The Argentines own the most fertile land in South America, the Pampas, which is rich in corn, wheat, peanuts, soybeans, and sunflowers, and produces enough crops to consume ten times the Argentine population. The Pampas was once an important producer of beef and milk from all over the world, and was known as the milk capital of the world. However, the land of abundance has now become a milk importer, and it is no longer even self-sufficient in food.
It all started with the conspiracy of the United States.
First, genetically modified soybeans invaded ArgentinaAmericasReduced toAmerica's backyard
In 1996, genetically modified soybean seeds from the United States were authorized by Argentina. At first, the Americans gave genetically modified soybean seeds to local farmers in Argentina for free, encouraged local farmers to grow soybeans, and announced that Argentine farmers would not have to pay royalties for seeds. The soybean produced by the genetically modified soybean seeds in the United States has a higher yield than the soybeans grown from ordinary seeds, and the oil yield is about 30% higher than that of the general soybeans. The seeds are free, and the yield is high, which is simply a huge profit. Argentine farmers happily switched to using genetically modified soybean seeds from the United States to grow soybeans. The original corn, wheat, peanuts, etc. are all gone.
However,Free stuff tends to be the most expensive. Before the food war was launched, Argentina already had no seeds to sprout! Genetically modified soybean seeds can only be used onceBecause of genetic modification, soybeans grown with genetically modified soybean seeds do not have the ability to reproduce and cannot be replanted as seeds, and Argentina has to ask the Americans for soybean seeds every year.
In 1971, 370,000 hectares of U.S. soybeans were planted in Argentina. In 1996, U.S. genetically modified soybeans were authorized to enter Argentina. In 2001, 9.8 million kilograms of soybeans were planted in Argentina, close to 40 per cent of Argentina's arable land. In 2001, an economic crisis broke out in Argentina, which required a large amount of foreign exchange to buy daily necessities for production and life internationally, especially fertilizers and pesticides. Soybeans, which account for 40% of Argentina's planted area, have been a lifesaver. Argentina continues to expand its soybean planting area, exporting a large number of soybeans, and the demand for genetically modified soybean seeds in the United States, which does not charge royalties, has further increased.
However, Argentina is still too young, when have Americans ever spoken? In 2005, the United States abruptly withdrew its commitment to require all seeds and soybeans exported by Argentina to pay royalties to the United States. The United States went to the European Union and told European countries, "You have to pay me patent fees for importing soybeans from Argentina, why do you have to pay them?" Because Argentina refused to pay, I came to you to collect it, and the EU didn't listen to it, so why should we pay the money that Argentina wants to pay. The United States said that if you really don't want to pay it, you EU don't import Argentine soybeans, don't you think our soybeans are also very good? Argentina's seeds are still imported from me, but there are more than 100,000 American thugs at home, and the European Union is short of breath, so it has no choice but to reduce imports of Argentine soybeans. At the same time, the United States is no longer selling soybean seeds to Argentina, soybeans cannot be sold, new seeds cannot be bought next year, there is too little arable land to grow other crops, and there is not enough food to eat. On the one hand, there was no money to buy basic living and production materials, and on the other hand, there was not enough food to eat, and Argentina, which could not buy food, fell into a dilemma, and in the face of domestic and foreign pressure, Argentina had to obediently pay patent fees to the United States.
From 1996 to the present, with the increasing soybean planting area in Argentina, the output of other grains is getting lower and lower, and the number of dairy cows is getting smaller and smaller, after 2000, the milk production of dairy cows in Argentina has been unable to meet domestic demand, and the milk source capital of the world has become a milk importer. As of 2020, Argentina's soybean sowing area exceeded 18 million kilograms, accounting for 70% of Argentina's arable area. The Argentine soybean industry is also completely monopolized by the United States, and at the same time, because the area of crops such as wheat and corn in Argentina has declined, rice, flour and other grains have begun to soar, and even developed to the point where they need to import grain, and the remaining 30% of the arable land is not enough to make Argentina self-sufficient in grain production. The Pampas Eagle is also going to eat. Food cannot be controlled on its own, and the eagle soaring over the Pampas has become a pet eagle.
Second,Food aid isCommonly usedDiplomacyFood sanctionsIt's also commonplace
After the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, the United States imposed a comprehensive embargo on China, including a grain embargo, in the hope of containing China's development. From 1965 to 1967, due to India's opposition to the U.S. invasion of Vietnam, Johnson adopted a policy of restricting grain exports to India and forced India to support the United States. In 1970, Salvador Allende was elected Chile**, and the United States stopped food aid to Chile because of his Marxist status. Immediately after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1980-1981, the United States imposed an embargo on the Soviet Union. According to a report by the US Intelligence Agency, the lack of food in third world countries has given the United States an unprecedented strength, and Washington actually has the right to kill and kill the vast number of people who lack food.
