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Prepper ping - Food and Seed Shortages (China) during a pandemic, assure future farm crop shortages through government interference (Compulsory Quarantine)
Farming is gambling and assumes many stable favorable conditions which generally remain outside of your control
Since China has already hoarded enough grain supplies to last them for 1 1/2 years, the threat exists to sustain high food prices even for years into the future

“Jilin, located in China’s corn belt, is an important processing and production region for the country’s cereals.
The authorities locked down the entire province on March 14.
The lockdown has affected 24 million people and threatened the national food supply. “

“On April 6, Jilin authorities claimed that to safeguard the spring plowing, more than 80 percent of seeding sheds covering 19,768 acres of land were ready,
and over 90 percent of corn and soybean seeds had been delivered. “
”However, online Chinese videos showed farmers from various parts of the country were removed as they plowed the fields by local police for violating lockdowns,
and were subject to either detention or quarantine for 14 days. “

” ..“Seeds and fertilizer are the two main things for spring plowing. But China’s viable grain seeds come in at a high price.”
According to Liu, many Chinese farmers have become victims of the opaque procurement practice in China.
Some even had near-zero harvest because of bad seeds. “
“He explained that the seeds are controlled by foreign entities, and they are very expensive.
“The farmers no longer keep the good seeds from previous harvest like in the old days,” he said. “ (Emphasis mine)

“Over the years, Chinese farmers have suffered economic loss owing to inferior seeds. In one 2019 Chinese media report, a case of inferior seeds cost 205 farmers in Jiangxi Province around $726,000 loss, totaling 800 acres of fields. In 2020, fake seeds led to no harvest in a 279-acre field involving 40 farmers in Inner Mongolia. “

(My comment) : When you are dependent on “bad seed” for your crop production, crop yields will be lower, or totally non-existant.
The article states that the only “good seed” is controlled by “foreign entities”.

Farming is the closest thing to financial gambling with many conditions that remain outside your control ; it is always about timing, weather conditions,
having good seed and fertilizer; when you have a late season planting even good seed will see a lower crop yield,
but you need to be in the field, even if it is just to sow in the crop.
If you don't get into the field even for a small crop , there will be no seed for the next years crop.
The fact that farmers who rely on good seed, can't keep seed over from one year to the next,
suggests that “good seed” may in fact be genetically modified and controlled by external foreign forces.