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3."The rise of foodstuff prices may lead all the other commodities to follow suit," NDRC Vice-Minister Zhu Zhixin said.
4.Adjusting to these higher food prices could become a dominant preoccupation of governments in the years ahead.
5.As for the ban on sending grain out of the area, it is imposed to prevent the price from rising because the poor peasants have not enough to feed themselves and have to buy grain on the market.
6.If, on a conservative estimate, the cost of their food rises 20% (and in some places, it has risen a lot more), 100m people could be forced back to this level, the common measure of absolute poverty.
