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    Author Topic: 55,000 CROES: Food crops wasted a year  (Read 200 times)
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    « on: April 16, 2008, 07:25:04 PM »

    Crop worth Rs 55,600 cr wasted every year
    17 Apr 2008, 0105 hrs IST,TNN

    NEW DELHI: For a country reeling under an unprecedented food crisis, here is an alarming figure: India losses Rs 55,600 crore worth of crops each year after harvesting. This has been admitted by the government before the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Agriculture.

    Foodgrain worth Rs 16,500 crore, roughly 10% of the foodgrain produced, is lost after harvesting every year.

    Considering that India has turned into a net importer of pulses as its crop productivity declines, it is shocking that Rs 2,000 crore or 15% of the pulse crop is destroyed each year.

    And, while the government, fearing that staple crop production is failing, pushes for a horticultural mission to compensate for the loss in agricultural growth, 30% of all fruits produced, roughly worth Rs 13,600 crore, go to waste.

    The losses in vegetable crops are as bad: 30% of the vegetables the country produces worth Rs 14,100 crore are lost due to mismanagement after they are harvested. Livestock and fisheries produce worth Rs 8,400 crore too are lost annually.

    The Parliamentary standing committee, reacting to the information, has reported, "The wastage of agricultural produce is massive, processing levels are very low, around 2% for fruits and vegetables, 26% for marine, 6% for poultry and 20% for buffalo meat as against 60-70% in developed countries."

    While a certain percentage of post-harvest loss is considered natural, the high rates prevailing in India, studies by FAO and others show, are close to the losses recorded even in African nations.

    Bad harvest timing, inefficient machinery, lack of storage facilities, contamination, inordinate exposure to heat, cold, and lack of moisture are the major reasons experts cite for the losses which can be prevented to some extent.

    But, worse still is the fact that the agriculture ministry does not even collect actual figures; these are all rough estimates. The government does not carry out any exercise to evaluate the actual losses.
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    « Reply #1 on: April 16, 2008, 08:38:56 PM »
    what do you think hoe can we minimize this wastage??
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    « Reply #2 on: May 04, 2008, 12:26:22 PM »
    now you can add another Rs.80.00 crores due to AP Chilly market trajedy- Asia's biggest Chilly market gutted in to fire and almost all stocks were burnt.
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    « Reply #3 on: July 05, 2008, 12:46:03 AM »
    Forget about evaluation, we dont hold Agriculture Minister accountable for such losses.
    Who on earth will ask the Minister to take appropriate steps to make such  losses bear minimum.
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