India bans wheat exports to deepen global food crisis

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2022/05/14/india-bans-wheat-exports-deepen-global-food-crisis/

by okasaki • 4 years ago

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unmole7• 4 years ago

What an awful headline. It makes it sound like the India banned exports not to control domestic inflation but to deliberately deepen global food prices.

mateo1• 4 years ago

At least they could do "India wheat export bans to deepen global food crisis". The way it is phrased now is ridiculous.

kzrdude• 4 years ago

Depends on how you read it. It's an abbreviated headline format, where important but small words are omitted to have a punchier and shorter headline.

It's common with headlines like "<event> to <effect>". Like "rising interests to cause concern for home owners". I.e it's about causality/effect, not intention.

To make it more explicit, what are the omitted words?

Probably something like "[That] India bans wheat exports [is expected] to deepen [a/the] global food crisis". Or maybe [risks] or [could lead]?

unmole7• 4 years ago

India wheat export bans to deepen global food crisis

Same words but much clearer. The headline as it stands is just sloppy editing.

amriksohata• 4 years ago

my thoughts exactly, the guardian are terrible for this too

dartharva• 4 years ago

Oowee, some totally legit and responsible journalism right here.. no flamebait or sensationalizing at all (◔‿◔)

deadmercury• 4 years ago

Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate. If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it. Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead. If you flag, please don't also comment that you did.
Eschew flamebait. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

nurettin• 4 years ago

this is about the article, not the submission of it.

AlchemistCamp• 4 years ago

Irrelevant. India did not ban wheat exports to deepen the global food crisis. Assuming a supervillain motive is just ridiculous.

Ekaros• 4 years ago

Why do I feel the causation here is the wrong way around.

sofixa• 4 years ago

Completely understandable action, like Indonesia's ban on palm oil exports, the country's people come first.

Terrible for all food importers though. Wars with looting and pillaging (with global impact), famines, social unrest, pandemic. Going off headlines one might think we're a century off.

mlindner4• 4 years ago

I suppose the headline was changed as the current headline is completely fine. Either way this is bad for the world food situation and it's something that India shouldn't do as it's going to cause a knock-on effect where the burden of export will ripple to other countries, who will also want to shut down exports. Eventually resulting in mass starvation for the import-dependent countries.

unmole7• 4 years ago

it's something that India shouldn't do as it's going to cause a knock-on effect where the burden of export will ripple to other countries

Why should the democratically elected government of a country place the interests of other countries before those of its own citizens?

mlindner4• 4 years ago

Because a little harm spread around is a lot less worse than major harm on a very few places. India exists in a globalized world. It's time it learned to adapt to that rather than pretending it's an island.

mih• 4 years ago

Quite a 180, considering only weeks ago the prime minister proclaimed they were ready to feed the world - https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-61138859

unmole7• 4 years ago

The Dear Leader's grand pronouncements should never be taken at face value.

throwoutway• 4 years ago

This is India, not North Korea.

temp_praneshp• 4 years ago

Not a fan of the PM, but the gazette calls out a couple of exceptions, including: "Export will also be allowed on the basis of permission granted by the Government of India to other countries to meet their food security needs and based on the request of their governments"

I presume the list is 0 length right now, and it'll be interesting to see if it ever expands.

rramadass• 4 years ago

The reason is right there in the article! For your edification;

A scorching heatwave has curtailed wheat output in India and domestic prices have soared to an all-time high.

"We were expecting curbs on exports after two to three months, but it seems like the inflation numbers changed the government's mind."

Rising food and energy prices pushed India's annual retail inflation up towards an eight-year high in April, strengthening economists' view that the central bank would have to raise interest rates more aggressively to curb prices.

Wheat prices in India have risen to a record high, in some places as high as 25,000 rupees (£263) per tonne, way above the government's fixed minimum support price of 20,150 rupees.

But a sharp and sudden rise in temperatures in mid-March means the crop size could be smaller than expected at about 100 million tonnes or even lower, a New Delhi-based dealer with a global trading firm told Reuters.

The government had estimated production would hit an all-time high of 111.32 million tonnes.

kylehotchkiss• 4 years ago

As always with this type of news, impossible to find a link back to any sort of government source… does this include atta/maida? Like will Indian diaspora / restaurants be able to get their naan wheat?

Sakos2• 4 years ago

I find it interesting that every one of these articles says they're the second largest wheat producer. Which is a bit misleading. They're "only" the 10th biggest wheat exporter.

timbit42• 4 years ago

How much they produce and how much they export are not the same thing.

Sakos2• 4 years ago

Obviously, but it's being mentioned in the context of global wheat supplies. Only a fraction of India's production is exported and thus relevant for the rest of the world.

unmole7• 4 years ago

Link to the official notification: https://egazette.nic.in/WriteReadData/2022/235784.pdf

da25• 4 years ago

India bans wheat exports amid deepening global food crisis

kinshuk4• 4 years ago

This headlines hides the fact that India will still allow the exports on govt to govt level, in case of deepening crisis faced by other countries.

India bans wheat exports to deepen global food crisis

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