 "Food grains, Food grain bank, food security")
On a humid morning in Jamunipur, a small hamlet in Bhadohi in Uttar Pradesh, Meera Devi receives a sack of wheat. She weighs it and makes a laborious entry in a ledger filled with thumbprints. “My neighbour had borrowed this grain during the second lockdown,” she explains as she empties the sack into a large steel vat. “Now that her husband has gone back to work, she has returned it with 25 per cent more grain as interest.”
Meera Devi is the manager of the Jamunipur grain bank. Set up in 2017, this grain bank with a capacity of
Meera Devi is the manager of the Jamunipur grain bank. Set up in 2017, this grain bank with a capacity of
