The war involving Ukraine and Russia has already caused wheat and barley shortage in the world now there is a rice shortage.
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Prices have been high for barley and wheat since the war; rice production is falling and driving up prices for more than 3.5 billion people across the globe.
Bad weather in rice-producing economies like China and Pakistan has been a factor in the rice shortage. In the second half of last year, swaths of farmland in the world’s largest rice producer China were plagued by heavy summer monsoon rains and floods.
The accumulated rainfall in the country’s Guangxi and Guangdong provinces, China’s major hubs of rice production, was the second highest in at least 20 years.
Similarly, Pakistan saw annual production plunge 31% year-on-year due to severe flooding last year. The global rice market is set to log its largest shortfall in two decades in 2023.
Rice is the staple food commodity across many markets in Asia, with high prices of rice, particularly for the poorest households causing many to hunger.
Over 9 million people die of starvation yearly, and over 50% are children.
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In addition to tighter supply challenges, rice became an increasingly attractive alternative following the surge in the price of other major grains since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. The resulting rice substitution has driven up demand.
Proverbs 19:17 He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.
Proverbs 28:27 He that giveth unto the poor shall not lack: but he that hideth his eyes shall have many a curse.
1 John 3:17 But whoso hath this world’s good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?
1 John 3:18 My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.
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