Among the top wheat producers around the globe were Russia and Ukraine, until both got into the war recently. They accounted for almost 30 per cent of this particular world commodity exports – the WHEAT. However, ever since the late February of 2022, their conflict raises issues of shortage of food commodities supplies including others. Hence, as expected, India, the world’s second-largest wheat producer after China emerged as the new top wheat supplier to other federation nations and countries.
The sudden restriction was announced under the Government of India’s efforts to embrace its country’s heatwave problem that once was recorded to hit up to 45°C during the last two months, this year alone. It was also regarded as a must take precautionary step by the Government of India to seize control over inflation, scarcity and spike in daily needs prices. This is very important as India’s citizens are large in scale with 1.4 billion people.
The dynamo effect problems also affected India’s domestic output and possibly will jeopardise its nationwide food chains. Meanwhile, the high temperatures in India which will cause draughts and the death of crops are expected to last for several more weeks before the upcoming yearly monsoon next month. Nevertheless, some experts claimed that India rarely exports much food commodity supplies, especially wheat, as its country policies highly valued the citizens’ food security needs with high government-subsidized domestic prices.
As a result, India’s wheat export ban only makes the global price to be more expensive than ever. The situation has also significantly created worse implications with a few low incomes and developing countries being the worst hit, especially in Asia and the Middle East.
The only good news is that India is willing to continue supplies to those poor and famine countries as a humanitarian good cause action and open up for further discussion with a few good cross-cultural nations should their government make an official pledge to resolve the wheat export issues. Interestingly, Indonesia has seen some privileges when becoming one of the considering destinations for continuity of the much-needed commodity supplies of wheat and its based products from India. Interestingly, while Malaysia is identified as one of the most badly affected countries against India’s wheat ban from multiple economic sources, The Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs Ministry of Malaysia (KPDNHEP) denied so by claiming that 80 per cent of our wheat imports come from Australia, US, Canada and Ukraine.
Well, in between, let us pray together for the sudden ban on wheat exports to be lifted for good sooner so that the poor will never have to suffer more and so that businesses can continue as usual so as not to be overwhelmed by mass unemployment again. It is hoped that our Malaysian delegations can try to negotiate better options as win-win situations between both countries.
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