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...Elections are around the corner, and if all these people go and sit around Delhi, the national capital, the government has to do something to resolve this,” said RS Khatra, a farmer and retired Indian army officer...
...Dwindling supplies from the warehouses had enabled hot meals to be delivered from central kitchens, along with wheat flour and tinned food to keep at least 1mn people fed, the UN said....
...Roden’s chicken with bulgar wheat is an absolute delight. Now I am gearing up for a period in which fresh fruit, vegetables and water are all in short supply....
...“It would be good if empty boats also came to pick up cargos,” said Oleksandr Myronenko, chief operating officer of Metinvest, Ukraine’s largest steel producer, which has sailed three boats out through the...
...Above wheat fields in one direction and sunflower slopes in another, the skyline of this gusty tip of southern Spain is a panorama of spinning blades....
...asked Vasilis Patsialis, a large wheat and cotton producer based in the western Thessaly town of Karditsa. That feeling of helplessness is echoed throughout the region....
...UNRWA, the main UN agency providing relief in the territory, said thousands of desperate Palestinians were breaking into its warehouses to seize wheat flour and other staples, in a sign that civil order...
...Conditions at the hospital were “terrible”, said Gabriel Naumann, Médecins Sans Frontières’ advocacy officer in Jerusalem....
...But Doug King, chief investment officer at RCMA Asset Management, said he was not convinced the rally would take the price much higher....
...Prices of wheat, grains and vegetables all rose rapidly, and fertilisers were central to the turmoil....
...Surrounded by corn and wheat fields, the building overlooks a vast wind farm at the border with Belgium....
...“We think we are probably past peak inflation but not past peak pricing,” said Graeme Pitkethly, chief financial officer....
...Emiko TerazonoRussia is the world’s largest exporter of wheat, and the fear was that the war would also mean that Russian wheat and also fertiliser would stop flowing out of the country....
...It was widely hailed as a great triumph for the industry, but to Sanghera and his chief technology officer Clive Brown who had helped build Solexa, it was a sellout....
...Across ports in Germany, the Netherlands and other countries, vast amounts of Russian fertiliser is stuck on ships or in cargo yards, as customs officers are reluctant to clear the shipments....
...That would allow wheat fields to grow more wheat next year, filling some of the gap left by Ukraine and Russia....
...Bill Gates, the philanthropist and Microsoft co-founder, flagged similar concerns this week, saying that the reduction in supplies of wheat, edible oils and other foods caused by the war in Ukraine was “...
...Australia, alongside its allies, has applied sanctions on Russian politicians, army officers and mercenaries, defence companies and banks in the past two days and said on Friday it would extend its sanctions...
...Although wheat prices have soared following the war, Kellogg said it had identified new sources for certain ingredients and expected to keep up with consumer demand....
...Since the war in Ukraine, wheat and corn prices have jumped 41 per cent and 28 cent respectively, as Russia and Ukraine combined represent about 30 per cent of global wheat exports....
...Black Sea wheat has historically been particularly important in north Africa and the Middle East....
...But sharp increases in the cost of grain as a result of the conflict in Ukraine — a major supplier of the world’s wheat — and hikes in energy and labour costs have forced many to charge more for food and...
...In agriculture, it has been shorting sugar and cocoa for some time, and has recently taken small short positions in wheat....
...However, the removal of the ultra-low-cost financing that was long available to companies is starting to separate the wheat from the chaff....
...Poland will expel 45 Russian diplomats following a request from the country’s internal security agency that said they were officers of Russia’s special services and people linked to them....
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