Originally posted by mSparks
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We are not talking about chocolate here. We are talking about potato and eggs two items that make up large percentage of Russian food consume.
You might not like five eyes reporting but as you said there is at least a grain of truth in it.
As you said to be effective propaganda has to have a percentage of truth. To get that truth there has to be parties collecting it right mSparks what is Moscow times. that right a truth collection arm.
Five eyes reporting is not a single source. Some sources are truthful because they are used for baselines to go into propaganda and if they are not truthful propaganda would not be effective.
Start of Russia current problem.
1)You need staff to harvest crops.
2) As the staff wages increase so does the price you have to sell the crops at to make a profit.
3)Farmers have to take out loans so high interest rates work the other way on food prices because these loan payments have to be calculated into food price..
4) Lack of staff due to war equal lack of staff to harvest crops.
5) Lack staff to harvest crops equals lack of harvest
6) Lack of harvest equals having to import replacements.
7) Import replacements depends on your countries exchange rate how cost effective this will be.
8) all the currencies Russia get for their oil have the Ruble devaluing.
This is a progressive tree of interconnected things.
Yes Ruble falling against Yaun equals Pesticides Russian farmers use getting more expensive so they will try to use less and this normally results in lower crop yield.
Currently raw materials for pesticide production are almost entirely supplied from China, India, and Europe. Over the past five years, imports of active ingredients used in the production of pesticides to Russia have almost doubled to 71,800 tonnes, costing US $746.9 million. According to Salis Karakotov, General Director of Schelkovo Agrokim, one of Russia’s largest agrochemical producers, the war with Ukraine destroyed the raw materials sector and is practically absent in Russia today. Under the former Soviet Union, 23 plants produced more than 40 pesticides — about 300,000 tonnes of finished products, he says. That figure has declined significantly with the collapse of the USSR.
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