think the river has much to do with Punjab since the plant is still not running.

Darkstar, what river are you talking about ? Maybe start a thread with the title ?

 

[AgNoStiC MuSliM]

Please ship them as much wheat as they want.

Perhaps then they'll stop smuggling it from our markets and driving our prices up and causing shortages.

Pakistan essentially grows food for two nations.

 

[Gabbar]

Punjab's green revolution was not only dependent on water from rivers since mostof the irrigation is still done by wells. It was people who live there and machinery. Punjab is really tiny but still produces most of India's wheat and rice. But this party is going to last only so long now. Well water has dropped to dangerous levels now and thousands of farmers have commited suicide now.
Sorry for going off topic.

Kudos to India for sending that food to Afganistan. It will feed very needy people and takes some pressure off of Pakistan.

 

[white_pawn]

Please ship them as much wheat as they want.

Perhaps then they'll stop smuggling it from our markets and driving our prices up and causing shortages.

Pakistan essentially grows food for two nations.

ya would be good for pakistan. now they have to grows food for one nation only.

 

[BATMAN]

Actually India has not had food production problems in a long while. We have not had western intervention in the food sector for a long time either.

Please check this request of food aid, on your very own forum:
http://www.defence.pk/forums/205348-post19.html

 

[BATMAN]

ya would be good for pakistan. now they have to grows food for one nation only.

I'm not so sure about it.....

Pakistan clears 500,000 tonnes wheat export to India

 

[Cheetah786]

Punjab's green revolution was not only dependent on water from rivers since mostof the irrigation is still done by wells. It was people who live there and machinery. Punjab is really tiny but still produces most of India's wheat and rice. But this party is going to last only so long now. Well water has dropped to dangerous levels now and thousands of farmers have commited suicide now.
Sorry for going off topic.

Kudos to India for sending that food to Afganistan. It will feed very needy people and takes some pressure off of Pakistan.

Farmers arent commiting suicide because lack of water they cant afford to pay back the loans they took out to buy GM seeds.

You can say kudos to india for now but you do realize indian government is subsidizing farmers buy wheat at higer prices and redistributing at lower prices.
If they allow the exporters to carry on the trade they will have to susidize it again to make prices lower enough for other countries to buy it.
This is going to cost Big to indian government in the long run and eventually to the average joe once the excess wheat is exported.

 

[taiji]

India, Tailand, Vietnam are major rice exporter in the world. Last year when food price skyrocketed, they bring up the idea of Organization of Rice Exporter Country. It's a good move that Inida can contribute Afghanistan economically. BTW from 2005 China has become the 3rd largest food aid donor in the world.

China emerges as world&#039;s third largest food aid donor | WFP | United Nations World Food Programme - the UN food aid agency

 

[wtf]

Farmers arent commiting suicide because lack of water they cant afford to pay back the loans they took out to buy GM seeds.

You can say kudos to india for now but you do realize indian government is subsidizing farmers buy wheat at higer prices and redistributing at lower prices.
If they allow the exporters to carry on the trade they will have to susidize it again to make prices lower enough for other countries to buy it.
This is going to cost Big to indian government in the long run and eventually to the average joe once the excess wheat is exported.

Thanks for your post, it is pretty balanced view of the agricultural sector of India.

I agree that it is a big cost to Indian government, but it seems like most countries subsidize their food sector because
1) It often helps the poorest
2) It is considered a "strategic" sector
3) Governments lose power whenever food prices fluctuate

France claims subsidized food helps tourist industry (vineyard tourism etc.), US subsidizes wheat and corn and then exports all the food out to African countries, Brazil uses sugarcane for ethanol etc.

Nevertheless economists do fault India for being too uptight about its food sector and for trying to exactly balance demand-supply (micromanaging).