Because China is grabbing more than half of the world's reserves of wheat, corn and rice

Rising prices of raw materials: price increases for consumers and difficulties for countries that eat mainly cereals

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China is securing half of the world's reserves of wheat, rice and maize (especially for livestock feed) on a global scale. This is what will happen by the first half of 2022. The data provided by the United States Department of Agriculture corroborates this concern: China should be able to secure 69% of the world maize reserves in the first half of the agricultural year 2022 but also the 60% of rice and 51% of wheat on a global scale.

The data collected also made it possible to trace a trend that shows how the eastern country, for some time, has gradually begun to accumulate wheat with an increase of about 20 percentage points in 10 years. It has been calculated that Chinese imports of soy, corn and wheat have increased from two to twelve over the past five years, as a result of an extensive purchasing policy in the United States, Brazil and other countries, while those of beef, pork, dairy products and fruit grew two to five times. Furthermore, the data provided by the General Administration of Chinese Customs show that in 2020 98,1 billion dollars were spent just to import food, excluding drinks from this monstrous figure.

Food security and geopolitics: if on the one hand we want to try to calm the danger of possible riots, especially in more rural areas, and thus guarantee continuity in food availability in the vast eastern country, on the other hand the international geopolitical experts are wondering how much this aggression is the result of tensions in relations between China and countries such as the USA and Australia, to name a few.

Certainly this mad rush to accumulate has already produced a significant increase in the cost of food raw materials all over the world. + 2020%, vegetable oils, sugar and cereals. In particular for cereals, always in the same period under examination, a 2021% increase in prices is certified.

The picture outlined so far has a further devastating domino effect that could lead to famines and food imbalances, especially among populations that use cereals as the basis of their food sustenance.

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Sources: Coldiretti; Fao Food Price Index,