Methods of Coping with Food Shortages and High Prices

[Erumo]

This method works only once. You will eat all your grown vegetables during 1 meal Then you will have to wait months till next harvest. And before that wait months before these light will be delivered. lol. Google say human can survive about 10 days without food and water. Good luck with these lamps. All your suggestion are long term investment. It is too late to use them as a method to survive now.

[kaseygriffin]

Of course, it is not possible to meet all needs, but honestly, each individual's awareness of the role food plays will contribute to reducing poverty in the future. Anyway, people soon realize that sharing love and help is the solution to a good life, competing for self-interest and a controlling mindset will only lead us to destroy our own lives.

[stompix]

You can't graft trees younger than 3 years, you .
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I have avocados which are within the 18-36 inch recommended graft height, that are younger than 3 years.

Ok, I don't know about avocados, I'm from Europe and I'm quite sure any avocado tree left outside for a week in winter will be dead with our climate, trees that grow further south do grow faster so it might be possible to graft them at 2. The only trees we've been experimenting with are cherry and plum trees and those don't get the girth thickness so young, not in central europe.

"Organic" potting soil I bought in walmart hardens into a concrete like substance if it dries out. It is very necessary to mix other things in with potting soil for it to perform at a bare minimum. Other brands of soil I got in stores have a strange water repelling trait. Water sprayed on the surface will bead and refuse to be absorbed by the soil. Which also needs supplements mixed into it.

Two major reasons, all because the ones selling it are some cheap bastards.
The first reason would be too much clay, they did too deep when getting their soil or they mix good soil with cheap brown one, which does have a lot of clay and sand, and those things no matter how much they are mixed they wills till format layer. The second is when they throw a ton of replacement for peat moss in the organic ones, and of course, again they rush it, sawdust from hardwood is usually the killer there, tons of carbon no nitrogen, and there are a lot more. If your soil forms that it's better to completely change it, next it will be white fungus starting to grow around.

This is way easier in India. Most of the houses have structure where there is terrace. This is according to weather. Since there is no snow, there is always plenty of space on the roof. We need to store the water in over head tank which is delivered by government supply once everday for few hours. This is the way it works here.
So most of them have water tanks, space, and plenty of sunlight. Easy to grow hydro-ponic farms are new trend in here.

If things are so easy to do in India, why does the country have the same number of people experiencing food shortages as the whole Africa?
Every time I hear the same, things are so easy to do in India, agriculture is easy to do there, electricity is cheap there because you have sun, manufacturing is easy there because of cheap labor, technological development is easy because you have tons of smart people, every single thing is easy to do there but what a surprise, nothing gets done.

If we can just prevent this because this will lead to food shortages, as an individual, what is really the best way to cope with food shortages is to have our own backyard garden.

With the biggest 100 cities in the world getting an average of over 4k/sqkm in their urban area and see reaching over 30k, good luck having with the backyard garden plan, reminds me of the bunny plan by Maduro.

[bitgolden]

Unfortunately this is getting out of hand in my nation as well and sad enough we got used to it already. Any simple food is getting super high, it is getting to a level where it is not even worth getting it. The interesting thing is, some stuff are not that high, like potato has always been a cheap thing and it is still a cheap thing, the price didn't even change all that much at all, but for example cabbages became like 20x more expensive, unreal levels, why would you buy cabbages if they are that expensive? Like is there really a reason for it? When there are cheaper options available?

So, this situation made sure that we can eat some foods normally, whereas other foods are totally unrealistic to get, and that makes no sense to me but that's the life we are living like that's normal.

[Dunamisx]

You can't graft trees younger than 3 years, you have to wait for them to grow that big,  besides, grafting is not for that, it's made to improve the plant or for reproduction, trying to get fruits from a young tree will simply put more stress on its growth reducing the overall amount of fruits you will get from it over his lifespan. 

