Foodgrain Storage

• As crops rot, millions go hungry in India

  Every day some 3,000 Indian children die from illnesses related to malnutrition, and yet countless heaps of rodent-infested wheat and rice are rotting in fields across the north of their own country.

• Indian wheat rots in the open after bumper harvest

  India ran out of warehouse space to hold another bumper crop, a core problem of the nation's food crisis.

• Wheat rots in Punjab, but Kashmir Kaur's family will starve

  Putting food on the family's plate is an everyday battle for Kashmir Kaur. This happens in a state where at least 10 lakh metric tonnes of surplus wheat, is rotting outside government godowns - grain that should have been fed into a weakening public distribution system. Kaurs have a below poverty line ration card that entitles them to 35 kilos of w...

• Hunger spreads as foodgrains continue to rot in Madhya Pradesh

  When  malnutrition is the stark reality in most of the states, it is difficult to believe that food could be getting wasted due to lack of storage space.  Nearly five thousand  metric tons of wheat bought from local farmers by  the Seoni district  Cooperative society is rotting out in the rain. Even though, in the last one ...

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  NDTV Impact: PM wants more food warehouses

  Following NDTV's reports on rotting foodgrain in various states because of improper storage facilities, the PM has asked for more warehouses to be built to ensure foodgrain is not stored in the open.

• In drought, monkeys feast on wheat

  Our storage of foodgrains is so poor that millions of tonnes get eaten by rats and insects, and as we found, by monkeys.