Rising food prices and Global food shortage coming?! Opinions?

[eddysacc]

As we all see foremost the fertilizer prices and food prices are climbing with no end in sight.

 

Who is doing agriculture here in Thailand and has an opinion about how bad the situation will become.

 

Please no doom and gloom.

 

 

 

Edited August 4, 2022 by Jai Dee
Spelling and grammatical errors corrected (mostly)

[Liverpool Lou]

37 minutes ago, eddysacc said:

As we all see foremost the fetilizer prices and food prices are climbing with no end in sight.

 

Who is doing agriculture here in Thailand and has an oppinion about how bad will the situation become.

 

Please no doom and gloom.

"Please no doom and gloom".

You may want to read your own thread title!

[1FinickyOne]

43 minutes ago, eddysacc said:

 

Please no doom and gloom

Then why ask for opinions? and you want to know how bad it will get? As long as it cannot be in the category of gloomy?

 

ok - Every things coming up roses for you and for me...

[shackleton]

It is gloom and doom for most countries around the world 

Prices rising for food oil electricity and so on ????

[BritManToo]

"Rising food prices and Global food shortage coming?"

 

It's unlikely there will ever be a global food shortage.

Farmers can grow as much as we need, but farmers aren't charity workers.

They sell their products, and you will need to work in order to buy your food.

If you can't pay for it, then they won't grow it.

 

Posters often confuse starving people with not enough food available.

The problem is more to do with starving people not having the money to pay for their food.

 

I have 5 rai of rice paddy, not planted it for the past 5 years because the price of rice 10bht/Kg isn't worth the effort of planting.

Edited August 4, 2022 by BritManToo

[IvorBiggun2]

On 8/4/2022 at 3:22 PM, shackleton said:

It is gloom and doom for most countries around the world 

Prices rising for food oil electricity and so on ????

I recall way back in about 1965 2 men talking about the same thing. Always people forecasting doom. Life seems better now than in 1965 but I don't recall hearing anyone praising that fact.

 

 

Edited August 6, 2022 by IvorBiggun2

[starky]

I got 50 rai of rice and cassava plus some banana and other fruit trees. Might get boring nut no food shortage for me. Lol.

[eddysacc]

On 8/8/2022 at 4:22 PM, starky said:

I got 50 rai of rice and cassava plus some banana and other fruit trees. Might get boring nut no food shortage for me. Lol.

How about the fertilizer prices?

There are many stories in the media about fertilizer being too expensive now so fsrmers are not able to make profit with farming.

[Seppius]

When the shelves get stripped of "mama noddles" then you will know we are in trouble

[youreavinalaff]

2 hours ago, eddysacc said:

How about the fertilizer prices?

There are many stories in the media about fertilizer being too expensive now so fsrmers are not able to make profit with farming.

Then they should stop using fertilizer.  For many years now my father in law has been organic. Chicken coops over the rice fields, ducks in the rice fields and fish too. Natural fertilizer being made every day.

[KIngsofisaan]

Rising costs are a fact of life and Thailand is starting to learn that.

 

Between the planting costs and the rice mafia, we don't really make anything farming.

 

Lots of rice for the extended family, however, I foot the planting cost for them every year

 

[eddysacc]

12 hours ago, youreavinalaff said:

Then they should stop using fertilizer.  For many years now my father in law has been organic. Chicken coops over the rice fields, ducks in the rice fields and fish too. Natural fertilizer being made every day.

The media says stopping fertilizers comes with issues. Most land is not suitable for organic or no fertilizers due to poor soil quality.

 

A prominent example might be Sri Lanka which is at the bring of civil unrest due to food shortages.

 

I suppose that farming in Thailand is much more autark than in other countries. 

But then prices of organic fertilizers must go up in price if chemical fertilizers do.

Correct me when I am wrong but fact is that Thailand is importing all it's chemical fertilizers.

 

Is there nobody seeing any upcoming issues here?

 

[youreavinalaff]

3 hours ago, eddysacc said:

But then prices of organic fertilizers must go up in price if chemical fertilizers do.

My father in law does not by organic fertilizer. As I pointed out in my post, he keeps chickens, ducks and fish. Lots of natural fertilizer being created.