Question

Agriculture is a supplier of one of the important necessities of life--food. How food is produced is questioned for the use of herbicides, pesticides, fertilizers and/or hormone injections. How food is grown, organic or non-organic is an important question that consumers are beginning to ask.  Is this an option for the supply of food to consumers? What other options might be available and what kind of problems might be associated with this plan?

Answer 1

Consuners have wider variety of choices from organic to inorganic foods as well as hybrid and genetically modified foods as well as multiple last mile options like Ketogenic foods which are high on nutrition.

Countries having lower agricultural outputs tend to import largely and look forward to meet customer expectations as rising preferences and changing attitudes have seen wide variety of options available across globe.

However this poses serious challenge of scarcity and hence pushing demand higher and subsequently its prices higher making luxurious food products costlier than ever. Also this creates inflationary boom within an economy as preserving and transport costs alongwith taxes enormously raise the prices of new age food products in demand. This causes higher cash outgo for consumers in long run as side effect.