The FAO Food Price Index, which tracks monthly modifications in the global price ranges of usually traded foods commodities, dipped by 1.9% in December from a thirty day period before, the Rome-centered business stated Friday. For the full year, it averaged 143.7 details, a lot more than 14% over the 2021 common, which also observed substantial increases. The December drop was led by a fall in the cost of vegetable oils amid shrinking import demand, anticipations of enhanced soy oil […]
Drought
Even if those differences average out nationally—possibly even globally, when you balance Southern Hemisphere production against the US and Western Europe, or the Americas against Central Europe and Asia—there’s a persistent sense that things are, well, wiggly. Some of the changes in productivity come from farmers’ decisions, like choosing to plant more in order to make up for a dry year, or less to mitigate the fertilizer price hikes created by Russia withholding exports. But some are unquestionably due to […]
Drought has been a constant companion in the life of 50-year-old Janabai Shakare, a resident of Beed taluka in the drought-prone Marathwada region of Maharashtra. Her youth, she said, was spent lamenting on the vagaries of living in a drought-hit area with little access to potable water and accompanying hardships. She married a farmer from a village about 100 kms from her maternal home, only to be living in another village with parched lands. Overs the years, Janabai’s kitchen […]
