Letters: The great Indian rot

In the edit “Destroying farm exports” (May 15), your suggestion to implement a sensible, market-based export policy for farm produce is timely. Reading reports about record production of wheat, basmati rice, cotton, onions or milk causes mixed feelings. On the one hand, one feels proud of the record output; on the other, it reminds one of inadequate and poor-quality warehousing or storage facilities and haphazard action on the export front. During the last 20 years, since economic liberalisation, the country has failed to take steps to substantially augment storage capacity or revamp the existing facilities. This scenario underscores the importance of a sensible export policy, which would protect the interests of all: farmers, consumers and the state.

 

Narendra M Apte, Pune

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