Aug. 22, 2014 - 22 aug 2014 - Mumbai, India :.A woman shopping for vegetables walks on a heap of discarded & waste vegetables at the Dadar Vegetable Market at Mumbai. Hundreds of Tonnes of vegetables are wasted at the Dadar Vegetable Market on a daily basis.India, the world's largest producer of milk and the second-largest producer of fruits and vegetables, is also one of the biggest food wasters in the world - wasting 440 billion rupees worth of fruits, vegetables, and grains every year, according to Emerson Climate Technologies India, part of Emerson, a US-based manufacturing and techno
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Aug. 22, 2014 - 22 aug 2014 - Mumbai , India :.A woman shopping for vegetables walks on a heap of discarded & waste vegetables at the Dadar Vegetable Market at Mumbai. Hundreds of Tonnes of vegetables are wasted at the Dadar Vegetable Market on a daily basis...India, the worldÕs largest producer of milk and the second-largest producer of fruits and vegetables, is also one of the biggest food wasters in the world - wasting 440 billion rupees worth of fruits, vegetables, and grains every year, according to Emerson Climate Technologies India, part of Emerson, a US-based manufacturing and technology company. Cold storage solutions, which are severely lacking in India, are needed to reduce spoilage, experts say..In India as much as 40 per cent of fresh produce is wasted each year before reaching the countryÕs households. Because of lack of facilities in transporting, handling and meager Cold storage facilities. India urgently needs to tackle its excessive wastage of fresh food amid high inflation in the country and growing concerns about food security. Challenges with transporting and storing food are the main factors which lead to spoilage and loss of food in India, home to one in three of the worldÕs poorest people, according to the World Bank...STORY:.Spoilt produce blights Indian food chain..August 23, 2014..Amid the chaos and torrential monsoon rains in the Dadar vegetable market in Mumbai, piles of spoilt produce lie festering at the side of the road, while hundreds of green chillies strewn across the floor are trampled by the morningÕs passers-by...This scene is typical in India, where as much as 40 per cent of fresh produce is wasted each year before reaching the countryÕs households...Sagar Agrahari, a vegetable seller in the Dadar market, estimates that he loses up to 20 per cent of his orders from farms around the country because of spoilage...ÒWe just have to throw away the spoilt food - itÕs of no use, Ó he says. ÒItÕs because of transporting and h