This document discusses India's grain crisis, caused by poor policies around production, procurement, storage, and distribution of grains. Key points:
1) Bumper harvests have led to phenomenal increases in wheat procurement but policies of subsidies and minimum support prices have distorted production incentives.
2) Grain storage infrastructure is inadequate, leading to large quantities of grain rotting each year even as food insecurity persists. Storage and distribution costs the government around 750 billion rupees annually.
3) The public distribution system is inefficient and leak-prone, with only around 40% of grains reaching households. Private traders have been largely displaced from the market.
The document recommends redesigning food policy to
1. Dumb Policies & Rotting Grains
Anatomy of a Crisis*
Shantanu Bhagwat
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