Eco India: The economic value of India's food loss is over Rs 900 billion. Is there a fix?

Every week, Eco India brings you stories that inspire you to build a cleaner, greener and better tomorrow. Our top story this week explores if there is a fix for India's food loss, which has an economic value of over Rs 900 billion.

Clarification: At 01:03 the report mentions that about 50 kg per person is wasted in one year.
Please note: About 50 kg per person per year is wasted at the household level.

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Supervising Producer: Nooshin Mowla
Script & Field Producer: Jessica Goel
Video Editor: Sujit Lad
Associate Producer: Ipsita Basu
Director of Photography: Richard Kujur
Camera Assistant: Abhishek Yadav
Executive Producer: Sannuta Raghu

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[prajyotchikte]

Good work team .. but the main barrier for reducing waste and utilising it is a clean market, the cleaner the market then the waste can be used to its full potential... Secondly if a company is trying to make it work then, the government shall involve in it as one single company cannot make India 100% waste utiliser or sustainable.. everyone should work in harmony to bring a change and become sustainable..

[slurpy]

The majority of food waste is generated at govt food storage facility for grains and vegetable at mandi due to lack of good infrastructure for storage and lack of exports. While this company is doing something it won't solve the major part of the problem.

[subirsharma]

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[finfet]

What was the govt. doing giving free ration fertilizer subsidy? All the govt is doing I giving lacks of crore in Input subsidies no action on building cold storages warehouses proper irrigation. All the agriculture department babus should have their salaries and pensions halved immediately.

[adolfoguerra]

The guys casually scratching his nuts at 8:01 in front of his boss and the reporters whilst sleeping is the icing on the cake.

[sati-spreadlove]

so true ... and sad ...

Rahul Gandhi had in one of his speeches ... talked about this ... but it was in context of amount of WATER WASTED in form of these food which gets dumped in the dust bin ...

[tony-pckd]

Look at Indian weddings Indian functions...how much food got wasted everyday....

[Shouteer]

one of my friend also work on this issue, he working on an application

[kraut]

Now the cows are eating junk food - Maggi, Pasta, Oreos. This is a such madness. Poor cow 🤢 Should we be giving our kids milk from such abused animals.

[kartikeygupta]

For educated developed countries like japan, USA, Italy, France, uk etc have 65-85 per person ke per year while in INDIA it is 50per kg per person, ,,,but it should be lowered more

[Hussainpiplodwala]

Wastelink should recieve the waste and send the feed in those blue drums only rather than wasting so much packaging in transporting it...atleast collecting part doesnt need packaging...

[tejasam]

If you save the food in the refrigerator it will be wasted because of power cuts

[sunshinegirl]

I wish excessive food was given to poor to ease their hunger.

[lifestoriesfromearth]

Change Your FOOD/EATING/Consumption Habit. WE SHOULD BE THE CHANGE...

[TheContrariann]

😑 Thanks for not making this a PPT Slide video with Music, making us read things on YouTube 🎉💫🎉💫🎉💫🎉

[Oo-plzg]

Sadly govt is only concerned about irrelevant issues.

[khush]

Huge Respect for them seriously 🥰. Scroll In Surprise me every week 🤩thank you❤ so much team.

[aleenaprasannan]

This is not a solution to prevent food wastage caused along the supply chain, it doesn't even address that.
This only an option to extend end use of whatever is discarded after it survives the supply chain.
So it's more like a band aid for end customers to feel less guilty or reduce cost for waste disposal.
Most of the wastage happen to fresh food and before food ever reaches the end customer. The only solution to that is to massively increase the production of preserved food from the produce that are too ripe to survive the supply chain along with having a massive political concensus to push for more proliferation of cold storage and cold chain transportation.
Dry, freeze, pickle or can over ripe stuff.
There needs to be a massive push and campaign to educate farmers on making value added products themselves for their own financial security. And educating trader on safe transportation practices to minimize loss. They hardly ever know how produce needs to be handled to extend their shelf life

[thedoctorchants]

The communication by Saket is very impressive. He seems to know and manage well, the subject he is involved in.

[kunjunjammachacko]

Glory be unto ELELOHEYISRA'EL YAHSHUAH HA'MOSHIACH.

Great initiatives towards sustainability. Keep going all of you. Keep one step at a time.

Jai Hind-Satyameva Jayate-Parakramo Vijayate.