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Inflation on food goods.

Introduction. 

"Inflation means overall increase in prices".

"Inflation is a endure increases in the general price level of goods and services in an economy over a time period".

Food is the basic need and right of all the human beings. It is the responsibility of a state to provide the masses with food and other basic needs. Here we are discussing about inflation on food goods in the years of 2002 to 2008. In Pakistan Inflationary rate is very high from last years.Pakistan is an agricultural country.

Where the basic necessities and needs of the people focus their energies towards the improvement of the country. But, the people entangled in the crises of basic commodities of life are indifferent of the progress of the country. Along with other crises, Pakistan also suffers from food crisis which is quite unfortunate and shocking.















People have to stand in lines for 2 or 3 hours for getting a bag of flour sugar etc. Sugar is getting out of their reach. It is quite unbelievable for an agriculture country like ours to face the shortages in food commodities like wheat, rice, sugar, vegetables etc. Recent floods also gave a serious blow to our agriculture sector and inflationary rate grow higher. Land related problems, water mismanagement, use of low quality seed and lake of modern tools  are playing havoc with our precious sector of agriculture and causing food crisis.Inflation rate in Pakistan is 13%.BY the high inflationary rate wheat, sugar, tea, eggs, medicines, petrol, electricity etc items are effected. Price of flour bag in Pakistan are 800. Price of one kg sugar is 70 which was Rs. 25 in 2008. Vegetables prices are also increased in Pakistan.price of one dozen eggs are 120 that was 60 in 2008.
Food inflation is fleeter.There are fluctuation  in agricultural prices because demand and supply are both inelastic and supply can differs due to the weather. However, nevertheless the general fleeter, food prices seem to be showing a strong upward movement, reaching record highs in recent years.

 

Food inflation means continues or continuous increase in price of food, and it can happen because of decrease in the production of food and increase in the demand of food.

Food Inflation in Pakistan decreased to -1.05 percent in April of 2015 from -0.48 percent in March of 2015. Food Inflation in Pakistan averaged 7.06 percent from 2011 until 2015, reaching an all time high of 12.99 percent in November of 2013 and a record low of -1.05 percent in April of 2015. Food Inflation in Pakistan is reported by the Bureau of Statistics.

When the prices of food goods increase it effects the life of poor people. Rich people have lot of money they can easily buy them. It does not effect their life's. According to a report 10% people in Pakistan Die due to food inflation they can not buy the food due to high prices of goods.


 Further on in the project you will read and get more understanding of each particular heading on "Food Prices Rising".

 Causes of food Inflation in Pakistan.

1. One of the biggest causes for the birth of inflation is when the people make more use of the goods. When the people use more goods then eventually the demand in the market mounts up and they increases the rates as well.
2. Secondly the main cause has also been connected with the production of the goods as well. When the factories and food production firm's gets on the strike then the market shop owners take benefit from the strike and increase the prices as compare to the factory rates.
3. In addition, when person became rich and he demands for more food and clothing supplies then eventually the rates get increase in the market. it is the rule of the market that the more people purchase the more it rates will get increase in the market.
4. Most of the times the Government even plays a very increasing the inflation rates as well. When they get much interested to fill their bank accounts they raise the market rates that surely make the people more frustrated as well.        

Solutions of Food inflation:

1. 
   Well there is no such hope that inflation will ever be reduced in Pakistan but still we can control it by carrying out some measures and precautionary steps.
2. As the Government carry out the printing of the new notes it also increases the salaries of the workers as well. If the Government control themselves with the stoppage of the new currency notes then it might be possible that the inflation would stop.
3. Moreover  as we mentioned that the shop owners take the factory strikes but the people of  Pakistan should be knowing the existing markets rates.

Agriculture in Pakistan:

Pakistan's principal natural resources are arable land and water. In Pakistan, the most agricultural province is Punjab where wheat and cotton are the most grown. Mango orchards are mostly found in Sindh and Punjab provinces that make Pakistan the world's 4th largest producer of mangoes.Agriculture is the largest sector in the Pakistan economy and accounts for 24% of gross domestic product (GDP). Government figures show that average growth in the sector during the past five years has been 4.6% per annum and, in 1998, a growth rate of 5.9% was a major contributor to the overall GDP growth rate of 5.4%. Approximately 70% of Pakistan's foreign exchange earnings come from the sale of agricultural products (such as cotton, rice, fruits and vegetables etc) and this has stimulated demand for the provision of raw materials, equipment (mostly second hand) and services to agro-based industries, mainly in the cotton textile industry which is the largest industrial sub-sector in the country. The sector is also the largest source of employment and accounts for over 50% of Pakistan's labour force - nearly 2 million new jobs have been added since 1995 of which 70% are estimated to be in rural areas.
The present and previous Government from time to time has introduced a range of incentives to enable farmers to boost production and increase output by allowing Foreign Direct Investment in the agricultural sector. New targets have been set for different crops for the year 2000-2001 with special emphasis on cotton crop which is estimated at 9.7 million bales of cotton, 51. 6 million tonnes of sugarcane, 5.1 million tonnes of rice, 1.5 million tonnes of maize and 22 million tonnes of wheat during the said period.
In the foreign trade, it is agriculture, which dominates through exports of raw commodities like rice, cotton and fruits, semi processed and processed products like cotton yarn, cloth, carpets and leather products. Of the total export earnings of Rs 387.2 billion in 1998 - 99, the earnings from export of rice and cotton alone amounted to Rs 26.3 billion or 7 percent of the total exports.
Import of agricultural commodities contributes substantially to total Pakistan imports. The major agricultural import categories are edible oils and grains, pulses and tea. During 1998 - 99, the value of the former category is made up of about 73 percent palm oil and the remainder is mostly soybean oil. The latter category is made up of over 85 percent wheat imports. Together, these two import categories represents 13.5 percent of the total imports. However, expected wheat production targets (19.5 million tonnes) in FY 99 - 00 was surpassed and the country for the first time exported US $ 250 million worth wheat.