Advance technology such as crops hybridization and biotechnology has proven with effectual use of second felial generation of exotic breeds in plant, whereby you can get a normal tree that takes 5 to 7 years before flowering to start fruiting in not more than 3 years with well developed structures and still arrived with a better results, those plant that are given an intensive management care system tend to do well than the open field crops which got affected with many environmental factors.

A hybrid tree can be grated at 2 years old and by the third years fruiting is initiated, we have different techniques that can be used to induce flowering and this will hasten the productivity schedule and longetivity in bearing fruits.

[so98nn]

You can't graft trees younger than 3 years, you .
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This is way easier in India. Most of the houses have structure where there is terrace. This is according to weather. Since there is no snow, there is always plenty of space on the roof. We need to store the water in over head tank which is delivered by government supply once everday for few hours. This is the way it works here.
So most of them have water tanks, space, and plenty of sunlight. Easy to grow hydro-ponic farms are new trend in here.

If things are so easy to do in India, why does the country have the same number of people experiencing food shortages as the whole Africa?
Every time I hear the same, things are so easy to do in India, agriculture is easy to do there, electricity is cheap there because you have sun, manufacturing is easy there because of cheap labor, technological development is easy because you have tons of smart people, every single thing is easy to do there but what a surprise, nothing gets done.

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Let me guess, you never been to India.

I dont know, how to put everything infront of you, but the way things work in India can only be experienced by you if you were here.
India is not a small country mate. India houses over 1,403,643,260 peeps. The area is spread over 1,269,219 sq miles.

After Independence India's constitution was drafted by taking into consideration all the cultures, religions, castes and more differentiating factors at the time.

Before independence British made sure that there will always be fight amongst the peeps living in India and they did it by keeping the religion as first breaking factor while castes (lower, middle and upper) as second card in their court.

The pre-independence India was completely torn apart by Mughals, Muslims, Portugees and Britishers. Everyone just fled away with huge assets from India. At the time Gold was most abundant along with arts of fabricating clothes, artefacts, furniture, and most importantly they looted everything precious from the king states at the time.

By the time 1947 came in, Britishers already taught everyone that India is country with different Castes. The castes were made based on the skills they carried.

For example,
Maratha became Warriors,
Brahmin became teachers,
Sonar became Goldsmiths,
Shimpi became Fabricators
and so on.

There are main castes which then divided into 3000 castes and 25,000 sub-castes in India.

When Independence day came in, Britishers with some political influence divided India into Pakistan and India. This was based on the Religion that is Hindu and Muslim.

Why are we going through the History?

Well, during British rule; India fought for its freedom, they changed the whole course of India and mindsets of Indian peeps.
After Independence, The Constitution of India was formed.

It was NOT easy to write a constitution that will give EQUALITY to every person living in India since some foreigners already screwed everything for their benefits!

However, it took 395 articles in 22 parts and 8 schedules to form it and giving Equality, Secularism, Integrity to everyone. Irrespective of Caste and Religion.
This formed worlds largest active Constitution.

1) India suffered a lot for its freedom.
2) India was left alone with their own decisions after 80+ years of ruling by British.
3) Before British came in, there was proper development, mixed culture, kingly and Princely states working in Harmony.
4) It would have developed India at alarming rate through trades and investment.
5) Foreign rule took the opportunity to shut Indians when it was actually time for them to go modern.


Slowly Indian Government evolved a lot. But it was hard to connect all the cities and all the states in India.
Due to cultural diversity most of the people started living in their respective cultures, castes and religions. However, the challenge was still accepted to connect all these dots and it took India huge cost.

Setting up the Schooling and higher education system was another great challenge for India.
Due to caste system the Internal fight was still up on who will get the education and who will not. Girls were not allowed to take the education. From the boys only higher casted one were able to get the education.

These kinda roadblocks came in front of India all the time.

The Education is the vital part of everyones life to understand the unity, living standards and power to control the countries growth. However India lacked this in the Initial Days.

