Thirsty for food

Planning to give your friends, a party at a newly opened hotel joint in your vicinity? Well we need to rethink!! I am sure by now that each one of you would have heard of the rising food prices and the ladies in the house cutting down on making new recipes and the dal fry you had thrice a week is now made only once a week ,all thanks to the prices of dal being sky high. How will the middle class families survive? Forget about the people below the poverty line.
We all have the right to clean and proper food but how can one afford all this at such hiked rates? Just go to a vegetable vendor and the daily necessities in the kitchen like tomatoes, cabbage, green peas, onion, potatoes have become double the prices, the tomatoes which were previously Rs 12 per half a kg is now for Rs.20. The situation is only going from bad to worse. The person who used to have his lunch at hotels now may opt may bring the lunch from home or consume junk food from a roadside vendor as that food is cheaper and fits into the common man’s pocket. The common thali which was Rs.30 per plate now costs Rs.40. The tea, coffee stalls which gave the cutting chai for Rs.4 now charges Rs.7-8 as a result of the rise in sugar prices . Also there’s no option left with the hotels and restaurants as it would be even hard for them to drive their business with the rise in the basic food items and so they will obviously put forward this burden on us ,ultimately it all boils down to the common man suffering .
Food prices are on a exponential rise right since the year 2000 but recently year 2008 has seen a big loop in this whole process. Also the weather being uncertain there are no proper rains posing threat to farmers also encouraging them to ultimately give up their lives and committing suicides. The poor countries in the world will be the most affected as the poor countrymen’s ability to buy food will be undermined. There’s a noticeable rise in the amounts of deaths happening in the country due to starvation. The whole demand and supply curve indicates that there will be no correction in this price hike for at least a decade or more. The countries like India and China whose population is increasing by leaps and bounds every single day, their need for meat and dairy products will rise too. There are several places where farmers neither have access to proper farming facilities, irrigation nor they can feed their own families.
If all this continues, like the food riots breaking out in many parts of the world due to the soaring prices, forget fuel , world food crisis will be the question of worrying for many of us. How can one eradicate this thirst for hunger? World can provide food to all .It just needs a well maintained balance between the food importers and exporters , government providing farmers with necessary knowledge and investing in research to boost the productivity of the crops.
Forget about the recession. There’s more to this. We should pay attention to a man’s basic needs. i.e the roti, kapda and makaan, i.e. food, clothing and shelter.