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nemo wrote: ↑Tue Apr 20, 2021 8:05 pm
The supply chain was broken when they closed the big wholesale market. You can't just turn it back on like a tap.
When farmers stop getting production price they stop planting- there will be sustained ripple effects of this for months.
The total loss of wasted produce during a market closedown, truck delivery refusal or other fuckup will financially ruin the family suffering the loss.
Even if they can survive, many will say, fuck it, we are not doing that again.
Time to live in the province.
Demand in the non-locked-down areas (scared of also being locked down) will more than replace demand from Phnom Penh. Don't forget Cambodia has 17,000,000 citizens, only about 15% is in lockdown now. 85% is stocking up one way or another.
Kammekor wrote: ↑Tue Apr 20, 2021 8:09 pm
The main crops currently harvested are cashew nuts, avocados, jackfruit and rubber.
a lot of the food comes from vietnam
as nemo says, they have probably broken a perfectly functional supply chain
and the effect of that will last many many months
just look at the current silicon chip crunch and the reasons for it
personally i've always wanted to try emergency disaster-relief rations
and i hear they're selling them below market price!
Kammekor wrote: ↑Tue Apr 20, 2021 8:09 pm
The main crops currently harvested are cashew nuts, avocados, jackfruit and rubber.
a lot of the food comes from vietnam
as nemo says, they have probably broken a perfectly functional supply chain
and the effect of that will last many many months
just look at the current silicon chip crunch and the reasons for it
personally i've always wanted to try emergency disaster-relief rations
and i hear they're selling them below market price!
I could follow you until the 'silicon chip crunch'.
I live out in the province, close to Vietnam, and I notice people stocking up seriously replacing demand from Phnom Penh.
Kammekor wrote: ↑Tue Apr 20, 2021 8:34 pm
I could follow you until the 'silicon chip crunch'.
I live out in the province, close to Vietnam, and I notice people stocking up seriously replacing demand from Phnom Penh.
Kammekor wrote: ↑Tue Apr 20, 2021 8:34 pm
I could follow you until the 'silicon chip crunch'.
I live out in the province, close to Vietnam, and I notice people stocking up seriously replacing demand from Phnom Penh.
and once stocked?
No, why? Outside of Phnom Penh there's a market six times as big. If one in six stocks up a bit the Phnom Penh demand is replaced.
Kammekor wrote: ↑Tue Apr 20, 2021 8:34 pm
I could follow you until the 'silicon chip crunch'.
I live out in the province, close to Vietnam, and I notice people stocking up seriously replacing demand from Phnom Penh.
and once stocked?
No, why? Outside of Phnom Penh there's a market six times as big. If one in six stocks up a bit the Phnom Penh demand is replaced.
for a week or so, perhaps, but where's it coming from anyway?
a glance at import traffic might indicate if there is going to be a problem
nemo wrote: ↑Tue Apr 20, 2021 8:05 pm
The supply chain was broken when they closed the big wholesale market. You can't just turn it back on like a tap.
When farmers stop getting production price they stop planting- there will be sustained ripple effects of this for months.
Time to live in the province.
Err no thanks, did that in thailand for a good while, was shit there, here worse so in my experience, albeit limited.
