The problem is all pervasive as the prices of almost all food items have been rising In a scenario that is all familiar in India and for that matter in many other countries too, rising food prices have become an extremely sensitive issue with major political and social ramifications that go well beyond the economic ones. Not that the economic consequences are unimportant. From the macroeconomic management point of view, rising food...
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Potato Utopia in Left Bengal by Abhijeet Chatterjee
Marie Antoinette may or may not have deadpanned “let them eat cake” but the Bengal government could have tried saying “let them eat potato” in these times of price rise. But out went that opportunity — along with 7,000 bags or 4,200 tonnes of potatoes at Panagarh in Burdwan. In terms of cash, potato stocks valued at Rs 50 lakh rotted on the open ground today because of a dispute between a...
More »India wastes 59 MT fruits, vegetables every year
A whopping 59 million tonnes of fruits and vegetables go wasted in the country in a year due to lack of proper cold storage infrastructure, Minister of State for Food and Agriculture K V Thomas said today. Speaking at a CII-organised Cold Chain Summit, Thomas said that India produces 68 million tonnes of fruits and 129 million tonnes of vegetables in a year, being the second largest producer in the world....
More »Potato prices to remain volatile on supply constraints
Potato prices have turned volatile across India due to a mismatch in demand and supply. While prices have come down in northern and western India, prices still remain firm in the eastern part due to crop delays . Farmers in Punjab are getting 250-300 per quintal for the Pukhraj and Jyoti potato varieties. In the Jalandhar mandi, prices for a 50-kg packet were ruling at 130-160 on Tuesday while in the...
More »A yawning gap by Sanjeeb Mukherjee
From the time a farmer in India harvests his produce to the time it lands on your plate, farm products go through several layers of middlemen, wholesalers, cold chains and other intermediaries, which push its price up by many notches. The end result: growers get paid less and consumers pay more. The stranglehold that the government has over agriculture produce marketing in India has given rise to abject inefficiencies, lack...
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