"Derek Moody" wrote in message ...
In article , pearl
wrote:
"Jim Webster" wrote in message news:51bs5nF1fub
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"pearl" wrote in message
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you are having trouble grasping it
No, you seem to be, but of course no one could be that stupid.
This is from my reply to the post you removed 3 Newsgroups
from, btw. You sorely need a better edjumacation, webster..
He removed the groups because none of them had shown any interest in your
meanderings.
No meanderings here.
You are right in one thing
I'm right in all of it.
however:
'The USSR was the largest grain importer in the world in the 1980s,
importing an average of 36 million tonnes per year, much of which
That's what jim was claiming. You snipped the rest of it because
it shows the reason *why* imports went up from *near zero*:
'The USSR was the largest grain importer in the world in the 1980s,
importing an average of 36 million tonnes per year, much of which
went to Russia (Figure 3). At the end of the 1980s the Russian
Federation was importing about 20 million tonnes of grain per year.
[3] After 1993, however, the Russian Federation drastically reduced
imports of grain. This is entirely reasonable, since feed demand for
grain had fallen due to the fall in livestock inventories. Meat imports,
particularly of poultry meat, increased rather dramatically in these
years (Figure 3). The rouble devaluation of 1998 caused a decrease
in meat imports. But healthy economic growth between 1999 and
2001 fuelled a growth in meat imports once again.
The main reasons for these revolutionary changes in Russian
agricultural production, use and trade lie in a change in the position
of the livestock sector in Russian agriculture in the Soviet period
and after. In the 1960s and 1970s, Krushchev and particularly
Brezhnev made the decision to improve the Soviet standard of
living primarily by increasing consumption of livestock products.
To increase meat production, the Brezhnev regime concentrated
on investing in "industrial" livestock production (Van Atta, 1993).
Demand for meat was ensured by keeping Soviet retail prices for
meat virtually constant from the mid-1960s to 1990. Increasing
livestock inventories also required increases in grain for feed.
Soviet grain production increases (predominantly in Russia and
Kazakhstan) of about 60 million tonnes per year from the early
1960s to the late 1970s was not sufficient to support the increase
in livestock inventories. For this reason, Soviet imports of grain
increased from near zero in 1970 to 36 million tonnes per year in
the 1980s (Shend, 1993).
...'
http://www.fao.org/docrep/007/y5069e/y5069e03.htm
Jim has yet to learn that you are incapable of understanding -anything- with
a number in it, anything with a logical argument in it, and that although
everyone else is capable of scrolling upthread to review an argument you are
not.
Jim isn't, and you have shown that you are another shoddy liar.
Well done, moody.