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It starts with a CGI treatment of a wheat field on the opening credits, which looks distractingly silly.
This movie is more like a Wheat Thin, possibly underrated, certainly rather bland looking, but somehow much more satisfying and although it comes salty or in low sodium flavors, is surprisingly sweet without a trace of gooeyness.
Some pretty black and white pictures of fruit ripening on the vine and some waving wheat.
I say 20th century Yorkshire but I am very confused as to the time period because characters wear relatively modern clothes , have electricity and have access to tractors but often cut wheat with scythes .
The action sequences are very lively, riveting and exciting; two highlights are a stirring chase between a wheat thresher and a Trans Am in a corn field and a wild lengthy set piece towards the end which starts out as a foot chase and ultimately culminates into a car chase (the whole sequence on a speeding subway train totally smokes).
There is no silo, no wheat field, no big red barn, no big tractor, no livestock.
Countries that specialize in the export of oil, copper, iron ore, wheat, coffee, or other commodities have been booming, but they are highly vulnerable.
After ploughing the land in preparation for winter wheat, however, the farmers slaughtered the cattle because they could not keep them fed throughout the winter, because no fodder was provided.
Mozambique, for example, imports 60% of its wheat consumption, and Egypt imports 50% of its food supplies.
Fortification helps many people at once, because it involves adding nutrients to foods that are widely consumed – such as staples (wheat, rice, oils) or condiments (salt, soy sauce, sugar).
Haiti’s fortification project will focus on enriching wheat flour with iron and folic acid, vegetable oils with vitamin A, and salt with iodine.
A research paper by Stephen Vosti of the University of California, Davis, and colleagues shows that 95% of Haiti’s wheat flour could be fortified for a decade with an investment of just $5.1 million in premixed micronutrients, equipment, and training.
Stephen Vosti of the University of California, Davis and co-authors proposed adding iron and folic acid to wheat flour when it is milled or bagged.
Spending around $5 million over ten years to fortify 95% of wheat flour would prevent annually 140 deaths from neural tube defects and more than 250,000 cases of anemia.
As a result, global corn, wheat, and soybean prices rose in July and August, and remain high.
Since the "green revolution" was beginning, Iraq imported "wonder wheat" from Mexico.
The wheat seeds were thus dressed with methyl mercury and sent to Basra in Iraq's south.
Now so much information is so readily available that the challenge is to sift the wheat from the chaff.
If one piece of land generates twice as much output in terms of bushels of wheat or commercial rent as another, it should naturally be worth double.
The economic boom brought on by soaring global demand for commodities – Argentina is a leading exporter of soy beans, corn, wheat, honey, and limes, for example – resulted from a shift in Argentine farming that pre-dates the Kirchners: the old landholders have given way to operators with managerial skills.
The rapid rise in world prices for all basic food crops – corn, wheat, soybeans, and rice – along with other foods like cooking oils, has been devastating for poor households all over the world.
As a result, many poor countries have turned to the world market to buy cheap rice and wheat, instead of growing their own.
Irrigation has failed or is inadequate in Helmand, Uruzgan, and Kandahar – three of the top five opium-producing provinces – where indebted farmers are hooked by the economics: opium brings in eight times as much cash as wheat and uses less water.
In fact, India – the world’s largest producer of milk and edible oils, and the second-largest producer of wheat, fruits, vegetables, and sugar – produces enough food to combat hunger.
Today, however, with Asia’s giants, India and China, joining the global economy, prices for oil, gold, wheat, and virtually every other commodity are exploding.
For example, the Arab Spring uprisings of 2010-2011, which produced a massive wave of refugees, were triggered by a rise in wheat prices, which led to widespread bread riots that morphed into broader political revolutions.
Foodstuffs like soy, wheat, milk, eggs, mollusks, crustaceans, fish, sesame, nuts, peanuts, and kiwi would likewise be banned, because they can cause food allergies.
An estimated 21 million tons of wheat – equivalent to Australia’s entire annual crop – rots or is eaten by insects, owing to inadequate storage and poor management at the government-run Food Corporation of India (FCI).
The FCI was established in 1964 primarily to implement price-support systems, facilitate nationwide distribution, and maintain buffer stocks of staples like wheat and rice.
Moreover, livestock production consumes one-third of the total water resources used in agriculture (which accounts for 71% of the world’s water consumption), as well as more than 40% of the global output of wheat, rye, oats, and corn.
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