Homo sapiens

January 28th.

Tianzhu.

Delhi.

Bodhidharma, who has been back to work on the ground for several months, is currently in his office.

He was listening to a report from the head of the Ministry of Agriculture.

"Friday's data showed that as of January 28, a total of 22.43 million hectares of wheat had been sown in various places, a decrease of 22% from 28.13 million hectares in the same period last year." The person in charge of the Ministry of Agriculture broke out in cold sweat on his forehead.

Bodhidharma's face was very solemn: "Hasn't an order been issued to ensure the wheat planting area in the northwest states? Why has the decline been so large?"

"Gulu... I'm sorry, because global food prices have plummeted, international wheat prices have now fallen below $275 per ton, and rice has also fallen below $266 per ton."

Bodhidharma had a terrible headache.

After the southwest monsoon ended from June to September last year, Tianzhu experienced long-term rainfall in October and November, which increased soil moisture in the central and northern parts of the country and helped increase the planting area of ​​wheat, the main winter crop.

Therefore, he ordered to urge the northwest states to increase wheat planting area to increase Tianzhu's total grain production and reduce dependence on Homo sapiens food.

However, his wishful thinking is no match for the free market and the profit-seeking mentality of many farmers and farmers.

Planting an acre of wheat now, even if Tianzhu officials provide certain subsidies, but excluding fertilizers, pesticides and labor costs, if the current international wheat quotation is used, the profit per ton of wheat is only 11 US dollars.

The even scarier thing is that Homo sapiens has planned to lower the price of prepared flour in February to 120 gold yuan per ton, equivalent to US$240 per ton.

At this price, it would be unprofitable to grow wheat, and you would have to pull it to make feed or eat it yourself.

Small farmers may be able to eat by themselves, but how can farmers with dozens of hectares of farmland eat by themselves?

Of course, there is another way, that is, Tianzhu pays for the wheat himself at a high price.

But Damo looked at the newly released economic data for 2022, which showed a series of deficits, as well as the US$83.7 billion borrowed from America and the US$56.6 billion from Homo sapiens. His face was filled with helplessness.

In the past six months, Homo Sapien Company's cheap food has been hitting the entire Tianzhu market like crazy. At the same time, Homo Sapien Company has raised the purchase prices of various cash crops.

Many farmers directly replant wheat, rice, and corn fields with cash crops, such as tea, jute, turmeric, galangal, ginger, garlic, onions, black pepper, star anise, green onions, and fruits.

Obviously, this is the deliberate guidance of the Homo sapiens company to include Tianzhu's rice, wheat, soybeans, sugar cane, peanuts and other things that can be used as staple foods in the scope of low-price dumping.

At the same time, designated cash crops were purchased at high prices.

The wheat planting area alone in Tianzhu has decreased by more than 6 million hectares this year, and wheat production is expected to decrease by 30 million tons this year.

If it is not stopped, the rice sown area in June this year is expected to be significantly reduced.

Originally, grain output was only 280 million tons (excluding Assam). Now cash crops have taken away a large part of the planting area of ​​wheat and corn. Once the planting area of ​​rice also decreases, the total grain output this year is estimated to be 200 million tons. A huge gap appears.

hateful! Bodhidharma clenched his fists, and he found that Tianzhu had now fallen into the rhythm of the Homo sapiens company.

In order to fill last year's food gap, it was necessary to import 30 to 50 million tons of food. Tianzhu did not have the money to buy it, so it had to develop its economy, which led them to open the market to Homo sapiens companies.

As a result, Tianzhu has no way to use anti-dumping and increased tariffs to protect its domestic grain industry.

The Homo sapiens company further took advantage of low food prices and increased the purchase price of cash crops to discourage farmers and farmers in Tianzhu from planting food crops and increased the proportion of cash crops planted.

This will lead to a decline in Tianzhu's grain output this year, and a huge grain gap still exists.

No, the food gap will even continue to grow.

But what can he do now? Refuse to buy food from Homo sapiens companies?

Don't be kidding, now ABCD has been losing ground in the international grain market. Even if the City on the Mountain Council increases its support, there is still no way to improve ABCD's operating difficulties.

After all, the international food prices are there.

Homo sapiens is now developing high-yield seawater rice in the Suez area. It is expected to complete the first phase of the agricultural zone reconstruction in the Red Sea Province of Suez this year. It plans to plant 20,000 square kilometers of seawater rice, with an annual output of 72 million tons.

Similarly, the Homo sapiens company will increase production to a certain extent in agricultural areas in Southeast Asia, Assam, Ceylon, and Mada Island.

Especially in Assam, due to the temporary armistice agreement with Tianzhu, the rice output in Assam this year will reach 80 to 90 million tons.

According to this trend, Homo sapiens' total grain output in 2023 will reach an unprecedented 920 million tons.

Even if all employees of the Homo sapiens company are big eaters, including feed consumption, the per capita consumption of food is 600 to 700 kilograms, and more than 800 million employees will consume 520 million tons of food.

The remaining 400 million tons of grain will be poured into the international market.

Damo is not a fool. He knows that in this case, global food prices will definitely remain depressed for a long time, and other food exporting countries will be significantly less interested in growing food crops.

In fact, this has been America's strategy before. They wildly subsidized the local food growing industry, then suppressed other food exporting countries, and finally used ABCD to control the agriculture of other food producing countries.

The Rosewood Federation in South America is a typical example, and its agriculture is basically controlled by ABCD.

It's just that now ABCD has also met its opponent.

Homo sapiens company is different from the opponents ABCD has encountered in the past. In several confrontations between the two sides, ABCD always ended up at a loss.

The main reason why ABCD failed miserably was that the Homo sapiens company had its own system and had advantages over ABCD in terms of seeds, pesticides and fertilizers, agricultural machinery, labor costs, warehousing and transportation, agricultural land, and agricultural technology.

Nowadays, Homo sapiens companies are deliberately engaging in price wars, which is to repay others with their own methods.

Once you fall into the rhythm of Homo sapiens, the consequences will be very serious.

This is the case in Tianzhu now.

Its domestic food production has dropped significantly, and after excluding the 55 million people in Assam, there are still 1.345 billion people. Such a huge population needs to consume a huge amount of food.

After those farmers and farmers have tasted the sweetness of growing cash crops, they don't care about food security. Making gold dollars is the most important thing. Gold dollars can buy everything.

The only way for Tianzhu to get rid of its food dependence on the Homo sapiens company is to find another alternative supplier and at the same time prepare food reserves.

The problem is, both of these are hard to do.

Because many compradors who cooperate with Homo sapiens companies have opened a large number of supermarkets to help Homo sapiens companies sell food and industrial products.

Farmers and farmers can also obtain exclusive coupons from Homo Sapiens Company, and go to these comprador supermarkets to buy cheap goods and food.

As for the grain purchased by Tianzhu officials, the Homo sapiens company has been dragging its feet and deliberately found excuses not to sell it, leaving Tianzhu's official strategic reserve grain inventory at a low level.

Bodhidharma really wanted to kill the compradors and farmers in his heart, but when he thought about the number of these people and the intricate network of relationships, he suddenly became dejected.

Obviously, Homo sapiens company's layout in Tianzhu has achieved initial results.

In the future, Tianzhu's local grain production will only become less and less. If one day Bodhidharma disobeys, he can just raise the price of grain.

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