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India has tremendous potential to become the primary source of agricultural products, more specifically food products in the world. It has about 53% of arable land – land available for cultivation of crops as compared to a measly average of about 11% for the rest of the world. It has some feathers in it’s cap as the second highest fruit and vegetable producer in the world, 6th largest producer of fish and such like but still doesn’t make up to the top 10 food exporting countries.If it weren’t for some severe infrastructure and technology issues, there is actually stopping for this gigantic food bowl. With large tracts of arable land, inexpensive labour and high-quality produce tumbling out of the barns, there is a potential so huge that sometimes, the scope and scale is almost unbelievable.
However, if one had to point out at one single single reason as to why the Indian agricultural industry is such a laggard when pitted against the global standards, it could be the pathetic state of the logistics, distribution and and an inefficient supply chain. India faces an acute problem of large amounts of food wasted away due to the lack of a proper cold storage, cold chain and frozen food distribution system. If only this was in place, huge amounts of food could have been processed into some kind of value added foods and sold both locally and abroad.Annually, there is usually a large amount of such agricultural produce that is waste away. If there were cold storage systems, efficient cold chain, logistics and distribution companies, it could have been possible to process these primary products into newer, secondary products and resold to consumers locally and internationally. A strategy needs to be carved out for the growth of this industry and a lot of investment action is yet to see some real action.
Investment in cold storage, cold chain distribution, installation of food processing plants across the country, applied research on harvesting technologies an a rapid development of the food retail industry are all necessary steps that would ensure an organic growth in this sector.
What is Cold Chain?
A cold chain is basically a logistics system, which helps in maintaining and providing a series of facilities for ensuring ideal storage conditions for the persihables from the point of origin to the point of sale. A well developed and efficiently organized cold chain reduces wastage, spoilage and helps keeps the perishables intact thereby helping to maintain the quality of the harvested food products ultimately making the whole system cost effective to the farmers and that which ensures top-notch quality to the end user.
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“Buy Fresh, Buy Local”: Director of Sustainable Living Systems in Corvallis says Bitterroot’s ready for new and sustainable food system
By Brian D’Ambrosio
Jill Davies is the director of Sustainable Living Systems, a non-profit organization dedicated to teaching environmentally favorable approaches to food production. She hopes to increase enthusiasm for the building of a new and vibrant local food system. Creating a secure community food system, capable of supporting sustainable agriculture right here in the Bitterroot, is something she aims to achieve through a mixture of education and persuasiveness.
Generally speaking, “local food” is a principle of sustainability relying upon the consumption of locally grown food products. Local food initiatives are part and parcel of local purchasing concepts; they are based upon preferences to buy locally generated goods and services.
The concept is often related to the slogan “Think globally, Act locally,” prevalent in green politics. Those in favor of developing a local food economy, like Davies and the folks at Corvallis-based Sustainable Living Systems, believe that since food is essential for everyone, everywhere, every single day, then a slight change in the way it is produced and advertised will have a tremendous result on individual health and the overall ecosystem.
Local food is also often interpreted as being organic, or produced by farmers who adopt sustainable and lenient practices. Many local food advocates tend to equate local food with material produced by independent farmers in the community, while equating “non-local food” with food produced and transformed by large agribusiness.
“Fresh, organically grown food is more nutritious,” says Davies. “Healthy food from a healthy soil creates healthy bodies and minds.”
Proponents like Davies say shopping decisions favoring local food consumption directly influence the well-being of people because local food is unprocessed and tastes better than food shipped long distances from other states or countries.
“When you have a local food system you get exceptional taste and freshness,” says Davies.
Furthermore, she says, a local food system will improve the local economy, strengthen the alternative food network and may be ecologically more sustainable.
Strengthening the local economy, says Davies, means buying local produce as a method of keeping your dollars circulating in the community. Forming dependable, sincere and cognizant relationships with the farmers growing your groceries is also a part of that development process.
Institutions, including schools, restaurants, nursing homes, and hospitals, will play a key role in the creation and advancement of a local food system. Getting these institutions to commit to buying at least some local products, even if it’s only carrots or lettuce, is a pretty solid starting point. “Buy Fresh, Buy Local” signs are a unique part of the information campaign, too.
“Help from these institutions is most important,” Davies says. “We want to educate the public to look for our signs, and know that places displaying these signs are carrying fresh, local products,” she says.
Davies grew up around the time of the transformation from organic agriculture to industrial agriculture, and speaks about a vanished time when the Bitterroot Valley was the former breadbasket of Montana.
“Up until the 1950s, the Bitterroot produced the majority of the state’s food,” she says.
“Now, all the food eaten here comes from far away – from Albertson’s, Safeway and Super One. There are few organic food producers here. Only a small percentage of the food eaten actually originates here. Most of it comes from industrial agriculture sources from far away.”
