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India bans wheat exports to deepen global food crisis
- unmole 4y agoWhat an awful headline. It makes it sound like the India banned exports not to control domestic inflation but to deliberately deepen global food prices.
- mateo1 4y agoAt least they could do "India wheat export bans to deepen global food crisis". The way it is phrased now is ridiculous.
- kzrdude 4y agoDepends on how you read it. It's an abbreviated headline format, where important but small words are omitted to have a punchier and shorter headline. It's common with headlines like "<event> to <effect>". Like "rising interests to cause concern for home owners". I.e it's about causality/effect, not intention. To make it more explicit, what are the omitted words? Probably something like "[That] India bans wheat exports [is expected] to deepen [a/the] global food crisis". Or maybe [risks] or [could lead]?
- unmole 4y agoIndia wheat export bans to deepen global food crisis Same words but much clearer. The headline as it stands is just sloppy editing.
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- amriksohata 4y agomy thoughts exactly, the guardian are terrible for this too
- dartharva 4y agoOowee, some totally legit and responsible journalism right here.. no flamebait or sensationalizing at all (◔‿◔)
- deadmercury 4y ago> Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate. If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it. Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead. If you flag, please don't also comment that you did. > Eschew flamebait. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- nurettin 4y agothis is about the article, not the submission of it.
- throwmeariver1 4y ago
- AlchemistCamp 4y agoIrrelevant. India did not ban wheat exports to deepen the global food crisis. Assuming a supervillain motive is just ridiculous.
- Ekaros 4y agoWhy do I feel the causation here is the wrong way around.
- sofixa 4y agoCompletely understandable action, like Indonesia's ban on palm oil exports, the country's people come first. Terrible for all food importers though. Wars with looting and pillaging (with global impact), famines, social unrest, pandemic. Going off headlines one might think we're a century off.
- mlindner 4y agoI suppose the headline was changed as the current headline is completely fine. Either way this is bad for the world food situation and it's something that India shouldn't do as it's going to cause a knock-on effect where the burden of export will ripple to other countries, who will also want to shut down exports. Eventually resulting in mass starvation for the import-dependent countries.
- unmole 4y ago> it's something that India shouldn't do as it's going to cause a knock-on effect where the burden of export will ripple to other countries Why should the democratically elected government of a country place the interests of other countries before those of its own citizens?
- mlindner 4y agoBecause a little harm spread around is a lot less worse than major harm on a very few places. India exists in a globalized world. It's time it learned to adapt to that rather than pretending it's an island.
- unmole 4y agoWheat importers are facing high prices, not starvation. The biggest importers like Egypt, Turkey and Indonesia all have significantly higher per capita incomes than India and are better equipped to deal with higher prices. As TFA notes, exports will be allowed to countries that need Indian wheat to meet their food security needs.
- __B_B__ 4y agoWell, you're seeing one of the problems with systems based on consensus expressed in grocery prices now. Refusal to adopt the faith for any reason increases harm exponentially. The notion that, if everyone just went along with things, then they would be better off, is why some people argue that free will doesn't exist and more to the subject matter, it's also why agriculturally productive land has been more and more centralized and industrialized, over the last few decades especially, in the name of creating this giant system of global food distribution which so many are now reliant entirely upon and which has also now just shit the bed.
- mih 4y agoQuite a 180, considering only weeks ago the prime minister proclaimed they were ready to feed the world - https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-61138859 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-61138859
- unmole 4y agoThe Dear Leader's grand pronouncements should never be taken at face value.
- throwoutway 4y agoThis is India, not North Korea.
- unmole 4y agoDear Leader is as Dear Leader does.
- temp_praneshp 4y agoNot a fan of the PM, but the gazette calls out a couple of exceptions, including: "Export will also be allowed on the basis of permission granted by the Government of India to other countries to meet their food security needs and based on the request of their governments" I presume the list is 0 length right now, and it'll be interesting to see if it ever expands.
- naruvimama 4y ago
- rramadass 4y agoThe reason is right there in the article! For your edification; A scorching heatwave has curtailed wheat output in India and domestic prices have soared to an all-time high. "We were expecting curbs on exports after two to three months, but it seems like the inflation numbers changed the government's mind." Rising food and energy prices pushed India's annual retail inflation up towards an eight-year high in April, strengthening economists' view that the central bank would have to raise interest rates more aggressively to curb prices. Wheat prices in India have risen to a record high, in some places as high as 25,000 rupees (£263) per tonne, way above the government's fixed minimum support price of 20,150 rupees. But a sharp and sudden rise in temperatures in mid-March means the crop size could be smaller than expected at about 100 million tonnes or even lower, a New Delhi-based dealer with a global trading firm told Reuters. The government had estimated production would hit an all-time high of 111.32 million tonnes.
- kylehotchkiss 4y agoAs always with this type of news, impossible to find a link back to any sort of government source… does this include atta/maida? Like will Indian diaspora / restaurants be able to get their naan wheat?
- Sakos 4y agoI find it interesting that every one of these articles says they're the second largest wheat producer. Which is a bit misleading. They're "only" the 10th biggest wheat exporter.
- Proven 4y ago
- unmole 4y agoLink to the official notification: https://egazette.nic.in/WriteReadData/2022/235784.pdf https://egazette.nic.in/WriteReadData/2022/235784.pdf
- da25 4y agoIndia bans wheat exports amid deepening global food crisis
- kinshuk4 4y agoThis headlines hides the fact that India will still allow the exports on govt to govt level, in case of deepening crisis faced by other countries.