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after a ban, singapore might even doubt malaysia about their exporting which might cause singapore to lose its partnership with malaysia,,, and its hard to gain back trust from a country that you once let go to suffer

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I don't support the opposition teams points. So.

Malaysia has no choice to export because they themselves do not enough this is due to the rise in disease among chicken and the rise in the cost of chicken feed due to the war in ukraine. As every other country, Malaysia has to make sure that their own people's needs are met first before thinking of exporting goods. I'm sure Singapore would do the same if they were in Malaysia's situation

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Why should I send them chicken when I can make they ask for it for a higher price

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If there is no chicken in heaven, heaven is hell

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It is like Malaysia and sg are business partners. If Malaysia stops giving us chicken it is actually their loss since sg can find another country to import chicken from, but Malaysia will realise there is a lose since they completely stopped importing chicken.

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Singapore has other means of obtaining water

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“The availability and natural resource resilience dimensions suffered greatly over the past decade. Malaysia dipped well-below global average in the middle of the last decade and remained below (and getting worse) in the natural resource resilience dimension.”

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-Banning exports would not only affect Singapore but your own country
-I mean it’s up to Malaysia, the only loss you have is on you because other countries can be independent and not want your chicken/other things = L no money
- Singapore can eat other things too, no difference. We’re advanced too so most likely in the future, we’d make our own breeding area

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malaysia should prioritise the welfare of their country, ensure that their own citizens are well taken care of before supplying to other countries

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is really selfish and we are neighbouring countries keep on good term is necessary they might have extra ???

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keep chicken to ourselves,we profit,more chicken for us but if we sell,less chicken =sad malaysian

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- sharing is caring
- share ur food with others whole country happy
- if not later got rivals then no world peace v bad

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is good to maintain good relationships with neighbouring countries and sharing is caring ◉‿◉

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is good to maintain good relationships with neighbouring countries and sharing is caring ◉‿◉

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Malaysia and sg are too close to each other to operate in a manner which detaches communication and relationship  from one another. This makes the situation awkward.

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Later they no chicken then Malaysians die then malaysia don’t give us water then we die also

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sharing is caring so they should share their chicken with us

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sharing is caring

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malaysia not giving us chicken for free also. singapore buy one so like when sg pay them then use the money we paid to buy more chicken themselves.

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March 20, 2022, 12:48 p.m. ET

Farmers harvesting wheat last year near the village of Tbilisskaya, Russia. A crucial portion of the world's wheat, corn and barley is trapped in Russia and Ukraine because of the war. Credit... Vitaly Timkiv/Associated Press

The war in Ukraine has delivered a shock to global energy markets. Now the planet is facing a deeper crisis: a shortage of food.

A crucial portion of the world's wheat, corn and barley is trapped in Russia and Ukraine because of the war, while an even larger portion of the world's fertilizers is stuck in Russia and Belarus. The result is that global food and fertilizer prices are soaring. Since the invasion last month, wheat prices have increased by 21 percent, barley by 33 percent and some fertilizers by 40 percent.

The upheaval is compounded by major challenges that were already increasing prices and squeezing supplies, including the pandemic, shipping constraints, high energy costs and recent droughts, floods and fires.

Now economists, aid organizations and government officials are warning of the repercussions: an increase in world hunger.

The looming disaster is laying bare the consequences of a major war in the modern era of globalization. Prices for food, fertilizer, oil, gas and even metals like aluminum, nickel and palladium are all rising fast - and experts expect worse as the effects cascade.

"Ukraine has only compounded a catastrophe on top of a catastrophe," said David M. Beasley, the executive director of the World Food Program, the United Nations agency that feeds 125 million people a day. "There is no precedent even close to this since World War II."

Ukrainian farms are about to miss critical planting and harvesting seasons. European fertilizer plants are significantly cutting production because of high energy prices. Farmers from Brazil to Texas are cutting back on fertilizer, threatening the size of the next harvests.

