India, in case you don’t know is the 3rd largest producer of food as per the 2005 statistics. And in case you don’t know, the largest amount of food going to waste is also in India.
A 2005 estimate puts the cost of total food wasted in India at Rs. 380 bn ($7.3 bn). A 2007 study by Rabo India Finance for Ministry of Food Processing estimates it even higher, at Rs. 589 bn ($ 12.6 bn).
I sure can believe it. For example, I brought 250 grams (1/2 pound) of flat beans last Saturday. Yesterday when I wanted to cook it, to my horror, I found half of them wasted … a fungal growth.
To cut the story short, I threw them away – in my container garden. While doing so, I found that some flat beans I’d junked earlier (a month or so back) had flowered and viola … the 1st flat bean on the roof top container garden.
Time I paid more attention to the roof top and reminds me that it has been too long since I’ve had Russian sauce.
A 2005 estimate puts the cost of total food wasted in India at Rs. 380 bn ($7.3 bn). A 2007 study by Rabo India Finance for Ministry of Food Processing estimates it even higher, at Rs. 589 bn ($ 12.6 bn).
I sure can believe it. For example, I brought 250 grams (1/2 pound) of flat beans last Saturday. Yesterday when I wanted to cook it, to my horror, I found half of them wasted … a fungal growth.
To cut the story short, I threw them away – in my container garden. While doing so, I found that some flat beans I’d junked earlier (a month or so back) had flowered and viola … the 1st flat bean on the roof top container garden.
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