Why can the United States influence and control other countries through food? Don't other countries know the importance of food?
Some countries really don't understand, and many more are powerless. The United States produces 1 5 percent of the world's grain and is the world's largest exporter of crop products, exporting more than 1 percent of its grain annually500 million tons, of which soybean exports account for 37% of the world's total exports. Maize accounts for 47 per cent of the world's total exports, and wheat exports account for 22 per cent of the world's total exports. In 2019, the total grain production of the United States reached 500 million tons, and the total grain output of China reached 6600 million tons, but the United States has less than 1 4 of China's population, and the United States has the largest cultivated land area in the world, with a total of 2.8 billion mu, and we are still sticking to the red line of 1.8 billion mu of cultivated land. The plains of the United States account for most of the country's area, and the land is vast and sparsely populated, which is very suitable for large-scale planting, while China's arable land is generally fragmented, making it difficult to form a scale advantage, reduce costs, and increase yields.
In addition to its geographical advantages, the United States also has a super advantage, the United States controls the world's food **,There are four super large grain merchants in the world, known as the four major grain merchants of ABCD, namely ADM of the United States, Bunge of the United States, Cargill of the United States, and Louis Dreyfus Company of France, which are called the four major grain merchants in the industry. These four super-grain merchants once controlled more than 80% of the world's grain**.
Of the more than 200 countries in the world, only 32 countries are self-sufficient in food, and only six countries have the capacity for foreign aid, namely the United States, Australia, China, Brazil, Argentina and New Zealand, of which the United States is the only country that is completely self-sufficient.
The four major grain merchants occupy a leading position in all aspects of seed selection, cultivation, pesticides, output, storage, transportation, etc., and adopt the integration model of agricultural materials plus farm and terminal to control every link from farm to table. When aiding or selling food to food-deficit countries, the self-sufficient food production systems of these countries are destroyed, and the agriculture of these countries is geneticized, chemicalized and mechanized. Isn't it much cheaper to control other countries by controlling food ** than sending troops to occupy them?
After China's accession to the WTO, the United States again drummed up its grain
Third, the four major grain merchants have started a grain war
Export their core product, soybeans, cheaply. Because of the advantages of technology and intensive large-farm production, soybeans in the United States are nearly 15% cheaper than soybeans in the Northeast. Not only that, because the important value of soybeans is used to extract oil, and the oil yield of American soybeans is nearly 15% higher than that of Northeast soybeans, which is both cheap and good, and soon, American soybean seeds grabbed a large market in China. This time. Due to the rapid development of China's economy and the improvement of people's living standards, China's oil crushing industry has developed rapidly, and the country has hundreds of large-scale oil crushing enterprises, almost all of which prefer to use American soybeans as raw materials. As a result, the Chinese market quickly became dependent on U.S. soybeans, from farmers to oil crushers.
Seeing China slowly walking into the trap,Four major grain merchantsLaughedNextDeploymentnowof the chain meter
First of allIn 2002, it was announced that there would be a significant increase in soybean production in the United States**Will dive significantly to 2,200 yuan per ton。As a result, Chinese oil millers have rushed to increase purchase orders and further cut their soybean seed plans. All oil crushing companies have made their production plans bigger. However, in 2003, the U.S. Department of Agriculture suddenly announced that due to various reasons such as weather, soybean production not only did not increase, but also decreased. As soon as the news came out, we were dumbfounded. And the **whooshing** of U.S. soybeans will soon reach 4,300 yuan per ton, and Wall Street also said that it is estimated that it will soon rise to 6,000 yuan per ton. It can't be done anymore because all the plans are done. There are not so many local soybeans, if there is no soybean seed crushing oil company in the United States, there will be no soybean oil extraction, the upstream and downstream ** chain will be affected, the relevant production line will be suspended, and the company will face huge losses. So there was no way, we reluctantly signed a contract to purchase U.S. soybeans according to the ** of 4,400 yuan per ton, and due to the U.S. propaganda of soybean production reduction, all procurement contracts were paid with high margins.