Around the world, the result will be even higher grocery bills. In February, U.S. grocery prices were already up 8.6 percent over a year prior, the largest increase in 40 years, according to government data. Economists expect the war to further inflate those prices.

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For those living on the brink of food insecurity, the latest surge in prices could push many over the edge. After remaining mostly flat for five years, hunger rose by about 18 percent during the pandemic to between 720 million and 811 million people. Earlier this month, the United Nations said that the war's impact on the global food market alone could cause an additional 7.6 million to 13.1 million people to go hungry.

The World Food Program's costs have already increased by $71 million a month, enough to cut daily rations for 3.8 million people. "We'll be taking food from the hungry to give to the starving," Mr. Beasley said.

Rising prices and hunger also present a potential new dimension to the world's view of the war. Could they further fuel anger at Russia and calls for intervention? Or would frustration be targeted at the Western sanctions that are helping to trap food and fertilizer?

While virtually every country will face higher prices, some places could struggle to find enough food at all.

Armenia, Mongolia, Kazakhstan and Eritrea have imported virtually all of their wheat from Russia and Ukraine and must find new sources. But they are competing against much larger buyers, including Turkey, Egypt, Bangladesh and Iran, which have obtained more than 60 percent of their wheat from the two warring countries.

And all of them will be bidding on an even smaller supply because China, the world's biggest producer and consumer of wheat, is expected to buy much more than usual on world markets this year. On March 5, China revealed that severe flooding last year had delayed the planting of a third of the country's wheat crop, and now the upcoming harvest looks bleak.

"This year's seedling situation can be said to be the worst in history," said China's agriculture minister, Tang Renjian.

Rising food prices have long been a catalyst for social and political upheavals in poor African and Arab countries, and many subsidize staples like bread in efforts to avoid such problems. But their economies and budgets - already strained by the pandemic and high energy costs - are now at risk of buckling under the cost of food, economists said.

Tunisia struggled to pay for some food imports before the war and now is trying to prevent an economic collapse. Inflation has already set off protests in Morocco and is helping stir renewed unrest and violent crackdowns in Sudan.

"A lot of people think that this is just going to mean that their bagels are going to become more expensive. And that's absolutely true, but that's not what this is about," said Ben Isaacson, a longtime agriculture analyst with Scotiabank. Since the 1970s, North Africa and the Middle East have grappled with repeated uprisings. "What actually led to people going into the streets and protesting?" he said. "It starts from food shortages and from food price inflation."

Countries afflicted by protracted conflict, including Yemen, Syria, South Sudan and Ethiopia, are already facing severe hunger emergencies that experts fear could quickly worsen.

Nooruddin Zaker Ahmadi, the director of Bashir Navid Complex, an Afghan imports company, said that prices were rising across the board. It took him five days in Russia this month to find cooking oil. He bought 15-liter cartons for $30 each and will sell them at the Afghan market for $35. Before the war, he sold them for $23.

"The United States thinks it has only sanctioned Russia and its banks," he said. "But the United States has sanctioned the whole world."

For the global food market, there are few worse countries to be in conflict than Russia and Ukraine. Over the past five years, they have together accounted for nearly 30 percent of the exports of the world's wheat, 17 percent of corn, 32 percent of barley, a crucial source of animal feed, and 75 percent of sunflower seed oil, an important cooking oil in some parts of the world.

Russia has largely been unable to export food because of sanctions that have effectively cut it off financially. Ukraine, meanwhile, has been cut off physically. Russia has blocked the Black Sea for exports, and Ukraine lacks enough rail cars to transport food overland.

What is now becoming more worrisome is the next harvest, particularly in Ukraine. On March 11, Ukraine's agriculture minister begged allies for 1,900 rail cars of fuel, saying that the country's farms had run out after supplies were diverted to the military. Without that fuel, he said, Ukrainian farmers would be unable to plant or harvest.

