Topic: I wonder if food prices in your country have also increased? - page 5. (Read 1756 times)

Well I understand what you mean. And indeed all countries cannot make the same policies in this matter. Because the advantages possessed by each country are different. Like Arab countries which focus on oil mining and import exports needed in that country. This is different from countries that have natural wealth and soil fertility which is definitely dominated by the agricultural sector. And in Asia, there are many developing countries that actually have fertile land and agriculture can help the country's finances if it is developed. But some countries ignore their natural wealth and instead focus more on sectors that are not really their field. They focus on building electric car facilities, for example. But on the one hand, their agricultural sector is really not advanced and is still far behind developed countries.
But it would be very good if the agricultural sector and other sectors were given balanced attention.

In Japan, for example. I think in Japan Agriculture and education are priorities. They really appreciate the agricultural sector there. There, technological advances have also been developed to pamper farmers with tools that make it easier for farmers to manage land. And this should be emulated by developing countries. Developed countries can become developed because they balance technological progress to advance agriculture and all sectors that benefit their citizens and the country. Balance is what is required in this case. Technological progress and agriculture must coexist and cannot be separated.

Because technology should be needed to increase the efficiency of increasing food supply in life. Such as helping farmers to have more food yields in a short time.

Our current government is only focused on the election of the new President bro.
Our economy is getting worse and society is divided into groups that attack each other.

When economic inequality cannot be addressed there are many negative things that happen.
Life is not worth living and those in leadership are just watching.

As for increasing employment, that's still quite far from reality.
There is a lot of unemployment and those who finish high school do not necessarily get a job.

The government is not very prosperous for farmers, they prefer to import foodstuffs rather than foodstuffs from their own country.

the elected government of every country is obliged to take care of their citizens, otherwise why would we elect them.

anyway, the development of road infrastructure must also be balanced with the attention given by the government to agriculture because good infrastructure can provide fast access to distribution.  

Let's just look at what the Chinese government is currently doing, they have food reserves that are large enough and are estimated to be able to support all of their citizens in the next few years, but infrastructure development in their country is also in line.  in third world countries, what i noticed is that the government is only busy enriching itself, development and agriculture don't get equal attention so they only rely on exchanges from foreign countries.

Government does still have a role when it comes to their economic situation specially on prices of goods and other stuffs which if they do saw that there's some possible shortage then exportation should be halted because we know that if the consumption overall is high but the supply is less then you would really be expecting on higher price or increasing which there's no sense that if the government would really be deciding on continuing those exportation which it is one of the few conditions or situations which does shows that government decisions and laws could really give out such impact in overall. Somewhat there are some commodities or areas which cant really be totally be stopped specially if its value is really basing up on market value.They would normally be that be adjusting basing up on where they could really be able to have that profit margin out of those suppliers of foods or simply with those goods. Therefore, as a citizen who does have that struggling on food prices or other commodities then it would really be just that common sense or wise thing to be thinking up of
on having another source of income on which it could really make you that able to sustain and afford on whatever things you wanted to purchase on and not only limited to food only but also in other things.

In this case I think it depends on the country itself that prioritises an aspect. When in an agricultural country, it is important to do the best for agriculture because this will be very helpful even though sometimes there are some countries that do not see this but for developed agricultural countries such as Japan, they actually do very good things for agriculture, especially after the tsunami that devastated their country even for now Japan enforces agriculture as one of the important sectors in the country's economy and is a great source of income for farmers.

But for agrarian countries that are still in the development stage sometimes do not really see agriculture as an important sector and lack of attention even though it is one of the things that is very good to be utilised.
So in this case I think it depends on the country's policy when talking about this because we cannot equalise all countries in policies towards agriculture.

You've brought up an important point: people often think wrongly that higher prices automatically mean more money for the producer. I totally agree. When the weather is bad, the farmer has to spend more money and time just to stay even. The cost of labor goes up, and watering systems might need to be updated. At the same time, the land becomes less fertile.

