Sikuti maulendo opita ku golosale akhala okwiyitsa kwambiri anthu wamba aku America, koma posachedwa mitengo ya nyama, mazira ngakhale mbatata idakwera pomwe coronavirus idasokoneza magwiridwe antchito anthawi zonse opangira zinthu ndi maunyolo ogulitsa.
Ponseponse, mitengo yazakudya zogulidwa kunyumba yakwera kwambiri m'zaka 46, ndipo akatswiri akuchenjeza kuti, mwachitsanzo, mitengo ya nyama ikhoza kukhala yokwera kwambiri ngati malo opherako nyama, pomwe akuyesera kuti azipanga pamiyezo yawo yanthawi zonse, amakakamizika kuchitapo kanthu. cholinga chake ndi kusunga thanzi la ogwira ntchito pa mliri.
Ngakhale kukwera kwamitengo yazakudya zofunika kwambiri monga mazira ndi ufa sikuchulukirachulukira chifukwa cha kuchuluka kwa zomwe ogula amafuna, mitengo ya kaloti, mbatata ndi zakudya zina imakhalabe yosasunthika chifukwa cha zovuta zamayendedwe komanso kukwera kwa matenda pakati pa okolola.
Mwachidule, ogula m'masitolo akuluakulu ndi eni ake odyera sayenera kuyembekezera kuti mitengo idzatsika posachedwa.
“Chodetsa nkhawa chathu chachikulu ndi kukwera mtengo kwa chakudya pakapita nthawi. Ndikuganiza kuti mitengo ipitilira kukwera, "atero a Julie Kalambokidis, eni ake a Brick Oven ya Adriano ku Glenwood, Iowa.
Tamra Kennedy, yemwe ali ndi malo ogulitsa zakudya mwachangu ku Iowa ndi Minnesota, adati kupeza zosakaniza zomwe zimafunikira kwakhala kovuta kwambiri.
"Mutha kutchula chilichonse ndipo ndikuwuzani kuti pali kuchepa," adatero.
Mitengo yazakudya idayamba kukwera mu Marichi pomwe mliri wa coronavirus udafalikira ku United States.
Dipatimenti Yogwira Ntchito inanena kuti kukwera kwamitengo yazakudya ndi 2,6% mu Epulo kunali kukwera kwakukulu pamwezi m'zaka 46. Mitengo ya nyama, nkhuku, nsomba ndi mazira inakwera kwambiri, ikuwonjezeka ndi 4,3 peresenti. Ngakhale kudumpha kwamitengo yambewu ndi zinthu zophika buledi ndi 2,9% sikunali kwakuthwa kwambiri, komabe kunali kuwonjezeka kwakukulu komwe kunalembedwa ndi dipatimentiyi.
Mitengo ya mkaka ndi zinthu zina, komanso zipatso ndi ndiwo zamasamba zinakwera 1,5 peresenti mu April.
Mitengo ya mazira idakweranso kwambiri mpaka $ 3 pa khumi ndi awiri kumapeto kwa Marichi, koma idatsika mpaka $ XNUMX pa khumi ndi awiri.
Mkhalidwe wa mitengo ya nyama ndi woipa kwambiri, makamaka chifukwa cha kuchuluka kwa matenda pakati pa ogwira ntchito yophera. Mliri wa coronavirus wakhudza kwambiri malo opangira nkhumba, koma okonza nyama ndi nkhuku akhudzidwanso pomwe antchito masauzande apezeka ndi coronavirus ndipo United Food and Trade Workers Union idati kuyambira Lachisanu kuchokera ku COVID-19 44 ogwira ntchito adamwalira.
Mitengo ya Epulo yogulitsa nyama ya nkhumba ndi ham inali pafupifupi 6% kuposa mu Marichi, pomwe mitengo yogulitsa hamburger ndi sirloin steak idakwera pafupifupi 4 peresenti panthawiyo, idatero USDA. Mitengo ya nkhuku zatsopano yakwera kuposa 12 peresenti.
Pambuyo pozimitsa kambirimbiri pokonza nyama ya nkhumba, ambiri aiwo adatsegulidwanso, koma, monga lamulo, sagwira ntchito mokwanira, zomwe zimakakamiza minda ya nkhumba kupha nyama zomwe nyama sizingasinthidwe.