There are other hurdles. The United Nations estimated that up to 30 percent of Ukrainian farmland could become a war zone. And with millions of Ukrainians fleeing the country or joining the front lines, far fewer can work the fields.

Russian and Ukrainian wheat is not easily replaced. Inventories are already tight in the United States and Canada, according to the United Nations, while Argentina is limiting exports and Australia is already at full shipping capacity. Over the past year, wheat prices are up 69 percent. Among other major food exports of Russia and Ukraine, corn prices are up 36 percent and barley 82 percent.

The war also threatens another longer-term shock to the food markets: a shortage of fertilizer.

Matt Huie, a farmer near Corpus Christi, Texas, said that skyrocketing prices had already forced him to stop applying fertilizer to the grazing fields that nourish his hundreds of cows, assuring that they will be skinnier come slaughter. Now he is worried he will have to also reduce fertilizer for his next corn crop, which would slash its yield. "We've gotten into uncharted territory," he said.

Russia is the world's largest fertilizer exporter, providing about 15 percent of the world supply. This month, just as farmers around the world prepared for planting, Russia told its fertilizer producers to halt exports. Sanctions already were making such transactions difficult.

Sanctions also have hit Russia's closest ally, Belarus, a leading producer of potash-based fertilizer, critical for many major crops including soybeans and corn. But even before the Ukraine war, Belarus's fertilizer exports were blocked because of sanctions over its seizure of an expatriate dissident who had been a passenger in a Ryanair jetliner forced to land in the country.

In another ominous signal to fertilizer customers, earlier this month European fertilizer producers said they were slowing or halting production because of soaring energy prices. Many fertilizers are made with natural gas.

The world's major fertilizers have now more than doubled or tripled in price over the past year.

Brazil, the world's largest producer of soybeans, purchases nearly half its potash fertilizer from Russia and Belarus. It now has just three months of stockpiles left. The national soybean farmers association has instructed members to use less fertilizer, if any, this season. Brazil's soybean crop, already diminished by a severe drought, is now likely to be even smaller.

"They're preventing fertilizers from getting to producing countries," said Antonio Galvan, the soybean association's president, criticizing international sanctions. "How many millions are going starve to death because of the lack of these fertilizers?"

Brazil sells most of its soybeans to China, which uses much of the crop to feed livestock. Fewer, more expensive soybeans could force ranchers to cut back on such animal feed, meaning smaller cows, pigs and chickens - and higher prices for meat.

Jon Bakehouse, a corn and soybean farmer in Hastings, Iowa, said he prepaid for fertilizer late last year because he worried about a looming shortage.

His fertilizer still has not arrived, and he now has less than a month to apply it to his corn crop. Without it, he said, his yields would be halved.

"You know when they show the cars jumping in slow motion and the passengers inside are up in the air? That's what it feels like," he said. "We're all just kind of suspended in the air, waiting for the car to land. Who knows if it's going to be a nice, gentle landing, or if it's going to be a nosedive into the ditch."

Reporting was contributed by Keith Bradsher from Beijing; André Spigariol from Brasília; Najim Rahim from Houston; and Safiullah Padshah from Kabul, Afghanistan.

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Ukraine War Threatens to Cause a Global Food Crisis

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March 20, 2022, 12:48 p.m. ET The war in Ukraine has delivered a shock to global energy markets. Now the planet is facing a deeper crisis: a shortage of food. A crucial portion of the world's wheat, corn and barley is trapped in Russia and Ukraine because of the war, while an even larger portion of the world's fertilizers is stuck in Russia and Belarus.

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CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts: The Russian invasion of Ukraine and the widespread devastation of the country raise the spectre of another world food crisis.

Asia suffered badly during the last food crisis from 2007 to 2008, mostly because of panicked behaviour in the region's rice markets.

