The Country That Feeds the World but Starves Its Own

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 We have more grain than we know what to do with — yet people are dying of hunger. Let’s tear open what’s broken.

Full Granaries, Empty Stomachs

India is drowning in grains. Stocks are at multi-year highs.
Rice: ~48.2 million MT. Wheat: ~33.3 million MT.
Plus, this year’s bumper harvest forced the government to convert excess rice into ethanol.
(Reuters)

Broken rice exports were allowed to ease pressure.
(Reuters)

But in towns, villages, slums — people are dying of hunger or near starvation.
In West Bengal, a migrant worker named Sanjoy Sardar survived on one meal a day before dying. Activists say hunger deaths are systematically under-reported.
(The New Humanitarian)

In Banda, Uttar Pradesh, a mother lost her 4-month-old baby to hunger — even though grain depots sat full.
(The Times of India)

The Real Reason People Still Starve

🚛 Logistical failure

Having grains in big warehouses doesn’t mean they reach hungry mouths.
Roads, storage losses, spoilage, corruption — the chain breaks everywhere.

📜 Distribution exclusion

Ration cards, paperwork, quota limitations — many poor are excluded.
The Public Distribution System (PDS) often fails in remote, marginalized areas.
(Wikipedia)

🗑️ Food waste

India loses an estimated 67 to 78 million tonnes of food annually

India loses ~67 to 78 million tonnes of food annually (post-harvest waste).
So while stockpiles are high, usable supply shrinks.
(Worldcrunch)

💰 Power, inequality, corruption

The richest and politically connected decide which area gets supply first.
Those who can’t lobby gets ignored.

 Dark Reality & What This Means

Imagine having more grain than any country in Asia, yet families starve.
That’s not just policy failure — it’s moral dishonesty.
It means the state values its image, trade, and diplomacy more than feeding its own.
It means human lives become collateral damage in stockpile politics.

Governments buy votes with slogans, but they ignore those who already lost the fight for survival.

Before You Scroll Away…

We can talk numbers till tomorrow — but when a child dies beside full granaries, that’s the real story.

India’s richest country in food, poorest in feeding some of its people.
So I ask: If grain piles don’t save you, who can?

💬 Drop your thoughts if you think this hunger paradox will ever end.

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