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据《每日电讯》报道，澳大利亚正面临一场“大米危机”，预计本土种植的大米将在圣诞节之前告罄。
干旱以及水资源分配不均的影响，使得（大米）产量下降了80％以上，迫使SunRice削减了新州Riverina地区600名员工中的3分之1以上。
在今年早些时候新冠疫情爆发之际，总理莫里森不得不致电越南国家主席，以确保一家澳大利亚工厂的大米可以通过越南关闭的边境（而进入澳大利亚）。
“到圣诞节之前，我们的澳洲大米就会卖光。”Sunrise的CEO Rob Gordon表示：“我们的海外供应链（包括越南）是对澳大利亚本土产量短缺的风险对冲，因此我们仍将有大米产品上架，但不会是澳大利亚大米。”
水稻种植者表示这不仅仅是干旱的原因，而很大部分是水资源分配的问题。
水稻种植者协会主席Rob Massina说：“我们需要州和联邦的水源管理方提高管理水平，像我们在农场上这样高效地管理水资源。”
“作为农民，我们在农场上花费了数百万澳元，配备最先进的设备，以确保我们使用尽可能少的水。”
澳大利亚农民种植水稻的用水量已经比世界上任何其他国家少50％。 但这并不意味着农民反对依据《Murray Darling Basin》计划将水排放到自然环境中。 Massina先生说：“将水重新注入健康的河流系统中是必要的。但是，出于对环境和灌溉者的共同考量，正确的数字到底是多少尚待商榷。”
新州水务厅长Melinda Pavey表示，澳大利亚现在正面临由于其他州管理不善而造成的“大米危机”。 Pavey表示：“我们的大米产业，98％种植在新州南部，由于过去两年实行零用水配额而面临崩溃。” 她说：“新州经历了有史以来最严重的干旱，我们的社区生活在零安全水平之下，但南澳州正在以较低的洪水水位管理Lower Lakes，并从大坝中排放了超过60万兆升的水进入南大洋。”
编译来源： 每日电讯
原文链接： https://www.dailytelegraph.com.a ... b403ccd2c635f36da39
原文：
The drought and bungled water allocations has seen production drop by more than 80 per cent and forced SunRice to slash more than a third of its 600-strong workforce in the state’s Riverina region.
It comes as Prime Minister Scott Morrison had to call the president of Vietnam at the height of COVID-19 panic buying earlier this year, to ensure rice from an Australian owned factory would still be allowed through the country’s closed borders.
“We are going to run out of Australian rice by Christmas,” SunRice chief executive Rob Gordon said.
“Our supply chains including Vietnam are a hedge against Australian shortages so we will still have rice products on the shelves but it will not be Australian rice. Will people care? I think they should,” he said.
SunRice has seen $500 million in exports drop to less than $100 million
“The frustrating thing is that we are doing exactly what Australian companies should be doing — making Australian grown rice into branded products and then exporting that around the world,” Mr Gordon said.
“This is at a time when governments are saying regional jobs will lead the recovery from COVID.”
Rice growers say it is not just the drought but the management of water allocations that is to blame.
Rice Growers Association president Rob Massina said: “We need the state and ¬federal environmental water holders to raise their game and manage water as ¬efficiently as we do on our farms.”
“As farmers we spend millions of dollars on our farms putting in state of the art equipment to make sure we use as little water as possible.”
Australian farmers already use 50 per cent less water than anyone else in the world to grow rice.
“When the state and federal water holders are not working efficiently the brunt of those inefficiencies are worn by the irrigators,” Mr Massina said.
But that does not mean farmers were opposed to water being released into the environment under the Murray Darling Basin plan.
“Water was required to be put back into healthy river systems,” Mr Massina said.
“But what the right numbers are for the environment and for irrigators is still open to debate.”
NSW Water Minister Melinda Pavey said Australia was now facing a “rice crisis” that was caused by mismanagement in other states.
“Our rice industry, 98 per cent of which is grown in southern NSW, is at risk of collapse with the last two years of zero water allocations,” Ms Pavey said.
“While NSW was suffering through the worst drought on record, and our communities were living on zero general security allocations, South Australia was running the Lower Lakes at a minor flood level and released over 600,000 megalitres out over the barrages into the Southern Ocean.
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