"Pali zolepheretsa zamoyo, choncho ndikuyembekeza kuti mitengo ikhale yokwera, kwa kanthawi," adatero pulofesa wa Agroeconomics ndi Michigan State University Trey Malone. "Ngati muthandizira nyama masauzande ambiri, ndiye kuti muyenera kumvetsetsa kuti zidzatenga miyezi isanu ndi umodzi kuti mubweretse zatsopano, ndipo zikuwonekeratu kuti padzakhala kuchedwa ndi kusokoneza pamayendedwe ogulitsa."
Pofika pakati pa Meyi, malo opherako nyama anali akugwira ntchito pafupifupi 60 peresenti ya anthu onse, ngakhale kuti chiwerengerochi chakula mpaka pafupifupi 90 peresenti kuyambira pamenepo, atero a Jason Lusk, katswiri wazachuma pa Yunivesite ya Purdue. Ngakhale Lusk anali ndi chiyembekezo, akukhulupirira kuti kudulidwa koipitsitsa kwa nyama kunali m'mbuyomu, adanenanso kuti ndizotheka kuti matenda achiwiri angayambitse vuto lalikulu.
Kukwera kwina kwamitengo yazakudya kudayamba chifukwa anthu adayamba kusunga chakudya pomwe coronavirus idayamba. Koma ngakhale mitengo ya zinthu zingapo idagwa, mtengo wa mbatata, anyezi ndi kaloti udakhalabe pamlingo wapamwamba kuposa mitengo ya chaka chatha.
Kuwonjezeka kwakukulu kumeneku kukuwoneka kuti kwachitika chifukwa cha kuchuluka kwa anthu omwe amaphika kunyumba.
Kwa adyo, omwe nthawi zambiri amatumizidwa kuchokera ku China, kukwera kwamitengo kwa 278 peresenti chaka chatha makamaka chifukwa cha kusokonekera kwazinthu ku China.
Jeff Dunn, yemwe ndi CEO wa Bolthouse Farms, wogulitsa karoti wamkulu komanso wogulitsa zovala za saladi ndi zakumwa za zipatso ndi ndiwo zamasamba, adati sanawonerenso mavuto ena azachuma. Koma adanenanso kuti ena mwa ogwira nawo ntchito pakampani yake ali patchuthi chodwala komanso kuti pali ndalama zowonjezera zomwe zimagwirizanitsidwa ndi kukhazikitsidwa kwa njira zomwe cholinga chake ndikuwonetsetsa kuti ogwira ntchito ena onse ali otetezeka.
Winawake ayenera kutenga ndalamazi, adatero.
"Ndalama zenizeni zikuchulukana panthawi yonseyi. Osati ndi ife tokha, komanso ndi ogulitsa malinga ndi ndalama zowonjezera zomwe zimakhudzana ndi COVID, Dunn adatero. "Nthawi ina, ngati mukufuna kukhala ndi mwayi wosunga ndalama zobwezera, ndalamazi ziyenera kupachikidwa kwa wina kapena kulipidwa mwanjira ina kudzera mu chithandizo cha boma."
Ngakhale kuti gawo la malipiro a anthu a ku America pa chakudya latsika m’zaka 50 zapitazi, anthu ambiri akuvutikabe ndi kukwera kwa mitengo kwaposachedwa. Koma coronavirus yasiya anthu aku America pafupifupi 41 miliyoni alibe ntchito, ndipo kwa iwo, ngakhale kukwera pang'ono kwamitengo kungakhale kowopsa.
"Tonse tawona kuchuluka kwa anthu osowa ntchito, ndipo anthu ambiri ali pachiwopsezo chosowa ntchito komanso ndalama zogulira chakudya chomwe amagula," adatero Malone. "Kwa anthu omwe adzipeza kale m'mavuto, kukwera kwamtengo kumeneku kunali vuto lina."
Inalinso nthawi yovuta kwambiri kwa oweta ziweto, omwe ankayembekezera kuti pambuyo pa zaka zingapo za kuchepa kwachuma, apindula ndi malonda atsopano ndi chuma champhamvu chapakhomo.
"Alimiwo ankaganiza kuti awona kuwala kumapeto kwa ngalandeyo," adatero Lusk. "Zikuwoneka kuti zinali zowunikira za sitima yomwe ikubwera."