High prices, high production.
SANTO DOMINGO.- President Leonel Fernandez yesterday designated a commission of officials to analyze and present a proposal to solve the rise in prices of most agricultural and industrialized products.
Hacienda minister Vicente Bengoa said at 11 a.m. Thursday the commission will present the agent chief executive with a concrete plan to confront the increases. The official, who attributed the rises to external effects, didn’t discard a subsidy among the suggestions. "We’ll see, it’s possible."
With this measure, the government seeks to prevent price increases in the basic articles which would lead to social upheaval similar to last week’s events in neighboring Haiti, which reports say left five deaths.
"This (to try to stabilize prices) is something that has nothing to do with the electoral process, it’s something that we were doing and we’re going to continue doing beyond May 16," said Bengoa.
The strongest efforts will be in the area of foods, which according to the Central Bank posted rises of 1.71 percent last March, especially rice, chicken, eggs and powdered milk, considered Dominican staples.
The price of medicines, cement and rebar has also increased.
Last Monday Industry and Commerce minister Melanio Paredes announced that the Consumer Defense Law will be applied to price gougers.
That day Agriculture minister Salvador Jimenez also discarded the possibility of a food crisis taking place "because an increase in all agricultural products exists in the country."
However, business leaders have warned on the danger of a food shortage affecting the country and have demanded a government a plan to produce food.
Written by: josean, 16 Apr 2008 8:03 AM
From: United States
The hypocrisy:
"This (to try to stabilize prices) is something that has nothing to do with the electoral process, it’s something that we were doing and we’re going to continue doing beyond May 16," said Bengoa.
Yea right!
Before the election we are Socialist after the election we are Capitalist.
Written by: josean, 16 Apr 2008 8:25 AM
From: United States
Now be careful, to some here at DT that photo might be interpreted as a subliminal message.
After all the sacks are White and not Purple and the tubers inside are Red!
From: Dominican Republic
How about eliminating the 16% impuestos? would that help?
From: United States
How bout planting more and mechanizing the Agro industry and stop importing food we can grow ourselves. How bout using solar energy rather than ethanol, that takes too much soil to produce. How bout socializing the economy and more government intervention in the form of price regulations....
Written by: josean, 16 Apr 2008 12:43 PM
From: United States
Written by: BLANCO, 16 Apr 2008 1:10 PM
From: Dominican Republic
with rising cost of energy, fuel..transport an increase is inevitible.. we are also seeing the result of the idiot decision of the taveras dam incident of december
Written by: Belial, 17 Apr 2008 11:52 AM
From: United States, Texas
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva yesterday denied that "biofuels" contributes to either food scarcity or rising global food prices.
Brazil is the world's leading exporter of ethanol [the main "biofuel"], and the world's No. 2 producer after the United States. Brazil makes the "biofuel" from sugar cane, as opposed to the corn-based ethanol that dominates U.S. production.
Lula argues that, rather than "biofuels," it is government farm subsidies by the regimes in developed capitalist and imperialist countries that chiefly cause food scarcity and rising global food prices by the destruction, under the terms of stupid free trade agreements, of much of the farm base and harvests in less developed capitalist countries, like Mexico and Dominican Republic, which can't compete against the subsidized farm exports of the big capitalists countries.
Lula is partly right about subsidies, but he's wrong about the "biofuels" because they also contribute to the food crisis.
Written by: Belial, 17 Apr 2008 12:05 PM
From: United States, Texas
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Two days ago, the UN Food and Agricultural Organization issued a report that found that the sudden, totally unannounced, and abrubt diversion ... without the least warning ... of something like a third of the world corn harvest by the developed capitalist countries to fuel production is a "crime against humanity."
The implication of the rather timid FAO report is that the social and animalistic scum that rules the United States could have least given humanity some indication of its intention and of its imperial puppets, like Canada, to make such a massive diversion of corn from the world food supply so that humanity could have tried at least to make preparations for the increased scarcity of food.
Written by: Belial, 17 Apr 2008 12:22 PM
From: United States, Texas
P.3
Now, we understand the terms of the deal that Lula and Bush made early last year.
Lula would defend the US diversion of corn from the global food supply under the cover of a "biofuel."
The imperial scum which rules the United States lacks the credibility to defend itself; so, the US ruling scum enlisted Lula as its spokeperson.
Nobody contends that sugar ethanol, a "biofuel," increases worldwide famine.
But humanity knows that the greatly increased production of corn ethanol, also a "biofuel," increases worldwide famine.
Lula's sophistry goes something like this "Because the Brazil-favored sugar ethanol is a 'biofuel'and, by common consent, sugar ethanol doesn't increase food prices, the US-favored corn ethanol, which is also a "biofuel," can't increase food prices even if the diversion of corn from the world food supply is massive.
There has always been something of imperial "ho" in Lula.
Written by: Belial, 17 Apr 2008 12:34 PM
From: United States, Texas
FAO Warns of Threat to World Stability
Berlin, Apr 16 (Prensa Latina) The conflicts originated by the food crisis will create national catastrophes at the affected countries and threaten to spread world wide, warned Jacques Diouf, director the UN Food and Agriculture Organization.
In statements from Hamburg, Germany, Diouf called for larger fund allocation to give the poorest countries access to staple food whose prices are growing non stop.