HOWEVER,

after 72 years of freedom, India has grown to next level mate.

Yes, I agree there is some difference between distribution system of ...
1)Food
2)Shelter
3)Education

It may not yet even, but that has big history of 150 years! India is still Prospering.

If you can throw an article which states how India is having under nutrition then I can also put up article where they state how India's growth is highest in the world.

FYI: You should have read the article before quoting it. It does say this and matches with the India's path from freedom towards the Prosperity:

The two subregions showing reductions in
undernourishment – Eastern and Southern
Asia – are dominated by the two largest
economies of the continent – China and India.

From the same Article that you referred, India is already trying its best to overcome these situations by arranging various programs such as School feeding, subsidising of nutritions food.

These are needed because there are differences in the way everyone earn their salary.
Many of the families are still away from education because of various challenges in front of them.

Despite the fact India has already emerged as IT, Mechanical and Pharmaceutical hub and not to mention most of the foreign companies set their businesses in India for its cheap labour, real estate and earn big load from it.

If you live in USA your Government has set out the rules to give minimum wagers on hourly basis however salary system does not work in that format in India.
India still leads the jobs based on the education and skills.

There is huge huge difference between everyone's salary based on what everyone studied.

Before you counter argue, everything above is interconnected and justifies why there are some downfalls in India but things are changing. India is already having working population of 45%. Remaining % constitutes to farmings, businesses, overseas employment etc.



So yes, there are many easy things but numerous road blocks which I dont think a foreigner would understand if they did not taste the air here.
In short everyone knows how their family situation is behind the wall but no one expresses it in-front of neighbours.



***Please note that this post is not hatred speech, I mean no harm to any culture, religion, caste, ethnicity. The post is made to understand the history, its relation to the current situation of country and nothing more. All the information above is already available throughout the internet.***

[Rruchi man]

Please share if you have other good information.

Agriculture is good and it is almost what everyone would recommend, but let's ask ourselves really, unless you get into commercial or large scale agriculture on time, how long can that your little farm save you from food shortages and high prices if the situation becomes prolonged? I don't think you will go far surviving on that talk less of if you have a family.

for me, the best solution to cope with food shortages and high prices is to get into the food business either directly or indirectly. That is to stop being just a consumer. If you can get into the business, and invest in either wholesaling or retailing, you will always have food and can always adjust your prices according to inflation, such that people who are only consumers offset the effects of the high prices of things for you.

[stompix]

Let me guess, you never been to India.

I dont know, how to put everything infront of you, but the way things work in India can only be experienced by you if you were here.
India is not a small country mate. India houses over 1,403,643,260 peeps. The area is spread over 1,269,219 sq miles.

Exactly the attitude I despise the most!
Bragging about hardship, bragging about things that don't matter like population and religion and the wrath of gods and the martian invasion, and never once admitting how much wrong stuff goes there.

Why do I need to go to India when your country continuously asks for help with millions of tons of food and then brags about donating one ton?
When both the UN and UNICEF are telling 240 million people to live with food shortages and 60 million children are in the same situation, who should I trust, a nationalist on a forum that lies to people about how great their country is or their own officials?

Why are we going through the History?

Because you need excuses, that's why!
There are countries that have never been independent till ww1, with their citizens never experiencing freedom in their empire, and are doing now 10 times better even after two world wars that nearly razed Europe to the ground. Why is South Korea so advanced when they were even poorer than India in the 60?
Stop blaming the English and Porthugees for everything, it's not the English that are shiting on your beaches, those are your own people, The war between your own population couldn't have happened if people wouldn't be so eager to kill each other for stupid reasons.
You had 80 years, in 20 years Japan from a destroyed country with wooden houses no mineral resources no agriculture turned out into a global superpower, wonder why some can and India doesn't and there is no excuse.

So stop with the excuses, man up, and face reality!