 

Crops:

The most important crops are wheat, sugarcane, cotton, and rice, which together account for more than 75% of the value of total crop output.
Pakistan's largest food crop is wheat. In 2005, Pakistan produced 21,591,400 metric tons of wheat, more than all of Africa (20,304,585 metric tons) and nearly as much as all of South America (24,557,784 metric tons), according to the FAO.The country is expected to harvest 25 to 23 million tons of wheat in 2012.
Pakistan has also cut the use of dangerous pesticides dramatically^.
Pakistan is a net food exporter, except in occasional years when its harvest is adversely affected by droughts. Pakistan exports rice, cotton, fish, fruits (especially Oranges and Mangoes), and vegetables and imports vegetable oil, wheat, pulses and consumer foods.

Pakistan’s food crisis:

There is an emergent need to reorganize the agriculture sector of the country, and bring about the revolution in the production of agriculture. The agriculture lands are being drastically reduced in the country and Food-related social unrest is putting burdens on already weak or borderline governance systems in Pakistan, which is experiencing persistent food insecurity. If the country faces recurrent food crises in the future, this situation could deteriorate further. How much patience will the people of Pakistan be prepared to continue to show?
The world’s financial experts have placed Pakistan on a list of 36 countries that face a serious food crisis. Like rest of the world Pakistan is also facing food crisis that has two sides; one is unavailability of edibles and second is soaring prices due to gap in demand and supply of edibles. A recent analysis of the causes  and  consequences  of  Pakistan’s food insecurity points out that food security has been under constant threat since 2008, when world food prices reached their highest levels and Pakistan’s food inflation registered as high as 34%.

Children Starving to Death in Pakistan:

 The main entrance to the Civil Hospital in Mithi, headquarters of the Tharparkar district in Pakistan’s southern Sindh Province, is blocked by a couple of men clad in traditional dress and turbans. They are trying to console a woman who is sobbing so heavily she has to gasp for breath.
She lost her two-year-old son just moments ago and these men, both relations of hers, were the ones to carry the child into the hospital where doctors tried – and failed – to save him.
Just a couple of yards away, a team of paramedics waits for the shell-shocked family to move on. They understand that the mother is in pain, but scenes like this have become a matter of routine for them: for the last two months they have witnessed dozens of people, mostly infants, die from starvation, unable to withstand the fierce drought that continues to grip this region.
The death toll hit 650 at the close of 2014, but continues to rise in the New Year as scant food stocks wither away and cattle belonging to herding communities perish under the blistering sun.
Among the dead are three-week-old Ramesh; four-month-old twin girls named Resham and Razia; and the yet-unnamed sons of a couple who are inconsolable after the passing of their newborn children.

 The main entrance to the Civil Hospital in Mithi, headquarters of the Tharparkar district in Pakistan’s southern Sindh Province, is blocked by a couple of men clad in traditional dress and turbans. They are trying to console a woman who is sobbing so heavily she has to gasp for breath.
She lost her two-year-old son just moments ago and these men, both relations of hers, were the ones to carry the child into the hospital where doctors tried – and failed – to save him.
Just a couple of yards away, a team of paramedics waits for the shell-shocked family to move on. They understand that the mother is in pain, but scenes like this have become a matter of routine for them: for the last two months they have witnessed dozens of people, mostly infants, die from starvation, unable to withstand the fierce drought that continues to grip this region.
The death toll hit 650 at the close of 2014, but continues to rise in the New Year as scant food stocks wither away and cattle belonging to herding communities perish under the blistering sun.
Among the dead are three-week-old Ramesh; four-month-old twin girls named Resham and Razia; and the yet-unnamed sons of a couple who are inconsolable after the passing of their newborn children.

  Pakistan is a agricultural country and a large quantity of food goods are produce in and export to other county but their is a issue of food inflation in Pakistan. And 317 children are die in PakistanThar due to lackness of food goods and water that we can see in above report. In our country 75% areas covered with water and 35% areas is cultivatable. Foods goods are vary expansive in Pakistan. And the incomes of poor are low. So they can not buy the necessities of life. 

     

This is the current situation in Pakistan that where due to food inflation 317 children are die.Pakistan government try to finish food inflation but cannot finish it. And in thar there was food inflation is not a major issue there was lack of water. People does not have basic necessities of life like clothing food, water, and shelter etc.Pakistan government try to provide the basic necessities to the people but failed. In our country Pakistan most projects are started but could not completed. And the government made a lot of projects to end the food inflation but these projects also could not fulfill.

America is a super power country. Most of area of their land was used for building's, Houses', mals, school's, and industries. They does not make much progress in agriculture so a large amount of food goods they import to other countries like Pakistan, Bangladesh and etc.  So now our government stops export of food goods and import food goods to other country to full fill the need of food in our country.  And secondly government change the method of production and introduced modern technology among farmers. Due to this in our country we can produce large amount of food good's and full the need  of people. I hope by this government should cover up on this issue. In future no one die due to food inflation. It is also our responsibility that we don't spoil food goods like in marriage and functions  people full their plates but can't eat fully and then level that. By doing this they does not thought about the poor people that they eat it. but now that was spoiled no one eat it. so that was our responsibility that we should not do this and also stop other while they do that. If we work with our government then I am sure we will soon end  food inflation in future.

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