Today, globalization of food distribution provides access to products that cannot be grown locally. While I believe that this is a negative trend because transporting these products over thousands of kilometers increases product prices, and local farmers may suffer due to the decrease in locally produced foods.
First of all, importing products from distant countries involves a huge amount of transportation costs. Sometimes, products have to carried through refrigerated containers, trucks, or even ships. Insurance facility and huge costing involves in this procedure. Even, the price varies according to the economic condition of the exporter country. For example, Apple shipping from different countries required to transport in food-grade containers with proper frizzing to keep the apple fresh. Which increase the actual cost of the fruit.
Due to the availability of foreign foods, markets are losing demands for the locally produced items. And, when the demand decreases, the market fell down and farmers are not getting the fair price. They have to bear huge losses. Such as, locally produced fruits like- banana, pineapple, guava is enriched of nutrients, however, consumers willing to purchase foreign fruits like- strawberry, apple, grapes etc. with higher price. This tendency will make effect in our local food production.
To sum up, cross border food trading is definitely appreciable but it will be also kept in my mind that foods from other countries will always be more expensive and we also have a source of nutrients from our own which is easily available and reasonable in price.