Chapter 392: Food Rises
Siamese traders have continued to raise the price of grain exports, which has seriously affected Australia's trade purchases, and in the past two weeks, Australian rice merchants have stopped purchasing Siamese rice.
This kind of performance is just a normal response for Australian rice merchants, but for Siamese merchants, it seems that it is not intimidating, but the price of export rice is getting higher and higher, which is close to two yuan per catty compared to two weeks ago.
Prices continue to rise, and the price of food in Australia is also rising, this phenomenon can be seen from the big promotion action on Saturday and Sunday, the past two days are the days of promotion in major stores, but in the past two weeks, the price of rice has not fallen, and it is rising every day.
This also makes many ordinary citizens see that it is wrong, basically the citizens living in Manchester City know that Australia's food is basically imported, and there seems to be no shortage of other daily necessities here, except for rice and wheat, which are very scarce.
I originally thought that in my hometown, the grain was already expensive enough, but when I arrived in Australia, I found that it was cheap, and if it weren't for the high monthly salary, it was estimated that many people would not be able to afford rice and wheat at all.
Combined with the discount promotion every Saturday and Sunday, it can be much cheaper, and such a price is naturally acceptable.
Now that there have been no discounts and price reductions for two weeks, but are getting higher and higher day by day, the citizens have realized that something is wrong, and some of them have already bought a large amount of food at low prices and hoarded at home, while most people have not hoarded food for more than three months at home.
For a while, rumors were raging in the city of Manchester and other towns in Australia, all of which were discussing why food had suddenly risen, and it only went up, not down.
When the people are full, there are so many things they can discuss, and this is still something that is closely related to them.
If the problem is not solved, it is estimated that they will be able to continue to talk about it.
Originally, according to the market environment. At present, the price of grain per catty in Australia is about two yuan and six cents, which is still the price after the price increase, which is more than a dollar compared with the price increase.
If the price is raised according to the market environment, the current Australian grain cannot be bought without three yuan, and COSCO Trading Company, which is engaged in overseas trade, actually wants to increase the price. But after the government interviewed him personally, the price began to rise slowly, not as crazy as the export price of Siam.
These grains were still hoarded before, if it weren't for the previous price difference, Ren Changle would definitely lose money, and the government would not subsidize it.
In order not to lose money, Ren Changle and several other rice merchants have stopped buying grain.
When Huang Fu proposed to deter by force, these rice merchants applauded the most.
These Siamese simply don't know how thick the sky is. In Southeast Asia, even the Dutch want to save face, and they dare to raise prices rashly just because they feel that they earn too little, which is definitely an insult to Australia, and Australia absolutely cannot accept all this.
However, it takes money to launch a military deterrent, and the government has to pay for the military spending, but at the same time, the government will also consider whether it is worth it or not, after all, the military operation in Malacca has just ended.
In any case, Ren Changle and others are resolutely not buying grain. They demanded that the government must protect their rights and interests overseas, and they also made a lot of nonsense. A government that does not even guarantee the rights and interests of its own citizens abroad is simply not qualified.
With the resistance of local rice merchants, the statistics of the country's grain reserves have also been calculated, which is simply not enough to support until June this year, so the government must take some action, otherwise Australia will fall into a state of food shortage again.
When Zhou Aiguo saw the report that was sent. He remembered again the food rationing system when the group had just crossed over, and everyone had set how much food to eat, and it wasn't until a year later that Australia officially solved the food crisis, and now it is coming again. Is it that the current development is a bit biased?
Australia's main development is industrial and light industry exports, and the degree of attention to agriculture is not very large, and it seems that it is necessary to provide policy support for the vigorous development of agriculture in China.
Manchester City's state-owned farm group is not seen as an agriculture-based company, but in fact it has now completely turned agriculture into an auxiliary to the company, and the company has carried out large-scale land enclosure campaigns in various cities to take shares in newly opened companies.
As a result, agricultural income has become a small part of the group's income, and it is not the main source of income.
This phenomenon must be changed, and Zhou Aiguo is determined to put things in order. A government work meeting was held, which was attended by ministers and deputy ministers from various ministries.
In the conference room, Zhou Aiguo just said a brief opening remark, and finally went directly to the topic, which is already a traditional habit in Australia.
"The food crisis is coming again, we have to fundamentally solve the problem, according to the geographical location information provided by Anlan, we can see that there are still suitable locations for planting rice in Australia, but we have developed too little, and have gone off the rails in development, and have been moving towards industrial development, without paying attention to the importance of agriculture, and we have repeatedly emphasized that Australia is not an agricultural country to take the route of an industrial power."
Zhou Aiguo stood on the rostrum, and did not use a manuscript to say such a passage at all, it can be seen that he has done very hard and seriously, and these things are all from the heart.
"I think everyone should understand the concept that the big industrial countries are not completely separated from agriculture, and we can see from the later developed capitalist countries such as the United States that their domestic agricultural development is also quite strong. Therefore, while industrial development, we should consider using equipment to bring us more convenient agricultural development. ”
Zhou Aiguo's proposal can be said to be very good, at least at present, there are not too many machinery and equipment for agricultural development in China, which means that it is impossible to vigorously develop agriculture, and to develop agriculture, it is necessary to rely on a large number of laborers.
Although the aborigines are good, but the aborigines are too stupid, and the Australian government now has clear restrictions on the use of the aborigines, not just go out and arrest an aboriginal can bring back the land, in short, the human rights of the aborigines are improved, but there is still a long time before the real improvement, after all, there are still aborigines in factories and plantations around the country.
However, Zhou Aiguo's words make people have to think deeply. (To be continued......)