Video Short

Why India Stores Grain It Can't Use

Name: Why India Stores Grain It Can't Use
Description: The Food Corporation of India holds two to three times the grain the government says it needs for food security. This short explores how a policy of near-unlimited procurement at the Minimum Support Price leaves taxpayers paying tens of thousands of crores to store surplus grain that sometimes rots before it is used.

The Food Corporation of India holds two to three times the grain the government says it needs for food security. This short explores how a policy of near-unlimited procurement at the Minimum Support Price leaves taxpayers paying tens of thousands of crores to store surplus grain that sometimes rots before it is used.

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