Indian harvest issues

[karan21]

sad story indeed.

we know it is sad even if u didnt tell us that. but i know ur thinking this is also a hindu propaganda.

 

[Kyusuibu Honbu]

Blaming illnesses related to malnutrition and hunger on issue of Child mortality in India seem inaccurate or incorrect.

As of 2010 Child mortality report, the larger contribution to child mortality in India happen to be infant mortality i.e 1.3 million out of 1.69 million child deaths happen to be infants.

Child Mortality report 2011

And reasons for infant deaths in India are mentioned here below,

Premature birth still main cause of infant mortality

The latest report on the causes of death prepared by the State Bureau of Health Intelligence and Vital Statistics, lists prematurity and low birth weight as the reasons for 39.8 per cent of total infant deaths in the first year of life, followed by birth asphyxia and pneumonia between 2003 and 2008.
It also says birth defects or congenital malformation accounted for 6.37 deaths in 2008

I feel the bigger reason more to do lack of awareness and low access to medical facilities as the major reason.

 

[Awesome]

Merged similar threads.

 

[SamranAli]

when kids even cant get proper food how can the claim they are going to school?.

 

[Kyusuibu Honbu]

when kids even cant get proper food how can the claim they are going to school?.

Because the children get a free meal at school, even breakfast too in some cases.

 

[third eye]

He is the agriculture minister of India.

Actually..

He is the Chairman of the BCCI even though he has not held a cricket bat in his life.

He heads the sugar lobby of Maharastra

He is a former PM aspirant and now the head of an opportunist political party which is a part of the ruling coalition

When he is not doing any of the above , he is the Agriculture Minister of India.

 

[xuxu1457]

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Officials say that, in all, about 6 million tonnes of grain worth at least $1.5 billion (955.5 million pounds) could perish. Analysts say the losses could be far higher because more than 19 million tonnes are now lying in the open, exposed to searing summer heat and monsoon rains.
”

A watchman sits next to sacks of rotten wheat at Dera Mir Miran village in Punjab, north India, last week.Photograph: ReutersIn

This make be unhappy, the wheat should be replaced one or two years in storage period, grain storage is very important

 

[Boson]

MORE THAN 3,000 children die each day across India from illnesses related to malnutrition and hunger, yet millions of tonnes of rodent-infested grain rot in fields across the north of the country.

Alarmingly high levels of hunger, undernourished children and poorly fed women were all due to a massive shortage of grain storage facilities and a corrupt public distribution system, officials have conceded. This resulted in India dropping to 67th of 81 developing nations in the International Food Policy Research Institute’s Global Hunger Index 2011.

Compounding the situation is a highly complex and expensive regime of grain subsidies for farmers, coupled with bureaucratic rules that would rather see the grain rot than distributed at low cost or given free to the desperately poor and needy.

“This is a case of criminal neglect by the government,” D Raja, an MP from the opposition Communist Party of India said.

More than 30 per cent of India’s population of more than 1.2 billion – some 400 million people – live below the poverty line.

Food insecurity is so rampant, even though India is the world’s largest producer of milk and edible oils and the second-largest producer of wheat and sugar, that it has been clubbed with minor economies such as Bangladesh, Timor-Leste and Yemen.

A government-sponsored survey earlier this year revealed that 42 per cent of children under the age of five were underweight – almost double the number in sub-Saharan Africa – compared to 43 years ago. This led prime minister Manmohan Singh to admit that malnutrition was a “national shame” that jeopardised the nation’s health. However, this did not result in remedial measures.

The report also indicated that the increase in hunger in India was in inverse proportion to its economic growth. At the start of India’s economic liberalisation era in the early 90s, 24 per cent of its population of about 1.2 billion were undernourished.

The situation marginally improved to 22 per cent between 2004 and 2006 but deteriorated further as the latest figure shows a 43.5 per cent decline between 2003-08. In 2010 the supreme court urged the government to distribute grain free to the hungry rather than let it go to waste.

But this never happened because of complicated political, bureaucratic and financial reasons and logistical shortcomings.

“The problem of rotting grains and the poor going hungry lies in the system itself,” said Biraj Patnaik, principal adviser on food issues to the supreme court.

The federal government is planning a food security scheme that will guarantee cheap grain to about 63.5 per cent of the population. But critics dismiss this as political gimmickry, and doubt the new scheme will be less corrupt, more efficient or better targeted than current programmes.

