India has made significant progress in boosting vegetable and fruit production, but the lack of adequate processing facilities and cold chain units for preservation results in the post-harvest loss of.
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India grows more food, wastes more, while more go hungry
Between the ongoing farmers’ protests highlighting cries of no proper remuneration for what the “annadata” (food provider) produces and India’s 103rd position in the Global Hunger Index (GHI) lies Indian agriculture’s third shocking reality – farm produce wastage.
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Between the ongoing farmers’ protests highlighting cries of no proper remuneration for what the “annadata” (food provider) produces and India’s 103rd position in the Global Hunger Index (GHI) lies Indian agriculture’s third shocking reality farm produce wastage.
Statistics back Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s oft repeated line on India’s needs to move up fast on capability to store and distribute farm produce. If India spends almost Rs 1.5 lakh crore on cheap and free food grain each year, a study in 2016 estimated that Rs 92,651 crore is lost annually in farm produce wastage.