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Advance technology such as crops hybridization and biotechnology has proven with effectual use of second felial generation of exotic breeds in plant, whereby you can get a normal tree that takes 5 to 7 years before flowering to start fruiting in not more than 3 years with well developed structures and still arrived with a better results, those plant that are given an intensive management care system tend to do well than the open field crops which got affected with many environmental factors.

Put the source for that 
There is a difference between the process of grafting and the requirement for that, if the tree you're going to graft hasn't fully developed in two years grafting won't produce any other effect than some thin branches for the next year with a few fruits and a really stressed trunk that can't support the weight. If you want an indoor tree in a pot, sure you can try it but don't expect the fruits to last more than a weekend, and without friends coming in the visit.
Yeah sure, I've seen apples giving 3-4 fruits at 2 years, and then taking another 7 years to reach maturity instead of 5.

[so98nn]

Let me guess, you never been to India.

I dont know, how to put everything infront of you, but the way things work in India can only be experienced by you if you were here.
India is not a small country mate. India houses over 1,403,643,260 peeps. The area is spread over 1,269,219 sq miles.

Exactly the attitude I despise the most!
Bragging about hardship, bragging about things that don't matter like population and religion and the wrath of gods and the martian invasion, and never once admitting how much wrong stuff goes there.

Why do I need to go to India when your country continuously asks for help with millions of tons of food and then brags about donating one ton?
When both the UN and UNICEF are telling 240 million people to live with food shortages and 60 million children are in the same situation, who should I trust, a nationalist on a forum that lies to people about how great their country is or their own officials?

Why are we going through the History?

Because you need excuses, that's why!
There are countries that have never been independent till ww1, with their citizens never experiencing freedom in their empire, and are doing now 10 times better even after two world wars that nearly razed Europe to the ground. Why is South Korea so advanced when they were even poorer than India in the 60?
Stop blaming the English and Porthugees for everything, it's not the English that are shiting on your beaches, those are your own people, The war between your own population couldn't have happened if people wouldn't be so eager to kill each other for stupid reasons.
You had 80 years, in 20 years Japan from a destroyed country with wooden houses no mineral resources no agriculture turned out into a global superpower, wonder why some can and India doesn't and there is no excuse.

So stop with the excuses, man up, and face reality!

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Advance technology such as crops hybridization and biotechnology has proven with effectual use of second felial generation of exotic breeds in plant, whereby you can get a normal tree that takes 5 to 7 years before flowering to start fruiting in not more than 3 years with well developed structures and still arrived with a better results, those plant that are given an intensive management care system tend to do well than the open field crops which got affected with many environmental factors.

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The fact that you are still arguing on the negative side and not focusing on what your article itself pointed out, amuses me in what way you thinking about it.
Man up and read again. You should really read that article one more time.

South Korea? You could have come up with better administration example I guess.

Oh yes yes, Europe hnn?
Two days ago UK's Truss and Russia's Lavrov were in India to visit PM. Wondering why they need help from the shitty people like Indians?  
Oh no they screwed up with war, poor people want to have good allies for future? Ohhww, sad kitty face!

The fact that English shit got cleared by Indian's made you go faster in the past.
No wonder why they visit India till date to get talents for their MNC's. I have seen the way UK and USA works. Put up mock person in the interview get hired and get nice classy pay-scale.

The whole service and client support still comes from India. Just having nice classical perfume and wearing suit mean nothing, you gotta have functional skills in the skull.

No wonder how you are still arguing about the negative part of it. You forgot the para where developments were stated and how the country is prospering.
You can still counter argue on this, but facts wont change mate.

Anyways, I heard the agricultural export has rose a lot from India after some shortage in western hemisphere. Ohhw, poor Indians, still helping out the rulers.

[stompix]

You can still counter argue on this, but facts wont change mate.

Anyways, I heard the agricultural export has rose a lot from India after some shortage in western hemisphere. Ohhw, poor Indians, still helping out the rulers.

