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Fertiliser shortage may make wheat target a distant dream

@epebble

So, Pakistan can focus on growing organic crops,

How did it work out for Lanka?

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Already crisis is building on GMO Soyabean for the poultry industry...egg and chicken prices going up like crazy. 14 ships stuck in port. Due to the population bomb, organic product is out of the question. or adopt backyard farming for organic products. ..
 
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@HAIDER bhai

Until I last checked meat and egg prices (adjusted for exchange rates) are cheaper in Pak than India. How are the trends lately?

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@HAIDER bhai

Until I last checked meat and egg prices (adjusted for exchange rates) are cheaper in Pak than India. How are the trends lately?

Regards
Because of economic turmoil, impacts everything. But I was thinking about how in the world India meets its milk demand. In the last report about Karachi, it surprised us that production vs consumption of milk has a huge gap... h2o to meet demand or god knows what people are drinking ...
 
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fertilizer smuggling is on peak , regime change beneficiaries are earning In millions
 
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Fertilizer uses gas. In January 2021 energy price has already been increasing and make Pakistan fertilizer company difficulty to get LNG (maybe because they cannot increase the fertilizer price to accommodate raw material price increase (LNG). Energy prices actually have already been high since July 2021, this has already made energy crisis happened in India

After Western put sanction on Russia, gas price is even tripling the price in January 2022. Unlike oil price that starts to be cheaper and currently fluctuating within 72-82 USD per barrel, both gas and coal prices are still at relatively the same price with the peak price period due to Western sanction on Russia
 
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@epebble

So, Pakistan can focus on growing organic crops,

How did it work out for Lanka?

Regards
I was spitballing an idea for trading more valuable Organic crops for less expensive non-organics. If Oraganics fetch twice the price of non-organics, it may work out to grow and export 1 pound of organic rice and import two pounds of non-organic rice (less transport costs). One cannot feed a nation on organics, but trade is a different idea. It is same as growing coffee. tea or cocoa (if the geography permits) and exporting it to earn money to import rice and beans. This is the trading model of many Central American countries that are sometimes derisively called Banana republics. Many are actually coffee, quinoa, acai republics now.
 
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@epebble

Your idea is good but there are practical challenges. Biggest being that of switchover and certification. Both are tedious and time consuming processes.

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@HAIDER bhai,

it surprised us that production vs consumption of milk has a huge gap... h2o to meet demand

Are you implying that consumption in Karachi is higher than production? It means Karachi imports a lot of milk from farms in rural Punjab or Sindh. Not necessarily adulteration.

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@epebble

Your idea is good but there are practical challenges. Biggest being that of switchover and certification. Both are tedious and time consuming processes.

Regards

@HAIDER bhai,

it surprised us that production vs consumption of milk has a huge gap... h2o to meet demand

Are you implying that consumption in Karachi is higher than production? It means Karachi imports a lot of milk from farms in rural Punjab or Sindh. Not necessarily adulteration.

Regards
impossible. Data were collected from major nationwide suppliers and local farms.
 
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