India bans wheat exports to deepen global food crisis
telegraph.co.uk
telegraph.co.uk
It's common with headlines like "<event> to <effect>". Like "rising interests to cause concern for home owners". I.e it's about causality/effect, not intention.
To make it more explicit, what are the omitted words?
Probably something like "[That] India bans wheat exports [is expected] to deepen [a/the] global food crisis". Or maybe [risks] or [could lead]?
Same words but much clearer. The headline as it stands is just sloppy editing.
> Eschew flamebait. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents.
Terrible for all food importers though. Wars with looting and pillaging (with global impact), famines, social unrest, pandemic. Going off headlines one might think we're a century off.
I presume the list is 0 length right now, and it'll be interesting to see if it ever expands.
A scorching heatwave has curtailed wheat output in India and domestic prices have soared to an all-time high.
"We were expecting curbs on exports after two to three months, but it seems like the inflation numbers changed the government's mind."
Rising food and energy prices pushed India's annual retail inflation up towards an eight-year high in April, strengthening economists' view that the central bank would have to raise interest rates more aggressively to curb prices.
Wheat prices in India have risen to a record high, in some places as high as 25,000 rupees (£263) per tonne, way above the government's fixed minimum support price of 20,150 rupees.
But a sharp and sudden rise in temperatures in mid-March means the crop size could be smaller than expected at about 100 million tonnes or even lower, a New Delhi-based dealer with a global trading firm told Reuters.
The government had estimated production would hit an all-time high of 111.32 million tonnes.
Why should the democratically elected government of a country place the interests of other countries before those of its own citizens?
The notion that, if everyone just went along with things, then they would be better off, is why some people argue that free will doesn't exist and more to the subject matter, it's also why agriculturally productive land has been more and more centralized and industrialized, over the last few decades especially, in the name of creating this giant system of global food distribution which so many are now reliant entirely upon and which has also now just shit the bed.