date:Oct 09, 2019
Every year, India loses nearly 38% of its total harvest due to a variety of reasons, mainly related to the lack of an efficient market linkage system as well as absence of a large scale climate-proof storage capacity. This severely impacts the incomes of a large majority of Indian farmers, of which nearly 86% barely manage to eke out a living, earning less than USD 1,000 a year for all their toil and effort.
But the rotting of harvested crops also leads to a waste at a criminal level, especiall