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Indian Fiber Weaves a Crisis
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In June 2012 India's Food Minister K.V. Thomas agreed that 13% of India's 50.2 millon of wheat grains from a record crop were under makeshift shelters which could be damaged by the monsoon rains. Another complicating factor is that a law from the 1980's intended to protect workers in the jute industry requires all packaging of foodgrains for storage to use jute bags. Since 1990 jute products have increased by about 30% compared to an increase of 82% for the wheat crop, as a result there is a severe shortage of jute bags to store foodgrains in states like Madhya Pradesh.
The jute industry and how it affects India's storage of wheat and foodgrains
04/13/2012
A law from the 1980's to protect the jute industry based in Kolkata and jute workers is now hampering the storage of wheat before the monsoon season in 2012, as the jute bag manufacturers cannot cope with demand. Jute bags are the sole storage bags mandated under the law, and only 20% of bags can be made of plastic materials under legislation from the 1980's. This risks damaging some of the harvested wheat. Make shift storage facilities only complicate the problem further. It highlights the problems India faces in modernizing its economy with bureaucratic and political inaction.
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