Comments on: As food prices rise, Opium fields in Afghanistan change to Wheat http://futurismic.com/2008/04/11/as-food-prices-rise-opium-fields-in-afghanistan-change-to-wheat/ Presenting the fact and fiction of tomorrow since 2001 Sat, 20 Mar 2010 09:43:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Al Fin http://futurismic.com/2008/04/11/as-food-prices-rise-opium-fields-in-afghanistan-change-to-wheat/comment-page-1/#comment-13926 Al Fin Mon, 14 Apr 2008 16:42:33 +0000 http://futurismic.com/?p=3180#comment-13926 Westerners pay less than 10% of their income for food, whereas many third worlders pay 80% or more. Quite a shock to see poppy farmers forsaking opium for wheat because the wheat gives better prices. Farmers have always had to choose between food crops and "cash crops", such as tobacco, cotton, marijuana etc. Now that food crops have become cash crops the choice moves up the chain a link. Westerners pay less than 10% of their income for food, whereas many third worlders pay 80% or more.

Quite a shock to see poppy farmers forsaking opium for wheat because the wheat gives better prices.

Farmers have always had to choose between food crops and “cash crops”, such as tobacco, cotton, marijuana etc. Now that food crops have become cash crops the choice moves up the chain a link.

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