2:22 PM Monday, July 23, 2007
Disasters hit China's grain output, higher food prices likelyThe main idea of the article:Flood and other natural disasters had destroyed large swathes of farmland causes food prices to be higher
One new word I have learnt:inflationBEIJING: Floods and other natural disasters are hurting China's grain output, the government said Monday, raising the prospect of higher food prices with inflation already at uncomfortably high levels.
The word means:a general and progressive increase in prices
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