The economy is not easy, is it? We often forget, though, that these farmers and businesses are the backbone of the whole economy, while policymakers sit back in their comfort zones. Government intervention can be both good and bad. Sometimes it helps, but other times it just wastes money and doesn't help people or producers in any real way

It should be, aside from infrastructures, there should be additional aid that the government should be preparing, like with what happened currently in Libya. it's an un-plan disaster that needs to address or to anticipate.

We can't control everything and same with the government, the inflations affects the prices of the basic needs
additional concern that should also be taking care of the government to help, especially those poor communities
who really need help the most.

I think this is related to inflation. Of course, our country will also experience an increase in food prices. This is really bad for those who have low salaries in their jobs. they only run out of necessities to get a salary. I think this is the time to start thinking about investing to fight inflation.

I agree with this, although what the government has attempted to do by building infrastructure in the form of upgrading or building new ones such as roads, bridges and so on is also a priority. But, the basics must also be touched upon, of course. Today, many natural phenomena occur and one of them is the devastating floods in Libya with 2% of the Libyan population dead and missing (Condolences for this disaster). So, if we look at what is focused on, the main thing is basic fulfillment, health and then post-incident rehabilitation.

What choice do we have? Give up that modest daily diet that leaves much to be desired? So you can stretch your hooves. This is where the option of finding an additional source of income comes in. There is a minus and a very big one - this is the amount of free time remaining. It should be distributed wisely and not wasted. It may not even be available for communication on the forum. Physical fatigue also takes its toll and you already have a desire to just rest when you come home all exhausted.
This is the case with multiple sources of work.
You need to find some kind of harmony in all this. How to do it? A good question to which very few people know the answer. Everyone's life situation is different. Living conditions also have an impact. There are quite a lot of variables in the equation.

Level of inflation risks by country:

Having funding for modern technology like harvesters can make the farmer save huge money and time, but you are right the government is not prioritizing them as they are more focused on building roads and modern buildings but we can't blame them as mostly this will be happening in 3rd world countries where everything still needs to be built. What I do hope is that they add more funding to farmers even just a little bit higher so that they will continue to plant more. Right now a lot of farmers are quitting and the outcome of this is that the prices of food will increase.

You could think the farmers are making whole lot of profits when they sells out their agricultural products at higher rate at the time of the drought, but likely did you not know that they have also invested more resources than usual such as increments in labors and materials and tools required in the farm making just to keep the plants growing productively despites the droughts challenges on ground affecting the fertility of the soil so of course, the farmers would also create that impact to make profits out of its sales because no investors ever craving for lost.

As for my country, we are undergoing inflation and there is  over 4 times multiplication increments in the goods and services across the nation.
You don't have to believe the investors are making more extra and higher profits at these processes whereas they purchases the goods on a higher price than before and of course, they should also sell  higher as long as the goal of the business is to make profits and not a charity affair. otherwise, the government sectors is the one being enriched on the process because they fails to provide an ease or alternative to the people instead they are focused at its comfortability.

I think the agricultural sector is often not a priority in a country. Because there is always a lot of funds for building roads and the like rather than for helping agricultural land such as making modern irrigation and so on. In fact, farmers are rarely helped in obtaining modern tools for farming. Even the price of fertilizer is also getting more expensive. Likewise in animal husbandry. Feed prices are getting more expensive. But we also can't completely complain about this to the government. Because we ourselves are also responsible for ourselves and the sector we enter. But I also hope that the agricultural sector can be given better attention by every government in the world. Because food is the main thing in this world to support life.

Like in other country price here n the Philippines continuously rises due to the government not supporting too much the agriculture field they keep wasting a lot of money on the confidential funds Sometimes it's also with the government how they manage their community instead of doing an action to the people of the community here in us we are suffering with the poor politics and corrupt people.
Even not pandemic this happen reason why there's no changes here with the management unlike into the other world countries.

