Over the years. Can you see the western middle class so to speak increased their income from zero percent to 10 percent reedit but theres another graph as well, the red line. In the redline, compensates for Something Else. That population growth was bigger in poor countries and rich countries which means a lot of people took a larger part of every percent and it means that they, especially incomes of the population growth in asia, pushed the western middle class from the lower percentile into the higher so what used to be the 80th and 90th percentile of western middleclass people were replaced by the richest people in china. And they are still poor, some 60 percent as rich as the western middle classes which means it looks like its Income Growth is coming down in those areas as well but thats more an illusion that comes from population growth. If you keep population growth, if you pretend the population is stable over these years, the elephant wrath shifts to the redline instead and th
President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. reiterated on Wednesday, November 29, 2023, his support for a science-based approach to modernizing the agriculture sector and incorporating new technologies to the everyday work of farmers in line with the administration’s thrust on food security.
Mainstreaming new farming technology to increase the production of rice and other food items is the focus of the Philippine Rice Research Institute’s (PhilRice) Strategic Plan 2023-2028, according to President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. In his message at the 35th National Rice Research for Development Conference delivered by Agriculture Secretary…
India s rice output is projected to decline by 5% due to uneven rains in key rice-producing states like West Bengal, Odisha, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, eastern Uttar Pradesh, and Bihar. The ICAR-National Rice Research Institute has suggested that farmers in these states opt for short-duration rice crops to mitigate the impact of the erratic monsoon. The deficient rainfall has affected the sowing and growth of paddy crops, raising concerns about rice production. Additionally, global rice prices are expected to rise due to an estimated 7 million-tonne deficit in global rice production in FY24, driven by El Nino and unfavorable weather conditions.
The task before us today is to find the middle path: preserving and conserving traditional varieties on one hand, and maintaining ecological balance on the other, Murmu said