The farmers do not get their fair price
The protest of the farmers going on in the country is a witness to the fact that whatever the cultivator produces.
The protest of the farmers going on in the country is a witness to the fact that whatever the cultivator produces, the farmer does not get his fair price.
On the other hand, India ranks 103rd in the Global Hunger Index (GHI).
Apart from these two things
A third shocking truth is the waste of food grains in India. Prime Minister Narendra Modi often reiterates that there is a need to work fast on the ability to store and distribute agricultural produce. Statistics also testify to this fact.
India spends around Rs 1.5 lakh crore every year on providing cheap or free food grains.
Whereas, a study in 2016 calculated that there is a loss of Rs 92,651 crore annually due to wastage of food grains in India.
Whenever it comes to wastage of food grains for decades, the same grudging answer of the government is that it is nothing more than what it has bought, preserved, and distributed.
But on the question of wastage of food grains, the government only mentions FCI, whereas the contribution of FCI in the amount of grain wasted is very small.
Measures to prevent waste In the last few years, the NDA government has focused a lot on the storage of agricultural produce.
The Rs 6,000 crore project named Sampada is being pushed forward with the help of government and private players.
It is a national plan to develop integrated supply cold chains for agricultural products.
FCI sources told India Today that efforts are being made to bring down the number of food grains was wasted every year in FCI storage.
The ICAR team led by scientist Dr. SN Jha submitted a report to FCI six months ago, and it is reported that FCI is in talks with the states on how to prevent wastage of grains from farms to storehouses.
Wastage: Dawa vs Satya Ram Vilas Paswan
He said in Parliament, ‘The perception of common people is that there is a huge waste of grains in FCI godowns, but we are able to control it and the waste has been negligible.
Of the total purchases of 61 million tonnes in 2016-17, only 0.014 percent wasted. In 2017-18 and 2018-19, wastage of cereals was 0.003 percent and 0.006 percent respectively.
The government purchased 75.17 million tonnes of food grains in 2019-20, of which 1,930 tonnes was wasted which is 0.002 percent of the total purchase. ”
India Today teams visited several states to take stock of the waste of food grains.
In Rewa district of Madhya Pradesh, we found negligence in the procurement system is the most important reason for waste.
Here, 11.4 lakh quintals of paddy brought by farmers at 124 procurement centers have been weighed.
Local authorities claim that 9.5 lakh quintals of this have already been raised. But the purchased paddy is completely disorganized.
These situations are when the target of procurement at these centers is barely 50 percent.
of them have been sent a message to bring their crops by 27 December. According to records, by December 17, only 29,000 farmers had reached these centers.
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