It is too soon to know the full impact on Ukrainian grain supplies and infrastructure from the Russian onslaught, on the prospects for a reasonably normal winter wheat harvest, and then spring planting of wheat, corn, sunflowers and other commodity staples for which Ukraine is a significant exporter.

The country is known as "the breadbasket of Europe" for a reason.

But what is clear is that the world food economy is on the verge of another major crisis, perhaps as disruptive as the one from 2007 to 2008.

Important lessons were learned from the last food crisis, and avoiding those mistakes will be critical to keeping the region's food economies reasonably stable this time.

How the developing countries of Asia will fare as food supplies tighten is a special interest to Australia.

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Commentary: Is the world on the brink of a food crisis because of the Ukraine war?

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CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts: The Russian invasion of Ukraine and the widespread devastation of the country raise the spectre of another world food crisis. Asia suffered badly during the last food crisis from 2007 to 2008, mostly because of panicked behaviour in the region's rice markets.

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PROPOSITION TEAM - Boys : Yes, Malaysia should ban exports to protect their own citizen's interest 

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PROPOSITION TEAM - Boys : Yes, Malaysia should ban exports to protect their own citizen's interest 

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OPPOSITION TEAM - Girls : Malaysia should NOT ban exports to protect their own citizens' interest 

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OPPOSITION TEAM - Girls : Malaysia should NOT ban exports to protect their own citizens' interest 

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SINGAPORE - Singapore has added Indonesia as a new source for the import of chilled, frozen and processed chicken, the Singapore Food Agency (SFA) said on Thursday (June 30).

Fresh chickens are, however, not part of the arrangement. There is an ongoing ban of live chickens from Malaysia that has severely affected Singapore slaughterhouses, wet market poultry sellers and chicken rice sellers, among others.

Last week, Reuters quoted Mr Achmad Dawami, the chairman of the Indonesian Poultry Breeders' Association, as saying that Singapore wanted to import live chickens from Indonesia in order to keep their domestic slaughterhouses operational.

However, Indonesian producers preferred exporting slaughtered chicken since they lacked experience in shipping live poultry,he said.

TODAY has sent queries to SFA on whether it was looking to import fresh chickens from Indonesia.

On Facebook, SFA said that the addition of Indonesia as a source for chicken had been made possible by close collaboration between SFA, the Animal and Veterinary Service and the Indonesian authorities.

Indonesia joins the ranks of more than 20 countries such as Australia, Brazil and Thailand that are allowed to export chicken to Singapore.

In its Facebook post, SFA said that diversification is a "cornerstone of Singapore's food security strategy" and that it has been diversifying food sources "over the years" - especially commonly consumed food items such as eggs, chicken and vegetables.

It added that chickens can only be imported from SFA's accredited sources to ensure that they can meet Singapore's food safety and animal health standards.

Individual establishments and chicken farms will need to be evaluated and approved through documentary evaluations and on-site audits for verification, while consignments would be subjected to SFA's inspection, sampling and testing upon import.

"This ensures the continuity of SFA's source diversification strategy without compromising on food safety," the agency said.

"Having a new source for imports of frozen, chilled, heat-processed chicken meat and chicken meat products is another step forward in SFA's efforts towards diversifying food supply sources and enhancing the resilience of Singapore's food supplies. This will better safeguard us against global supply uncertainties."

In a separate Facebook post, Ms Grace Fu, Minister for Sustainability and the Environment, said that Indonesia joining the more than 20 countries accredited to import chicken "is another step forward for our efforts to diversify sources and enhance the resilience of our food supply".

SFA is a statutory board under theMinistry of Sustainability and the Environment.

"Global supplies will continue to face uncertainties, and we must be psychologically prepared for more disruptions and price volatility," Ms Fu said in the post on Thursday.

"While the Government undertakes long-term planning and proactive actions to safeguard Singapore's food supply, consumers and the food industry also have an important part to play.

"By being flexible with our food and ingredient choices, and switching to alternative products or sources when necessary, we can all help to increase Singapore's resilience."

