Ryan Bailey

Free trade is the natural economic solution.

Bureacracies cost much. Communisms cost all.

Reintegration of agriculture to the local level from the transnational level will best serve the people of the world.

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luffaman

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Yuan Longping (Chinese: 袁隆平; Pinyin: Yuán Lóngpíng; born September 7, 1930) is a Chinese agricultural scientist and educator, known for developing the first hybrid rice varieties in the 1970s. His "hybrid rice" has since been grown in dozens of countries in Africa, America, and Asia —providing a robust food source in high famine risk areas. He is called "The Father of Hybrid Rice". His contribution to the mankind is enormous. By his achievement, the Earth is able to produce extra rice equivalent to the food requirement by tens of millions of population.

At present, as much as 60 percent of China's total rice grow Yuan Longping’s hybrid rice species. More rice so produced is enough to feed 60 million people. Worldwide, 20% of rice comes from the rice species created by hybrid rice following his methodology.

The "Super Rice" Yuan is now testing yields 30 percent higher than those of common rice.

A famous economist claimed the Yuan’s achievement as a victory over the threat of famine and that Yuan was ushering us into a world with ample food.

luffaman

2006/07
Country/Region (Metric tons per hectare)Production

World: 420.6
United States: 6.24
Total Foreign: 414.36

East Asia

China Peoples Republic of: 127.8
Japan: 7.79
Korea Republic of: 4.68
Korea Democratic Peoples Rep: 1.9

South Asia

India: 93.35
Bangladesh: 29
Pakistan: 5.2

Southeast Asia

Indonesia: 35.3
Vietnam: 22.92
Thailand: 18.25
Burma Union of: 10.6
Philippines: 10.09
Cambodia: 3.95
Laos: 1.6
Malaysia: 1.39


South America

Brazil 7.7
Peru 1.6


Sub-Saharan Africa

Nigeria 2.9
Madagascar 2.24

EU-27

Italy 0.87
Spain 0.52


Egypt 4.38
Iran 1.98
Others 18.37

Parihaka

You'll notice by Luffamans figures China is the largest single grower of rice. 2 months ago with virtually no comment by the media China ended virtually all grain exports, following India's lead.

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luffaman

pari,
your link is very interesting, thanks,
i have no idea why they do that,
but i guarantee you, if my ccp replace the evil ccp, i will send ships loaded with rice instead of weapon to africa.

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luffaman

there are some more interesting clips, allow me present here,
after read it, you will notice why rice is so important in USA.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, whose country is Europe's largest biofuel producer, said the rise in food prices was not mainly due to biofuels but to "inadequate agricultural policies in developing countries" as well as "insufficient forecasts of changes in nutritional habits" in emerging markets.

"If you travel to India these days, then a main part of the debate is about the 'second meal'," Merkel said.

"People are eating twice a day, and if a third of one billion people in India do that, it adds up to 300 million people. That's a large part of the European Union," she said.

"And if they suddenly consume twice as much food as before and if 100 million Chinese start drinking milk too, then of course our milk quotas become skewed, and much else too," she said referring to EU limits on dairy production.




WASHINGTON: The "improvement in the diets of people in India and China", which is forcing the governments there to keep food "inside" is a cause for the current global supply shortage, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has said.

Parihaka

Yes indeed. The improvement in living standards in Asia doesn't mean that people there may buy a car or own a cell-phone: far more importantly, they eat more.
I'm terrified by the fact that Doha is going nowhere.

astralis

pari,

by some estimates the failure of the doha round causes almost as much (potential) direct damage economically as the 9-11 attacks did in the US. remarkable.

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Parihaka

With the world bank placing so much emphasis on their current simplistic dogma of macro-economic reform while ignoring fundamentals such as modernisation of agricultural production it's only a matter of time until a crisis point is reached. There's a convenience for the developed world to ignore reform because it suits them politically (read the EU) to continue tarifs and subsidisation. Now we have the major 'third world' exporters halting exports at the same time as Burma loses the bulk of its production.
China and India can't be blamed for restricting exports, it's only logical to protect their own interests, but along with western agricultural reform they need their own reformation, moving from subsistence level farming techniques to modern mass production.