Grain Storage

The Centre today approved a Rs 1 lakh crore programme to create the world's largest grain storage capacity in the cooperative sector to reduce crop damages and prevent distress sales by farmers, besides strengthening the country's food security.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi slammed the government over media reports that India lost Rs 406 crore worth grains due to damage during storage in state-run granaries in the last three years, saying "wasting food is equivalent to stealing from poor."

In a tragic incident, five children suffocated to death after they jumped into a grain storage container while playing at Himmatasar village in Rajasthan's Bikaner on Sunday, police said.

FCI, which buys grain from farmers at a state-set guaranteed price, has bought a record 38.83 million tonnes of wheat

A journalist from Haryana's Hisar district has been charged with defamation and illegal trespassing by the police for reporting on mishandling of grains at a government storage facility, in the latest blow to press freedom in the country.

The 63-year-old farmer had stepped into a grain auger, the blade violently twisting and twirling to carry corn to a storage bin on his farm in northeastern Nebraska - and, in an instant, his left foot was sucked into the machine.

Egypt's pyramids were built by the biblical Joseph to store grain and were not, as archaeologists believe, tombs for pharaohs, Republican presidential hopeful Ben Carson has said.

Implementing direct benefit transfer (DBT) for food subsidy will help government save Rs 25,000 crore by eliminating costs associated with procurement, distribution and storage of food grains, rating agency Crisil said on Tuesday.

India is grappling with storage problems due to bumper harvests in recent years.

India is expected to see a record production of food grains with rice and wheat produce touching a new high. But there are concerns on how and where this food grain stock will be stored, given that there is a considerable gap particularly on the storage front.

In Punjab, tonnes of grain continue to lie in the open and rot due to lack of storage facilities. Even after the Supreme Court order, there has been no change and the fresh harvest continues to rot even as thousands starve.Rains have set in but in Khamanu, about 75,000 kg of grain is lying outside the godowns, which is enough to feed 1,000 families...

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...

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 ...

While thousands in India continue to die of hunger every day, tonnes of grains get wasted due to storage space limitations. This is a shocking example of government's negligence. Across three states, lakhs of sacks of grain rot, simply because there isn't enough space to store them.Over 2 lakh sacks of wheat in Aligarh, worth  Rs 18 crore gr...

Free from harvesting Palvinder Singh is a happy man. This year his wheat harvest was up to his expectation and as a gesture of thanks giving, he, along with other farmers of a village near Sirhind are offering sweet water to people. He says this year his input cost was less and output more, which means he has made a profit of more than Rs 10,000 fr...

The Centre today approved a Rs 1 lakh crore programme to create the world's largest grain storage capacity in the cooperative sector to reduce crop damages and prevent distress sales by farmers, besides strengthening the country's food security.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi slammed the government over media reports that India lost Rs 406 crore worth grains due to damage during storage in state-run granaries in the last three years, saying "wasting food is equivalent to stealing from poor."

In a tragic incident, five children suffocated to death after they jumped into a grain storage container while playing at Himmatasar village in Rajasthan's Bikaner on Sunday, police said.

FCI, which buys grain from farmers at a state-set guaranteed price, has bought a record 38.83 million tonnes of wheat

A journalist from Haryana's Hisar district has been charged with defamation and illegal trespassing by the police for reporting on mishandling of grains at a government storage facility, in the latest blow to press freedom in the country.

The 63-year-old farmer had stepped into a grain auger, the blade violently twisting and twirling to carry corn to a storage bin on his farm in northeastern Nebraska - and, in an instant, his left foot was sucked into the machine.

Egypt's pyramids were built by the biblical Joseph to store grain and were not, as archaeologists believe, tombs for pharaohs, Republican presidential hopeful Ben Carson has said.

Implementing direct benefit transfer (DBT) for food subsidy will help government save Rs 25,000 crore by eliminating costs associated with procurement, distribution and storage of food grains, rating agency Crisil said on Tuesday.

India is grappling with storage problems due to bumper harvests in recent years.

India is expected to see a record production of food grains with rice and wheat produce touching a new high. But there are concerns on how and where this food grain stock will be stored, given that there is a considerable gap particularly on the storage front.

In Punjab, tonnes of grain continue to lie in the open and rot due to lack of storage facilities. Even after the Supreme Court order, there has been no change and the fresh harvest continues to rot even as thousands starve.Rains have set in but in Khamanu, about 75,000 kg of grain is lying outside the godowns, which is enough to feed 1,000 families...

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...

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 ...

While thousands in India continue to die of hunger every day, tonnes of grains get wasted due to storage space limitations. This is a shocking example of government's negligence. Across three states, lakhs of sacks of grain rot, simply because there isn't enough space to store them.Over 2 lakh sacks of wheat in Aligarh, worth  Rs 18 crore gr...

Free from harvesting Palvinder Singh is a happy man. This year his wheat harvest was up to his expectation and as a gesture of thanks giving, he, along with other farmers of a village near Sirhind are offering sweet water to people. He says this year his input cost was less and output more, which means he has made a profit of more than Rs 10,000 fr...