Facts? Ok, let's talk facts cause you really need a spank back to reality!
India, vs...a tiny country called the Netherlands?

After remaining stagnant for the last three years, the export of agriculture and allied products during 2020-21 grew 17.34 per cent to $41.25 billion.

Exports from Dutch farming were worth a staggering 85 billion Euros last year alone; a new record.

You're not even managing to beat a country that you can barely pinpoint on the map, and even if we talk about wheat alone, Europe still beats in production by 20%. Imagine that a country with 1.5 billion is not able to match a patch of land that would be submerged if they had the same flushing toilets as you.

The whole service and client support still comes from India. Just having nice classical perfume and wearing suit mean nothing, you gotta have functional skills in the skull.

Skills? What skills?
You mean reciting the same manual over and over and doing the whole work cheaper than the electricity a robot would require.
That is your pride? Call center operators?

South Korea? You could have come up with better administration example I guess.

South Korea: GDP per capita 35,196
India: GDP per capita 2,116   

Lol....why don't you compare yourself to Botswana , but even those have a 3 times bigger GDP per capita than India.
Oh, in case you're as bad at math as in every other aspect, South Korea has a GDP per capita that is 15! bigger than India.
Let that sink in! 15 times!

[so98nn]

You can still counter argue on this, but facts wont change mate.

Anyways, I heard the agricultural export has rose a lot from India after some shortage in western hemisphere. Ohhw, poor Indians, still helping out the rulers.

Facts? Ok, let's talk facts cause you really need a spank back to reality!
India, vs...a tiny country called the Netherlands?

After remaining stagnant for the last three years, the export of agriculture and allied products during 2020-21 grew 17.34 per cent to $41.25 billion.

Exports from Dutch farming were worth a staggering 85 billion Euros last year alone; a new record.

You're not even managing to beat a country that you can barely pinpoint on the map, and even if we talk about wheat alone, Europe still beats in production by 20%. Imagine that a country with 1.5 billion is not able to match a patch of land that would be submerged if they had the same flushing toilets as you.

The whole service and client support still comes from India. Just having nice classical perfume and wearing suit mean nothing, you gotta have functional skills in the skull.

Skills? What skills?
You mean reciting the same manual over and over and doing the whole work cheaper than the electricity a robot would require.
That is your pride? Call center operators?

South Korea? You could have come up with better administration example I guess.

South Korea: GDP per capita 35,196
India: GDP per capita 2,116   

Lol....why don't you compare yourself to Botswana , but even those have a 3 times bigger GDP per capita than India.
Oh, in case you're as bad at math as in every other aspect, South Korea has a GDP per capita that is 15! bigger than India.
Let that sink in! 15 times!

Aye man, you are so boring. You keep talking about only things which can counter part the negative side.

Seriously, you can only think about BPO, Toilets and stuff?

Really? No Google CEO, Twitter CEO?
Infosys, Infotech, Sciformix, TATA,?
Now I know I’m talking with a person who just want to show India as dusty nation.

You can still come down here, will pop a beer for ya!! Guests are welcomed, irrespective of Love or hatred.

Because this way we can end up rewriting the Wikipedia with our argument.

[Mometaskers]

Being a city dweller with literally no vacant land nearby, my only option is to hoard by buying extra whenever I can. Mostly rice and beans, which keeps long enough if stored properly, and canned goods.

If your climate allows it and you have a plot of land you can grow sweet potatoes, cassava and taro. These are low-maintenance root crops that could extend your rice stores. Bananas/plantains are also good, they are basically a no-season crop since it replaces itself with new suckers.

This method works only once. You will eat all your grown vegetables during 1 meal Then you will have to wait months till next harvest. And before that wait months before these light will be delivered. lol. Google say human can survive about 10 days without food and water. Good luck with these lamps. All your suggestion are long term investment. It is too late to use them as a method to survive now.

