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In India's Farming Heartland, Barely a Raindrop Falls
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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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