The UN official reminded that development aid to farmers were halved from 1992 to 2000 and although the Earth can feed all of mankind, if the current trend persists, "we are heading to catastrophe." Diouf latest forecast for the food price hike were social outbreaks that can be avoided if the world leaders adopt urgent measures.
http://www.fao.org/newsroom/en/news/2008/1000826/index.htmlooo
The developed capitalist countries, led by the scum that rules the US, have deliberately decided to starve half a billion people to death.
From: Brazil
USA makes corn-based ethanol, dragging corn from food. USA wrongly directed corn consumption, is really to be blamed on part the food crisis.
However, quite differently, Brazil produces sugarcane-based ethanol, which DOES NOT take ANYTHING like edible grains necessary to feed human beings.
Therefore, brazilian sugarcane-based ethanol IS NOT to be blamed by grain-food crisis.
Furthermore, preventing the world from producing grains, European subsidies given to their own inefficient agriculture, wastes astronomic 327 billion euro/year, producing catastrofic consequences.
That's a HUGE factor, which impacts grain-based world food production to the point of crippling it down.
Besides, oil brings an average impact of 30% to grain based food.
Meanwhile, biofuels takes only 3% of grain price composition, due to corn consumption to p
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"This (to try to stabilize prices) is something that has nothing to do with the electoral process, it’s something that we were doing and we’re going to continue doing beyond May 16," said Bengoa.
Yea right!
Before the election we are Socialist after the election we are Capitalist.
Now be careful, to some here at DT that photo might be interpreted as a subliminal message.
After all the sacks are White and not Purple and the tubers inside are Red!
How bout planting more and mechanizing the Agro industry and stop importing food we can grow ourselves. How bout using solar energy rather than ethanol, that takes too much soil to produce. How bout socializing the economy and more government intervention in the form of price regulations....
http://www3.diariolibre.com/noticias_det.php?id=12670
Brazil is the world's leading exporter of ethanol [the main "biofuel"], and the world's No. 2 producer after the United States. Brazil makes the "biofuel" from sugar cane, as opposed to the corn-based ethanol that dominates U.S. production.
Lula argues that, rather than "biofuels," it is government farm subsidies by the regimes in developed capitalist and imperialist countries that chiefly cause food scarcity and rising global food prices by the destruction, under the terms of stupid free trade agreements, of much of the farm base and harvests in less developed capitalist countries, like Mexico and Dominican Republic, which can't compete against the subsidized farm exports of the big capitalists countries.
Lula is partly right about subsidies, but he's wrong about the "biofuels" because they also contribute to the food crisis.
Two days ago, the UN Food and Agricultural Organization issued a report that found that the sudden, totally unannounced, and abrubt diversion ... without the least warning ... of something like a third of the world corn harvest by the developed capitalist countries to fuel production is a "crime against humanity."
The implication of the rather timid FAO report is that the social and animalistic scum that rules the United States could have least given humanity some indication of its intention and of its imperial puppets, like Canada, to make such a massive diversion of corn from the world food supply so that humanity could have tried at least to make preparations for the increased scarcity of food.
Now, we understand the terms of the deal that Lula and Bush made early last year.
Lula would defend the US diversion of corn from the global food supply under the cover of a "biofuel."
The imperial scum which rules the United States lacks the credibility to defend itself; so, the US ruling scum enlisted Lula as its spokeperson.
Nobody contends that sugar ethanol, a "biofuel," increases worldwide famine.
But humanity knows that the greatly increased production of corn ethanol, also a "biofuel," increases worldwide famine.
Lula's sophistry goes something like this "Because the Brazil-favored sugar ethanol is a 'biofuel'and, by common consent, sugar ethanol doesn't increase food prices, the US-favored corn ethanol, which is also a "biofuel," can't increase food prices even if the diversion of corn from the world food supply is massive.
There has always been something of imperial "ho" in Lula.
Berlin, Apr 16 (Prensa Latina) The conflicts originated by the food crisis will create national catastrophes at the affected countries and threaten to spread world wide, warned Jacques Diouf, director the UN Food and Agriculture Organization.
In statements from Hamburg, Germany, Diouf called for larger fund allocation to give the poorest countries access to staple food whose prices are growing non stop.
The UN official reminded that development aid to farmers were halved from 1992 to 2000 and although the Earth can feed all of mankind, if the current trend persists, "we are heading to catastrophe." Diouf latest forecast for the food price hike were social outbreaks that can be avoided if the world leaders adopt urgent measures.
http://www.fao.org/newsroom/en/news/2008/1000826/index.html
ooo
The developed capitalist countries, led by the scum that rules the US, have deliberately decided to starve half a billion people to death.
However, quite differently, Brazil produces sugarcane-based ethanol, which DOES NOT take ANYTHING like edible grains necessary to feed human beings.
Therefore, brazilian sugarcane-based ethanol IS NOT to be blamed by grain-food crisis.
Furthermore, preventing the world from producing grains, European subsidies given to their own inefficient agriculture, wastes astronomic 327 billion euro/year, producing catastrofic consequences.
That's a HUGE factor, which impacts grain-based world food production to the point of crippling it down.
Besides, oil brings an average impact of 30% to grain based food.
Meanwhile, biofuels takes only 3% of grain price composition, due to corn consumption to p