[mukto-mona] Food and Fuel.An omnious combination.

Many people may not be aware of the impending danger but it's already here. For billions of people around the world life has become unbearable due to the high price of staple food. In many poor nations people are spending 60-70 pc of their net income in buying food. Hunger driving people to the extremes. Law order situation is fast deteriorating and mass protests and riots are taking place. Why suddenly food has become such an explosive issue?  The hidden culprit is fuel. To make the wheels of our cars and industries running we need an eternal flow of fuel and this precious liquid is not found every where but it's needed every where. The fertile human brain is not sitting idle to counter this problem. But there is not much we can do about it. We can't transform anything into fuel; we need very specific things to transform them into fuel. We have started using our food grains to supplement the dearth of fuel. The rich nations are making bio fuel to lessen their dependency on natural petroleum. The other concern is to save the environment by using bio fuel.

 A recent statistics shows that since April 2006, eight million hectares of corn, wheat, Soya and other crops that once animal feed and food have been diverted from food production in the United States. In 2008, 18% of U.S. grain production will go to biofuels. Brazil- the world's largest ethanol producer, Argentina, Canada and Eastern Europe are diverting large amounts sugar cane, palm oil, and soybean crops to biofuels.

Europe has mandated a 5.75% use of biofuels by 2010.If achieved; this could require 20% of Europe's cropland to be diverted from food to fuel production. If Australia were to replace 10% of its unleaded gasoline with ethanol, and if were to come from fermentation of wheat, it could require about 40% of the country's annual average wheat crop. This is a very grim picture and there is none to make a compromise. The global population is rising at an alarming level and on the other hand production of food grains is shrinking. All these signs say that a catastrophe is not very far.

 

Akbar Hussain

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