I guess that's what the food store is for. Hoard as much as you can, gtfo away from cities and start planting, living off your hoard while you wait for the harvest. I guess even if it's possible to grow lots of food indoors its still advisable to move to more rural areas.

[stompix]

Really? No Google CEO, Twitter CEO?
Now I know I’m talking with a person who just want to show India as dusty nation.

All people that have fled India and have renounced their citizenship for a US one.
If those are smart people you admire then there might be a problem with your way of thinking, looking at how easily they've ditched theirs.

Because this way we can end up rewriting Wikipedia with our argument.

Of course, because that's what you always do, try to distort numbers and facts, from beating Alexander the Great to leading the world in technology, when numbers and facts tell something different. And you have the nerve to laugh about South Korea, lol, 1/15!

Have fun believing everything, be proud of others' achievements that have nothing to do with yours, try to discredit others to bring them down to your level, and then at the end of the day you're going to ask why you're left behind. This is the main difference between us, we understand the problems we have, we deeply criticize them, we're looking for the future, not dwelling in some stupid dark age mentality, and the results are clear as the sky on a summer day.

1/15!

[darkangel11]

Wheat in cans or buckets for long term storage used to be very cheap and affordable. Rice is very similar except its not as versatile or diverse, in terms of it being used to make many different things.

Both can be used to make alcohol.
If hard times come I'm going to focus on setting up a distillery. My father used to make wine and mead 20 years ago, maybe it's going to become profitable again when we start facing shortages like the Russians already are.

Plants follow the light, feeding them light only from one angle is putting additional stress on their growth as sprouting more leaves upside will give them no benefit so they tend to have a thinner trunk, larger leaves, everything abnormal.

I used to do that a bit for "medical and spiritual purposes" Most LED lights are a waste of money. People who are serious about growing plants and can't afford expensive professional lights don't use that crappy chinese stuff. We use basically 2 types of lights: fluorescent tubes or bulbs (good for young plants) and discharge lamps either sodium (more natural) or metal-halide. To make plants feel more natural and grow stronger you induce wind in the room to make them sway and switch lights off for a few hours a day to simulate night.

[so98nn]

Really? No Google CEO, Twitter CEO?
Now I know I’m talking with a person who just want to show India as dusty nation.

All people that have fled India and have renounced their citizenship for a US one.
If those are smart people you admire then there might be a problem with your way of thinking, looking at how easily they've ditched theirs.

Because this way we can end up rewriting Wikipedia with our argument.

Of course, because that's what you always do, try to distort numbers and facts, from beating Alexander the Great to leading the world in technology, when numbers and facts tell something different. And you have the nerve to laugh about South Korea, lol, 1/15!

Have fun believing everything, be proud of others' achievements that have nothing to do with yours, try to discredit others to bring them down to your level, and then at the end of the day you're going to ask why you're left behind. This is the main difference between us, we understand the problems we have, we deeply criticize them, we're looking for the future, not dwelling in some stupid dark age mentality, and the results are clear as the sky on a summer day.

1/15!

 

Ouch!
I knew that you will pull the card of fled the country.

I am still not convinced with your explanations because you pin pointed only negative bullets. Which are also now recovering and moving towards good future.

What happening is whenever I’m saying IT you saying BPO, for Pharmaceutical R&D’s you saying Toilets, For skills you saying sticks. So the conversation is not going in proper direction.

Be thankful that guy is running Google making you billions in taxes. 

[Dunamisx]

Put the source for that  

The fact that you are still arguing on the negative side and not focusing on what your article itself pointed out, amuses me in what way you thinking about it.
Man up and read again. You should really read that article one more time.

I did not read any article before posting on what i said, its base on what i know, well to say the fact i studied agriculture but i don't necessarily need provings on that, i believe alot that knows about what i said could testify in that regards. but as you insisted on proving with an article i think this could show a little light more https://www.google.com/amp/s/scialert.net/fulltext/amp.php%3fdoi=ajps.2004.636.641
please ensure you take note of the  abstract and the heading that says "effect of age on rootstock".

