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:: Welcome to my online journal, which is for notes on the website, life, thoughts(both literal and graphical) and everything after.
Also, for that many of you have suggested in your emails to set up a blog for communication purpose. Now you have it.
I will upload new entries often so feel free to bump in anytime. Thanks for being here.
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04.29.2008
---> Soaring Global Food Prices
Two that we are most concerned of and probably will so until 2010: cost of fuel and food.
Report below.
• Pricey grain prices may effect Asian food market
Around the world, governments and aid groups are grappling with the escalating cost
of basic grains. Last December 2007, 37 countries faced a food crisis, reports
the UN Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO), and 20 nations had imposed some form
of food-price controls.
Now in Asia, where rice is on every plate, prices are rising almost daily.
Premium Thai fragrant rice now costs USD$900 per ton, a nearly 30 percent
rise from last year. Exporters say the price could eclipse $1,000 per ton by June of this year.
Similarly, prices of ordinary white rice have climbed about 50 percent
since January 2008 to $600 per ton and are projected to up another 40 percent to
$800 per ton in May 2008.
In Combodia, India and Thailand, "The farmers are afraid as their fields have been
robbed in the nighttime," says Sarayouth Phumithon, an official at the
Thai government’s Bureau of Rice Strategy and Supply. "This is just the beginning.
The problem will get worse if the price keeps increasing."
Thailand may try to sell off 2.1 million tons of rice stocks to keep domestic prices
low. But as long as prices stay high, Thai farmers will need to burn the midnight
oil keeping watch over their fields. "Most farmers must sell crops immediately
as they don’t have a good warehouse that can withstand attacks from rats, birds,
chickens – or human thieves," says Mr. Sarayouth.
The skyrocketing prices have prompted millers to default on rice supply
contracts and bandits to steal rice directly in the fields as they aim to store the crop, and sell it later,
as prices continue to rise. The reported thefts in five rice-growing provinces in central
Thailand are the first signs of criminal activity in this region stemming from
the sharpest global spike in commodity prices since the oil crisis in the mid-1970s.
Across the world, higher food prices are triggering thefts and violence – both
by people who can’t afford to eat and those who want to make an easy living.
Analysts note that the current shortage isn't hitting
as many people as hard as past shortages. As incomes rise
worldwide, food is a smaller portion of the family budget.
"Governments have tried to protect domestic prices from fluctuations
in international prices, and they have succeeded in the past," says Sumiter Broca,
a policy analyst at the FAO. "The key point is that the proportion of income spent
on food is much lower than it used to be, so that provides a cushion. The situation
is not as serious as it was in 1974." The FAO expects food prices to stabilize and eventually drop as farmers plant more grains. That’s already starting to happen with wheat and corn.
But the next few years...well, could be difficult.
• Eye-poppers in the supermarket.
More shopping bags saved -
at least here in the U.S. we are paying as much as 69% more over the past two years
for common kitchen staples, like eggs, bread, milk, chicken and more.
Over 20 must-have items' prices have risen over 24
months based on the U.S. city average as of Mar. 31, 2008,
from the Department of Labor's CPI.
Items price with at least a 35 percent increase from last year-2007 are:
(1) Milk. (2) Eggs. (3) Bread. (4) Pasta.
(5) Beans. (6) Chicken. (7) Pork. (8) Fruit Juices.
(9) Salmon. (10) Coffee. (11) Brocolli. (12) Scallion; Green onions. (13) Garlic. (14) Potatoes
(15) Cabbage. (16) Spinach. (17) Flour. (18) Rice. (19) Sugar. (20) Corn.
Have a nice day.
YT
xo
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04.26.2008
---> More than eyes can see.
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Shark kills swimmer at California beach.
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Have you ever wonder how companies got their name? Names and people.
(i.e. Addidas, Bayer, Mazda, Nikon, Starbucks,...etc)
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Foods that reduce stress. www.womenshealthmag.com; Women's Health Magazine
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This you must know.
Human beings may have had a close line with extinction 70,000 years ago,
an extensive genetic study found that the cuase was drought.
Human population at the time scattered to small groups in Africa,
and our numbers may have shrunk to as low as 2,000
before expanding again in the early Stone Age. What I'm saying is celebrate life!
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Until next time, have a good weekend! Auf Wiedersehen.
YT
xo
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