Quote from: Dobabe on Today at 04:43:09 PM

Price of food in my country is very expensive, some salary earners cannot afford their daily needs due to the cost of food in my country. And some farmers will say is because of the last year flood that destroyed there farm and crops such as plaintain farm, yam farm and rice farm so they have decided to increase the price of food in the market. Also the cost of transportation due to the fuel subsidy in my country has also contributed to the cost of food in my country , due to the cost of food in market money has never been enough.

I agree - natural disasters, wars, etc. events have a very strong impact (negative) on the cost of food.
But the logistical component... It is often put as almost the main indicator of price growth..... But that's not true.
A simple example. A truck, for example, transports 10,000 tons of flour.
It consumes 60 liters of gasoline per 100 kilometers. A liter cost, for example, 1 dollar/liter. It went up to 2 dollars (100%).

So for 10,000 kilometers of flour:
it cost 60 dollars.
It became: 120 dollars.

Or in the cost of 1 kg of flour, was 0.006 dollars per kilogram of flour.
Became... Yes yes, $0.012 per kilogram of flour.

of course, the example is not linked to real figures, but it is close, but the level of "influence" of fuel cost per kilogram of production is very well visible.