Note:
Pls this is a discussion and not an argument.

[Cling18]

This method works only once. You will eat all your grown vegetables during 1 meal Then you will have to wait months till next harvest. And before that wait months before these light will be delivered. lol. Google say human can survive about 10 days without food and water. Good luck with these lamps. All your suggestion are long-term investments. It is too late to use them as a method to survive now.

We couldn't rely on all our food needs on our grown fruits and vegetables but at least, it could ease too many expenses and we'll be able to save and allocate it to our other necessities. It's better to plant and wait for 10 months to harvest what we saw than to wait for nothing. It can't sustain us continuously but it could also help us save.

[kryptqnick]

I think there's no universal answer, and it heavily depends on the details. Does the person live in rural or urban area? How high is the inflation rate? Are there severe food shortages? Are there electricity shortages or any risks of those? Is there running water and a risk of being left without it? What's the climate?
I'm not just making these questions up randomly, I'm formulating them based on what's going on in various regions of my country, Ukraine, which is currently hit by war. If it's urban area, it'll be difficult to grow foods on a level significant enough to make a food difference. If it's a rural area and the shortages are due to events like a war, there's a very high chance that there won't be any electricity (so lamps won't help) for long periods of time, and there can be water shortages as well.
If the inflation even hits 100% (and I'm saying this from experience because it happened when I was a university student in my country), this doesn't mean it's the end and you'll starve to death. It means you'll be able to afford very significantly less than before, and if you salary wasn't good before, you probably need to find a second job. But food shortages won't necessarily follow, so no need to buy loads of wheat which, let's be honest, you won't use anyway unless you're at a starving point (and inflation doesn't do that).
Essential and very useful things are those you can eat without cooking, those that can last for at least months without electricity, and those that can help satiate hunger. Nowadays, there are many protein bars, oatmeal bars and stuff like that, which can be super helpful in difficult times: they're small, very long-lasting, generally tasty (so you'll probably be willing to eat them even in case things work out well), and give your organism energy.

[kaya11]

Mung Beans is also good for long term storage, it was used by the revolution army here in our place, it is also versatile in different kinds of food combined with wheat and other vegetables. Rice is also a good choice, there are different kinds of rice here locally, and they can also be grinded and used just like wheat flour, and the best part is this these are too cheap.

[eaLiTy]

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Please share if you have other good information.

Since you are talking about food shortage, i am curious to know whether you are from Sri Lanka as the country is going through food shortage simply because of the non scientific decisions taken by the government without much thought process and forcing every farmer from inorganic farming to organic farming in a short period of time.

You can start farming to overcome foot shortages and high prices but the limitation depends upon the area you have and since you are talking about wheat, you need a large area to cultivate wheat. If area is not a constraint then you can farm literally anything.

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The pre-independence India was completely torn apart by Mughals, Muslims, Portugees and Britishers. Everyone just fled away with huge assets from India. At the time Gold was most abundant along with arts of fabricating clothes, artefacts, furniture, and most importantly they looted everything precious from the king states at the time.

Since you touched history, Mughals were initially invited by a landlord to invade Panipat and defeat the ruling king and Babur defeated Sultan Ibrahim Lodi and made his kingdom, since you mention Muslims, the first mosque in India was built in 629 AD in Kerala and Muhammad Bin Qasim invaded Sindh in 712 AD at a young age of 17 and he died at 20  . I am telling this because if there is a view of Muslims came after the invasion of Muhammad Bin Qasim, that is not true  .

When it comes to Portuguese, Vasco da Gama landed in Kerala for trade and commerce and we invited them and then later invaded parts of India and they are the last to leave India well after the Independence even after the British left in 1961  .

Even British came to India as East India trading company for trade and commerce and later invaded, the common theme is everyone was invited and then they showed their military strength with the support of locals who got favors for helping them.