{"id":186806,"date":"2022-05-27T20:48:10","date_gmt":"2022-05-27T15:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=186806"},"modified":"2022-05-27T20:48:10","modified_gmt":"2022-05-27T15:18:10","slug":"india-cant-feed-the-world-with-a-major-chapaati-crisis-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-cant-feed-the-world-with-a-major-chapaati-crisis-at-home\/","title":{"rendered":"India can\u2019t feed the world with a major chapaati crisis at home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News: <\/strong>India has imposed ban on wheat import amid the global food crisis.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What are the reasons behind the export ban by the government?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>First,<\/strong> this year India\u2019s wheat output is around 6.5% less than the previous year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Second,<\/strong> the hottest March in 122 years has stunted grain formation. Last year, a kilogram of Indian wheat resulted in about 770gm of flour. This year, that might go down to 720gm.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Third,<\/strong> India\u2019s crop will at best exceed 100 million tonnes this year, it is a\u00a0 steep decline from the initial government estimate of a record 111 million-tons harvest.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fourth, <\/strong>Food Corporation of India (FCI), also slashed its procurement target to less than half of the last year\u2019s target of 43 million tonnes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What can be done to tackle the issues?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If prices of food grains increase, the following options can be adopted:<\/p>\n<p>The government can impose stock limits to force traders to release their hoards.<\/p>\n<p>FCI could also offload more rice than wheat into the subsidized public distribution system. This could free up about 10 million tonnes of wheat for government-to-government supply deals such as with Egypt, as most of the Indians use both rice and wheat.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> This post is created based on the article<strong> \u201cIndia can\u2019t feed the world with a major chapaati crisis at home\u201d <\/strong>published in<strong> Live Mint <\/strong>on <strong>27<sup>th<\/sup> May 2022. <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: India has imposed ban on wheat import amid the global food crisis. What are the reasons behind the export ban by the government? First, this year India\u2019s wheat output is around 6.5% less than the previous year. Second, the hottest March in 122 years has stunted grain formation. Last year, a kilogram of Indian&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-cant-feed-the-world-with-a-major-chapaati-crisis-at-home\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">India can\u2019t feed the world with a major chapaati crisis at home<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10308,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[216,10501],"class_list":["post-186806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-3","tag-live-mint","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704900287},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}