Sugar crisis in Pakistan

Healthwise

I heard of a saying:
"Why we give poison to kill some one who can be killed by sugar"

Brown sugar is far better than the white sugar which is labelled as white poison. Our body extracts enough sugar, salt and minterals etc. that our body needs and expels the extras. We need heat/fuel for body which is in the form of sugar. Extra sugar we use for taste should be minimal. Only those people need extra sugar who work hard/manual labour or walk and burn sugar found in their body. To replenish that extra sugar is needed. In summer when sweating takes away salt and we go for salt. Nature has given us fruit like water melon which is all sugar and we see people doing hard labour, usually go for water melon to quench thirst and sugar take-in. Be careful please; extra sugar not used, not flushed out, can cause DIABETES.

Sugar crisis

This is not a new popup. People forget very soon what had happened in the past because they are continuing to compose themselves and struggle for their daily life livelihood. They accept calamities as if that was a test from God. Crisis such as this – sugar, ghee (butter oil) crisis; are man made.

Shortage of essentials is related to the Demand and Supply formulae. Whenever manufacturers think of enhancing prices; they get into pool and holdback supplies to the wholesalers and then retailers and customers face the shortage. They try here and there to find the stuff even if they have to pay extra to get it. Protests come on streets. Government at this stage jumps into it and form a committee to investigate and suggest what should be solution to crisis. Meetings are held between manufacturers and wholesalers, government. Manufacturers put forward reasons that raw material has become expensive and it is difficult to release goods without recovering extra money they paid for the raw materials. Customers continue suffering and meetings are continuing moving from week to week.
Finally prices are negotiated and decided to the benefit of manufacturers and the wholesalers; hoarders; who had a pre-knowledge of these crises. All upper hands benefit at the expense of customers.

When Mr. Bhutto was in power, a party who sails in two boats, was directed to or did it on its own, bought large stocks of sugar and ghee from main cities, over night. Dawn of the next day surprised users that these two items were not available. Government tried to help people through Utility stores and other outlets. Those who had piled stocks, offered these essentials at much lower rates than the government. To destabilize government rallies and slogans were on the street. This gave chance to the manufacturers and wholesalers to benefit out of it. They made large amount of profits.

Same thing – sugar crisis was created in FM Ayub Khan’s rule to destabilize government.

In all circumstances there are associations and groups whose members have to comply with their policies to stay with the group and take benefit from their dealing and negotiations with the source of supplies.

Possible solution

Manufacturers, producers wholesalers, some users and government meet each year end of December and review any increase in basic raw material which should help increased price of the finished goods.

Reverse of this – to reduce prices

In the international market: oil producing countries take their tankers for sale in the open market. At one time, purchasers of large stocks pooled and did not buy any oil. Oil production continued and tankers piled up at the selling point. Because there were no customers, prices had to go – go – go down from 52 dollars to 2.5 dollars a barrel.

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