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Does India have surplus of food?
(500m tones)
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Does India have surplus of food?
(500m tones)
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!
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?
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.
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.
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.
ya would be good for pakistan. now they have to grows food for one nation only.
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.
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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.