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Friday, May 11, 2012

Indian wheat rots in the open after bumper harvest

In fields along a northern Indian highway, mountains of grain have turned black with mildew after getting soaked in the rain.
The millions of tons of wheat rotting because India ran out of warehouse space to hold another bumper crop illustrate a core problem of the nation’s food crisis: India can grow plenty of food but cannot store or transport it well enough to nourish its 1.2 billion people.

From: http://ping.fm/nrk2w

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