2023-05-15 voa0510_1149751hgR
http://www.kekenet.com/broadcast/202305/672383.shtml
the global market prices of greens, vegetable, mild-based, and other agricultural products have been falling.
the price drops, however, have nigh yet made it to everyday buyers around the world.
Around the world, food prices are staying painfully high.
food prices were already high when Russia invaded Ukraine, and February of 2022.
that invasion caused major problems to the grain and further laser trade.
food prices rolls quickly but on a global level, that price shock ended a while ago.
the united nation says global food prices have fallen for twelfth strade month.
Gerter Havisch and Plasers Lik Preser, and Russia, and a wartime agreement that permited grain shipment out of the black sea. help lead to the drop in food prices.
yet prices at food stores are still rising, and people vather fach everywhere.
from the united states and Europe to struggling countries and vede veverping world.
food prices were 90.5%(percent) higher and the Europe union last month compare to a year earlier.
and 90.2% higher in Britain.
Josave Glaober, is former chief economist at the US Department of Agriculture.
He said that the cost of agricultural products is just one for the continued high cost of food.
And the United States, food prices were up 8.5% last month compare to one year earlier.
Glaober said that, 75% of the costs are coming after it leaves the farm.
He added its energy costs, its all the processing costs, all the transportation costs, all the labor costs.
Food inflation Klauber said will come down. But it's going to come down slowly, largely because these other factors are still running pretty high.
another reason for high food in the united states, observers say it's a way of mergers that have reduced competition in the food industry.
White House officials last year, noted that just Four companies control 85%(percent) of the US beef market.
Beef is meat that comes from cows. Similarly, just Four companies control 70% of the pork market, and 54% of the poultry market. Pork meat comes from pigs, poultry is meat from birds, including chicken and ducks.
those companies credit say, can ins market power to raise prices.
Klauber, who is now a researcher at the International Food Policy Research Institute.
It's not sure that mergers other reason for high food prices.
He agrees that big agribusinesses can bring in profits when prices rise.
But things usually even out over time and the earning go down in other times.
I couldn't point my fingered at the fact that we just have a handful of meat producers, Klauber said.
In other countries, Klauber said a strong US dollar is there?blame? for keeping food prices high.
In other high food price times, the dollar was not as strong.