We can't blame the BLT recipients, the use it for consumptive needs probably because of certain reasons. I'm very sure that the government is aware about the potential misused of the BLT. But the government doesn't think too much about it, they keep applying that instant solution because they don't want to be busy thinking more effective solutions. Actually, the best solution is to provide decent jobs for the society. However, it must take more efforts and time, the government doesn't want to be complicated in providing the solution.

At the end of the day, we must find the solution ourselves. If we are aware about the potential crisis of foods, we must prepare the solution since today. Not only by finding more decent jobs for ourselves, we also need to try to fulfill our own foods by making simple agricultural fields (if it is possible).

We have no choice, the government will never consider our rejection. The government probably has certain plans to increase the fuel costs. They won't take the responsibility, they will assume it is the responsibility of the society.

The case of Nigeria in this inflation saga is a peculiar one, peculiar in in the sense that the economy it is surrounded by a people in government that knows the solution to the economic downturn facing the country but decides to pay lips service to it. The government have practically refused to diversify the country's economy focusing and depending mainly on crude oil production for the sustainability of all sectors of the economy.
In the 50s, 60s and 70s Nigeria was well known for her agricultural productivity in all region's of the country there were groundnuts pyramid in the North , cocoa in the West and palm oil and fish production booming in exportable quantities but today all these are history. The agricultural produce are not sufficient to feed the citizens talk more of exporting, because the government has put all it's attention to crude oil since from the late part of the 70s when oil was discovered in the country.

China, Ukraine, India, Russia, USA and many other countries are not feeling the intensity of this global inflation brought by the covid-19 pandemic because they have a diversified economy cushioning the effects of inflation in prices of foodstuffs especially. But this can't be said of those countries that economies depends on one source for their GDP growth. When the price of a barrel of crude oil falls the GDP is nakedly affected, and that's not how an economy grows in this 21C.

Thats how life is just too damn hard and majority of us is already thinking up those partitions even we arent still able to get a hold of our salary on which those amounts are already divided or already bound to have those allocations when it comes to budgeting on which it is really just that hard to make out some adjustments if prices of goods and services do continue to rise which it would really be leading into those struggles on the time that you do recieve your salary and this is indeed fact the reality that we are facing which it is really that too damn hard. This is why it would be wise that you should be finding ways for having an additional income specially if you do have mouths to feed or even being a single would already be a challenge on sustaining yourself. Food prices here in our country does have that nonstop movement when it comes to price on which as a citizen then there's nothing you can do but to blend and go along with it and if you dont really be finding ways on increasing your income then expect that there would really be shortage on your budget which it would really be affecting your living. Not everything would really be blamed out on the government because there are really things which cant be controlled specially that inflation that we are all experiencing excluding into those countries
who do have less to none.

Almost everything has been going up in my country for the last year - fuel, clothes, rent, etc. Of course, except salaries which have increased but nowhere near the same rate. It seems to be a worldwide problem with inflation right now and some countries are handling it better than others. Luckily in the last 2-3 months it feels like it has slowed back down again, especially when the government starts to take action against certain companies which are blatantly trying to price gouge at the expensive of the average person. Unfortunately it has never been a better time for monopolies to abuse their positions by raising prices and there are more of those around than ever.

You're talking of the reality that regardless of where you're living, the food prices really had gone too high.
I don't know the government can control all of these but it's a matter now that we're actually on our own and just survive in the wild.
I guess if the OPEC will start to do their own thing, the entire world reacts and whoever controls oil, controls the entire world and they can dictate prices of theirs for the commodities as it gives domino effect.

This problem is getting out of hand over here, it's very hard to save some money after getting your salary every month, you either spend it all on food or split it into food and house rent bills, it's getting out of hand for real, now I only eat twice daily, that's breakfast and supper, it used to be three foods per day around the clock but now, even food can turn you into a debtor if you are not careful, I don't think this is the same thing with many other countries because the situation of every countries divers from others. All we can hope for are better days and a better country, those who can't cope with the situation are traveling out of the country and I don't blame them.