India is growing more food but also wasting up to 67 million tonne of it every year, a government study shows. Fruits, vegetables and pulses -- the main drivers of food inflation -- are wasted the most, found the study by Ciphet, the farm ministry’s harvest-research body. Read | India wastes more farm food than China: UNThe picture is more alarming for individual crops. One million tonne of onions vanish on their way from farms to markets, as do 2.2 million tonne tomatoes. Thus a huge quantity of agricultural production is reduced from the food chain,” the study says.

Source: Hindustan Times September 15, 2016 15:43 UTC