How is India suffering from chronic poverty? Tackling India’s hunger problem and ways to fight it through technology
A huge chunk of the Indian population suffers from chronic hunger. On the Global Hunger Index , India is at the 97th position. According to a study by the International Food Policy Research Institute ( IRPRI ), one-sixth of India’s population is undernourished, while 190 million people go to bed hungry daily. A total of 30% children below the age of 5 years are underweight. India alone accounts for around 30% of neo-natal deaths internationally, all linked to malnutrition . Rs. 50,000 crore worth food wasted yearly behind India’s hunger One may be tempted to conclude that the culprit is insufficient food production. However, this is not true. In India’s case, around 40 percent of fruits and vegetables and about 20 percent of grains get destroyed because of insufficient infrastructure and supply chains that are inefficient. Food never reaches consumers. Around Rs. 50,000 crore worth of food is wasted every year. Such wastage has other ramifications...
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