After the contract was signed, the USDA came out again, sorry, we got it wrong last year, and the soybean production was not reducedIt's a bumper harvestAs soon as the news came out, the international soybean ** was immediately cut in half, from 4400 yuan to 2200 yuan. It is precisely because of this change that China's edible oil industry and most of the domestic soybean processing enterprises have almost completely died. Because foreign companies buy soybeans at a market price of 2,200 yuan a ton, and soybean oil is only sold for 3,000 yuan, how can China's soybean processing companies compete with foreign companies? This has led to a large-scale shutdown and closure of domestic soybean processing and oil extraction enterprises.
Wall Street and USDAScenesIt's over, it's the turn of ABCD4 big grain merchants
The big four grain companies took advantage of the collapse of China's domestic soybean processing companies to enter China for a frenzied M&A. Since then, China's oil crushing industry has been controlled by foreign capital, monopolizing nearly 70%, and the ultimate controller of famous soybean oil brands such as Arowana is ADM. Having tasted the sweetness, the United States wants to go one step further and completely control China's life.
The opportunity will come soon, but this time China has already prepared and is waiting for you.
Fourth, the central grain storage array invites you to enter the urn
Since 2005, there has been a global food shortage. International food prices begin**International wheat** rose from 300 cents in 2005 to 1,330 cents in '08. When international grain prices skyrocketed, domestic grain prices also began to rise, ABCD4 major grain merchants took the opportunity to speculate on grain prices in China, in order to completely monopolize China's grain industry, the specific method is: crazy purchase of grain on the Chinese market, causing a panic psychology of food shortage, giving people an illusion, if you don't buy it, it's gone. The more crazy the four major grain merchants are to purchase, the more ordinary people feel that they are short of grain, so everyone will rush to buy together, and the first grain will start to rise wildly, and when the four major grain merchants will purchase all the grain, they will monopolize the sales channels of grain, hoard, and sell, on the one hand, they will make a lot of money, and on the other hand, they will destroy China's local grain channels.
However, China at this time is no longer the China of five years ago, it is a trench and a wise man, and the central grain reserves have hoarded a lot of grain on weekdays, just waiting for the disaster year to meet the season. At that time, international food prices rose by 34 times, domestic food prices have only risen by 07 times. Seeing that the four major grain merchants are about to move, they have begun to hoard Juqi, and the grain reserves have squeezed out big moves to throw away the reserves.
The Big Four grain merchants control 80 percent of the world's grainNow sitting in the village together, they can't afford to raise China's grain prices, and the four major ABCD grain merchants are on the bar with China。Since the grain reserves are dumped, the four major grain merchants will all buy them, and when your reserves are gone, the grain will be natural. The four major grain merchants bought grain when they saw it, in order to buy up China's reserves and raise the grain.
However, the bottomless grain reserves in the middle of the grain reserves, I will throw away as much as you buy, and you will continueBuy, I continued to throw, making the four major grain merchants dumbfounded. At the beginning, the grain reserves were sold once every half a month, but the effect of suppressing grain prices was not ideal, and grain prices were still fast. The grain reserves were further accelerated, and then they were thrown once a week, and then even once a day. Even the four major grain merchants who monopolize the world's grain ** always have limited money in their hands, and when they see the posture of the grain reserves, they finally began to panic and became hesitant to buy grain.
How much grain is there in the grain reserves? The four major grain merchants have no bottom in their hearts. At that time, the prime minister announced that China's grain reserves were 100 million tons, enough for the people of the whole country to eat for a year. The psychological defense of the four major grain merchants has finally collapsed. In this battle for grain, the funds of the four major grain merchants are almost bottoming out, but the grain reserves are as stable as Mount Tai. In the end, the four major grain merchants could no longer hold on, and returned home with a loss. And the grain bags of the Chinese were not only saved, but also because of the large-scale purchase of the four major grain merchants, the grain reserves of the central grain reserve were sold at a good price and made a lot of money.
The people take food as the sky and have experienced it04 to 08After two years of grain struggle, China is fully aware of the importance of food security。Since 08, China has strengthened the reserves of soybeans, soybean oil, sugar, cotton and other cash crops, planned to gradually improve the protection of agricultural product purchases, and supported state-owned enterprises to enter the terminal market to compete with the four major grain merchants. China has not only established a self-protection mechanism, but also helped farmers in other countries to grow agricultural products that China needs, so as to prevent the United States from controlling the grain industry of other countries and thus threatening China's food security from the outside. In recent years, the prices of various commodities have been in the first place, and only grain has remained stable. The Chinese are always well protected by the bravest among them, and the grain storage has always protected the grain bags of the Chinese, and no one wants to let the Chinese starve again.