Food Economy : Perishables and Food Inflation

Perishable Handling in Mandies
Photo by: Vijay Sardana

This is the way, perishable products are transported to mandies. The rotting and mishandling leads to wastage. Perishables are waiting for customer on roadsides and in hot sun. We are not able to develop proper infrastructure to handle these perishables and even for farmers and drivers. The reason is we don't have funds and desire to create required infrastructures. 

 How  our policy makers will control the food inflation?

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  1. Anonymous21 August 2012 at 06:56

    good thought , I suppose its iur desire to utilise teh funds in right way which is restricting us to address thsi huge opportunity. regards neeraj

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