An interesting theory. To be verified, like the many that move the energy, but with some logic that would explain why suddenly increased the prices of cereals. The original elsemanaldigital.com
How possbile that same year in which Spain has seen a record collection, some 24 million tons, the price of grain is skyrocketing, causing an increase in the chain price of bread, milk and other staple food products?
This apparent challenge to the most basic law of the market is before the eyes of everyone and no one knows yet how it can be. What you see is people who have been benefited from the phenomenon and who are the main damage. Farmers of course are among the first, but I'm not even the main beneficiaries. What's more, those who are also farmers were damaged at the same time, because the growth of grain caused a 30% increase in the price of food for livestock.
But when it comes to damage, the former are the consumers who return from vacation found themselves with a price increase can not be justified, according to experts, neither in nor in the case of cereals in the diet of cattle. It 'clear that the producers of bread, milk, avian industry, etc. have taken advantage of the situation to inflate the real increase in their respective products.
The Ministry of Agriculture has recognized, at least for the bread, that the increase is unfair and the Confederación de Cooperativas Agrarias de España has come to terms, accepting that the kg of wheat for bread increased by 40% l 'extension of a loaf should have been two cents, maximum three, as in France, since the cereal has only 10% in the total cost of manufacturing. To this we must add
officially two factors. One is the increase in demand in developing countries like India and China and bad harvests in Russia and Australia. The other is the demand for making biofuel.
Biofuel: victims, not culprits
Blaming the increase in the grain, and consequently of bread, milk, chicken, eggs, etc., to biofuels is a falsehood. Simply because nowadays the European Union spends only 5% of its cereal production in this area, a percentage that Spain is reduced to less than half.
biofuel manufacturers are therefore not the perpetrators, but victims of the high price achieved by cereals. The proof is that most of bioethanol factory in Spain, installed by Abengoa and Ebro Puleva to-Babilafuente (Salamanca), had to stop its production for the costs of its raw material, which made a splash as manufacturing.
At this point we find others benefited by the increase in cereals: the big oil companies, jealous to the increasing competition from biofuels, in countries such as Brazil, have reached more than 50% of market share. The oil companies are making it difficult in all that you can distribute biofuels, and some see a possible "black hand" in the increase in cereal prices. The Asociación de Productores Energías Renovables complaint once the boycott would cover more or less suffering from biofuels by the oil companies.
What happened with the plant Babilafuente is particularly worrying, given that the production of crops for production of biofuels is a major strategic challenge for the maintenance of the agricultural sector in our country.
Only in Castilla y Leon are on their way half a dozen projects for the production of biodiesel. The most important and advanced, the one promoted by the cooperative to ACOR Olmedo (Valladolid), alternatively drop the requirement of the beet, whose production will be reduced to about half as part of the reorganization of the Common Market approved by Brussels.
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