At least 77 people have been killed and nearly two million affected by heavy monsoon rains that caused floods in India’s northeastern Assam state. The Brahmaputra river and many of its tributaries have breached their banks, washing away thousands of homes, roads, bridges and power lines.

India's children starving to death while grain rots in fields - The Irish Times - Tue, Jul 03, 2012

^^^ from the Irish Times article by RAHUL BEDI

And seeing the "red" highlighted lines, I am wondering if this is an India bashing article or a "news".

Perhaps the writer thinks that 77 people killed in monsoons could have been saved if free wheat was distributed to them.

 

[Kyusuibu Honbu]

“
Officials say that, in all, about 6 million tonnes of grain worth at least $1.5 billion (955.5 million pounds) could perish. Analysts say the losses could be far higher because more than 19 million tonnes are now lying in the open, exposed to searing summer heat and monsoon rains.
”

A watchman sits next to sacks of rotten wheat at Dera Mir Miran village in Punjab, north India, last week.Photograph: ReutersIn

This make be unhappy, the wheat should be replaced one or two years in storage period, grain storage is very important

Grain storage facilities are expensive, to build and maintain.

 

[DelhiDareDevil]

Grain storage facilities are expensive, to build and maintain.

Cheaper than the value of corruption were facing weekly in India tbh

 

[xuxu1457]

"
Officials say that, in all, about 6 million tonnes of grain worth at least $1.5 billion (955.5 million pounds) could perish. Analysts say the losses could be far higher because more than 19 million tonnes are now lying in the open, exposed to searing summer heat and monsoon rains.
"
$0.2billion can build storage bases of 1million ton, $1.5 billion can build storage bases for 7.5million tons grain

the price of maintain the storage is less less than the damage of mouse, mildew and decay

 

[Boson]

Another interesting thing from the "Irish times" news item by RAHUL BEDI:

3000 children die every due to free wheat not being given.

How many people die in India daily:

List of sovereign states and dependent territories by death rate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

20,652 people die in India daily (Death Rate: 6.23, which means 7.5 million Indians die every year).

How many people die in China daily:

25,918 people die in China daily (Death Rate: 7.06, which means 9.5 million Chinese die every year).

So, as per the author, out of 20,652 Indians who die daily over here, 3000 are these children.
I am wondering how do those other 17,652 Indians die?

And how do 25,918 Chinese die every day?
If the chinese were using Indian storage facilities, they should have been having about 22,718 deaths every day (given a 10% more population).

 

[beijingwalker]

death rates have something to do with the age brackets of a nation,aging countries may have a very high death rates,Japan's death rate is much higher than China.but a country whose young population account for the majority,the death rate tend to be lower,but keep that in mind,young people grow old...at least in most countries.

 

[xuxu1457]

Another interesting thing from the "Irish times" news item by RAHUL BEDI:

3000 children die every due to free wheat not being given.

How many people die in India daily:

List of sovereign states and dependent territories by death rate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

20,652 people die in India daily (Death Rate: 6.23, which means 7.5 million Indians die every year).

How many people die in China daily:

25,918 people die in China daily (Death Rate: 7.06, which means 9.5 million Chinese die every year).

So, as per the author, out of 20,652 Indians who die daily over here, 3000 are these children.
I am wondering how do those other 17,652 Indians die?

And how do 25,918 Chinese die every day?
If the chinese were using Indian storage facilities, they should have been having about 22,718 deaths every day (given a 10% more population).

Oh my god, brother, you totally wrong interpretation.
Crude death rate refers to the number of deaths over a given period divided by the person-years lived by the population over that period. It is expressed as number of deaths per 1,000 population.

for China, the elderly population is 185million (13.5% of whole population age>60),
India 85million (age>60, 7.6% of while population),
how can you image the same dead rate?????
Swaziland dead rate:21.2(16% population age>65)
China: 7.06 (13.5%>60)
Indians 6.23(7.6%>60)
now you know that's why,
Chinese and Swiss dead for time but some Indian dead for food,
the children's and adults dead rate is the point

 

[Soumitra]

If he's so bad, why is he appointed the minister? His post is by appointment, right? He can be fired without an election.

He heads the party who is an important ally of the govt. if he is removed his party will withdraw support and the govt. may fall