Granaries are full ? No, overflowing !

It beats the imagination.

As per a report appearing in Economic Times ( 30 June,2011 ), with a current stock of 65.5 million tons of food grains, India’s granaries are overflowing.

Even as 3 million children die every year due to mal-nutrition ( - Government does not like to call it starvation ! ).

Apparently, that is a minor issue for the government ( - especially, for the Agriculture Minister ), which wants to export 2 million tons of wheat and one million tons of rice , quickly, in order to ,

Ø  stop the grains from rotting in the open

Ø  earn export revenue

Ø  encourage farmers to produce more

So what, if the food price inflation is running at 40 % - 50 % ?

Has any wife of any minister complained ?

People have this bad habit of cribbing all the time !

With regards

Hemen  Parekh