'Food will cost more' due to US drought

Basic supplies safe but oil and pork prices to rise, expert says

The US drought will not endanger domestic food security but it is almost certain to result in costlier cooking oil and pork, experts said.

The drought, the worst in more than 50 years, will affect China but not to the extent that basic food supplies are threatened, Zhai Jianglin, vice-president of the Academy of Science and Technology at the State Administration of Grain, told China Daily on Thursday.