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The Norwegian government on Tuesday signed a deal to start stockpiling grain, saying the COVID-19 pandemic, a war in Europe and climate change have made it necessary.

The deal to store 30,000 tons of grain in 2024 and 2025 was signed by agriculture and food minister Geir Pollestad, finance minister Trygve Slagsvold Vedum and four private companies. The wheat, which will belong to the Norwegian government, will be stored in already existing facilities by the companies in facilities across the country. Three of the companies will store at least 15,000 tons this year. 

Companies “are free to invest in new facilities and decide for themselves where they want to store the emergency grain, but they must make the grain available to the state if needed,” the government said.

Norway’s ministry for agriculture and food said, “the building up of a contingency stock of food grains is about being prepared for the unthinkable.”

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[-] 9point6@lemmy.world 84 points 1 week ago

Norway continuing to demonstrate how to run a country

[-] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 21 points 1 week ago

I really don't get why we ever stopped doing things like this. It just makes sense. It makes sense for any product that can be stored for a time, not having it would cause problems, and it can have spikes of use. If I can just convince corps that it would be government subsidies of warehouse storage maybe we would do it more.

[-] CobblerScholar@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago
[-] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 3 points 1 week ago

we stopped with our grain and the wikipedia does not mention after reagan which it was late in his term and the nineties when we stopped most things. If you read to the end it mentions purchasing and giving to food banks to stabalize prices which would sorta suggest we do not have storage of it anymore but can't be sure. As far as I know we only kept doing it for oil and gas.

[-] sensiblepuffin@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

What, subsidizing dairy farmers?

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