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Singapore to import chilled, frozen, processed chickens from Indonesia; live chickens not part of arrangement

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SINGAPORE - Singapore has added Indonesia as a new source for the import of chilled, frozen and processed chicken, the Singapore Food Agency (SFA) said on Thursday (June 30). Fresh chickens are, however, not part of the arrangement.

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After Malaysia stopped exporting chicken from Jun 1 to prioritise local supply, Singapore moved to import more chilled and frozen chicken products from other countries like Australia and Thailand.

In 2021, about one-third of Singapore's chicken imports came from Malaysia, with almost all of them live chickens that were slaughtered and chilled in Singapore.

Malaysia has since partially lifted its ban, allowing Singapore to resume importing live kampung and black chickens from Jun 14.

Mr Lee on Saturday encouraged people in Singapore to be more understanding of the situation and flexible with their food preferences, saying that this would be "helpful".

"If you can't get kampung chicken, you can get some other chicken. It's not chilled, it's frozen, well that's not bad too. And if you can't get one variety of rice, if there is a problem, other varieties will be available, or something else will be available," he said.

"If we can be a little bit more flexible in our habits, it will be much easier to go through these difficult times."

UKRAINE WAR WILL "CARRY ON"

Beyond food supply disruptions, Mr Lee said he also discussed with other Commonwealth leaders the war in Ukraine, which he expects will "carry on for some time".

Russian forces seized full control of the eastern Ukrainian city of Sievierodonetsk on Saturday, confirming Kyiv's biggest battlefield setback for more than a month following weeks of some of the war's bloodiest fighting.

"I think if you asked me about the state of the war in Ukraine, it's going to carry on for some time, regardless whether or not Ukraine applies for membership in the European Union," Mr Lee said.

"It does not look like either side is ready to settle. It's a human tragedy, but they are in a situation where neither side is ready to make serious concessions."

Mr Lee said this spells bad news for the two countries and the rest of the world, as the war will bring "uncertainty, instability, tensions, the possibility of miscalculation and escalation, wider extension of the conflict".

The war's "side effects", including inflation and food supply disruptions, also come as the pandemic is not over yet, Mr Lee said, pointing to how Singapore is experiencing a growing wave of COVID-19 cases due to the BA4 and BA5 subvariants.

"So, we just have to be prepared for that. To be united, to be upgrading ourselves, to be transforming our economy and girding ourselves to come out from this," he added.

"And to continue to come out from this present situation ahead of the other countries, whatever the difficulties, I think that's well within our capabilities."

WORLD IN "NEW POSITION"

Adding to the challenges are the ongoing tensions between the US and China, Mr Lee said, adding that Washington no longer saw China's rise as "benign".

"It's a new position which the world is in," he said.

"And therefore it's no longer a situation where in the world, big countries are competing with one another, but basically at peace. Here, you actually have opponents, hostilities and bloodshed."

Small countries worry when tensions stew between big powers, Mr Lee said, especially if the small countries are forced to choose sides.

Mr Lee also foresees competition to engage Asian countries, citing how global economic initiatives like the US' Indo-Pacific Economic Framework and China's Global Development Initiative have "competing ideas".

"And where they are not contradictory, we participate in both sides. But it is a situation which we will have to manage, and I think that this is not a situation which is going to change very soon," he added.

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Singapore must do more to diversify food sources as supply disruptions will continue: PM Lee

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KIGALI, Rwanda: Singapore must do more to diversify its food sources as countries around the world are likely to continue prioritising local supply amid soaring prices, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said on Saturday (Jun 25).

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Indonesia to export chickens to Singapore ‘really soon’: Agriculture ministry

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JAKARTA: Indonesian companies will start to export chicken products to Singapore “really soon”, said Indonesia’s Ministry of Agriculture in response to CNA’s queries on Wednesday (Jul 6).