Davies studied biodynamics in England in the early 1970s. Based on a series of lectures given in the early 1920s by the Austrian philosopher Rudolf Steiner, biodynamics merges the practices of organic agriculture. But it goes a bit deeper by trying to harmonize the grower’s work with other subject matters, such as gravity, magnetism, and lunar phases.
After working in the gardens of a commune in France, and then on a biodynamic truck farm in Switzerland, she returned to the United States. Davies again traveled to England in 1999, attending a course at Schumacher College on biotechnology in agriculture, and has been immersed in this issue ever since. Her agricultural and organic knowledge has been advanced by agro-ecology guru Helen Atthowe, whose certified organic vegetable and fruit farm is east of Stevensville.
Davies hopes that our geographic region will once again serve as a principal source of grain and produce supply, and that a food co-op site will be found or built by next spring. “Hopefully, we’ll have a store opened by then. The co-op will be a gigantic component of the local food system”
In order for this consumer food outlet to materialize, more grants need to be written, more meetings held, additional subscribers signed up, and further loans obtained. The Bozeman Food Co-op, boasting 14,000 members and an interrelated network of community cooperative consumers and farmers, small businesses and local producers, remains the model worthy of replication.
Part of building a sustainable, local food system that fosters the economic health of the Bitterroot’s communities and farms, includes, said Davies, prohibiting the proliferation of big box stores like Wal-Mart. The world’s largest retailer and largest private employer (1.3 million employees), Wal-Mart, raked in over $312 billion in sales last year.
But recently, the company has drawn intense scrutiny, from the Bitterroot Good Neighbors Coalition, for its negative economic impact, its poor wages, lack of affordable health coverage for its employees, and its stiff resistance to unionization. “These Wal-Mart super centers are the number one food retailers in the country. One of the first steps to building and nurturing a local economy is keeping out such places. Box stores don’t purchase locally produced products to be sold in their stores. This leads to a decrease in the amount of local cash flow that changes hands.”
Another objective Davies touts is the development of local food storage, processing and distribution facilities. Consumers subscribing to this reasoning may be able to buy food directly from local family farms or through other direct channels such as farmers’ markets, food cooperatives, like the planned Co-op and retail outlet, and community-supported agricultural programs.
“The Bitterroot Valley is definitely ready for a good co-op program, self-sufficient food planning, and a healthier food system.”
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What you do with all the objects that you have in your house? Perhaps ‘store’ is the term that ensures complete safety and security for all the items kept in a house, office, industry, park, bank, and almost every other place. It is not that storage is done only to secure objects from damage and loss but it is one of the major organizing tools. People store items for themselves so that they can collect them without any problem. In day to day life there are many perishable or non-perishable goods need to be stored. The storage solution may be for conservation process or just to keep the objects organized and safe. It is human behavior to relate a particular object with a definite storage facility assigned to that object.
Home is the best place to start developing storage solutions. Storage furniture includes: cabinet, bookcase, chest, desk, sideboard, cupboard and wardrobe. They serve the purpose of keeping books, stationary and other objects. Remember that hoarding is a form of storage abuse. A refrigerator should be used at home for food storage facilities especially for perishable goods and the garage is used to keep your vehicle sheltered. Shed storage constitutes one of the essential part in every house. There must be lots of things that are not in use (may be used in future) yet they cannot be thrown out. Shed is that part of the home that stores all such items that cannot be kept in other rooms. Old furniture, cartons and boxes are generally kept in the shed. Closet storage is a unique storage place that is not completely hidden. It is the place between the furniture and the room that is also used for storage purpose. When you store objects, make sure that they are placed in an order to appear decorative.
You must have come across the storage facilities that are provided in the train stations, theatres, schools, swimming pools and libraries. These are known as public storage facilities. These are meant for store clothing, bags, suitcase and other belongings. Left-luggage, clock-room and locker-room are some of the common public storage venues. If you are availing the public storage facilities, you may have to pay. Sometimes, they are available free of cost.
Storage is the process that is prevalent in mass level as well. There are large storage buildings like cold storage and granary. They are some of the huge storage units meant for grains, vegetables, fruits and many other items. These storage facilities are meant for business purpose or they may be provided by the government in public interest. During off seasons vegetable and fruits are made available to you from the stores.
You must have fancied keeping wine at your home and place it as a luxury. For that, proper wine storage facility is essential. Wine storage is significant because it preserves aroma, taste and color of the wine. Wine storage furniture can add style and luxury to your home. Even if you are an occasional wine drinker; wine storage furniture can be placed just as any other furniture. You can select a wine storage system from the market according to your budget and choice. The structure of your house and temperature (inside the house) are some important factors that will influence your purchase of the wine storage units. Storage solution will help you to preserve and decorate your home at the same time. However, make sure that all the storage facilities are well secured against damaging element like weather, rodents and insects.
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