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Post-harvest management can save 25 MT of foodgrains: Assocham
India can save up to 25 million tonne (MT) of foodgrain wastage, about 10 per cent of total production, if farmers adopt proper post-harvest management practices, according to the latest study by the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (Assocham).
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Grain worth 3 crore, meant for poor, missing from Allahabad godown
About 13,000 metric tonnes of foodgrain worth Rs 3 crore, meant to be distributed to poor families under the government's public distribution scheme, has gone missing from a Food Corporation of India (FCI) godown in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh. The depot manager has reportedly suggested that rats ate the 13,000 metric tonnes of rice and 37 metric tonn...
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FIR against Indian Oil Corporation's employees for damaging food grains
A food firm has lodged an FIR against the Indian Oil Corporation's (IOC) employees complaining that negligence on their part resulted in leakage from a crude oil pipeline that caused losses to the firm. Manager of JVS foods, located near the IOC's pump house at Sitapura area, where the leakage occurred on Sunday, alleged that a fountain of crude oi...
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Wasted foodgrain ends up as manure
Even as millions die of hunger in the country, foodgrain damaged due to improper storage will now be auctioned off by the warehouse where the Food Corporation of India had kept it. Unfit to be eaten by humans, the foodgrain will be converted into manure."The stock is not at all good. We will make manure out of this wheat but we will dry it first," ...
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Post-harvest management can save 25 MT of foodgrains: Assocham
India can save up to 25 million tonne (MT) of foodgrain wastage, about 10 per cent of total production, if farmers adopt proper post-harvest management practices, according to the latest study by the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (Assocham).
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Grain worth 3 crore, meant for poor, missing from Allahabad godown
About 13,000 metric tonnes of foodgrain worth Rs 3 crore, meant to be distributed to poor families under the government's public distribution scheme, has gone missing from a Food Corporation of India (FCI) godown in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh. The depot manager has reportedly suggested that rats ate the 13,000 metric tonnes of rice and 37 metric tonn...
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FIR against Indian Oil Corporation's employees for damaging food grains
A food firm has lodged an FIR against the Indian Oil Corporation's (IOC) employees complaining that negligence on their part resulted in leakage from a crude oil pipeline that caused losses to the firm. Manager of JVS foods, located near the IOC's pump house at Sitapura area, where the leakage occurred on Sunday, alleged that a fountain of crude oi...
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Wasted foodgrain ends up as manure
Even as millions die of hunger in the country, foodgrain damaged due to improper storage will now be auctioned off by the warehouse where the Food Corporation of India had kept it. Unfit to be eaten by humans, the foodgrain will be converted into manure."The stock is not at all good. We will make manure out of this wheat but we will dry it first," ...
