The rot’s now setting in

The government stocks a fifth of its grain out in the open, left to be washed by the monsoon. As the UPA’s most ambitious welfare programme — food security for poor Indians — is unrolled, more grain will be collected and allowed to rot unless warehouses are built to stock an additional 35 million tonnes beyond the 110 million tonnes of storage we already have, the Planning Commission feels. The food security scheme proposes to sell grain to two out of every three Indians at a fraction of the price the government buys it from farmers.

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