The prevention of farm level food grain storage losses in India: A social cost benefit analysis (original) (raw)

A report of a study of farm level food grain losses carried out in Andhra Pradesh, India, from 1976 to 1978 is summarised. The object of the project was to provide a social cost benefit analysis of farm level storage improvements. The study concentrated on the storage of paddy (rice) as the staple crop. Eighteen villages provided approximately twenty sample stores each during the two year period of the project. Samples were subjected to laboratory analysis with emphasis on physical dry weight loss. The final estimate of loss was 4.26 per cent± 1.33 per cent. In the second year various improved storage practices were tested, including improvements to traditional stores, use of metal bins, and pesticides. Analysis of the data suggested a positive cost-benefit from these measures and support for the expansion of India's storage extension service, the Save Grain Campaign. Resume Resume du rapport redige a la conclusion d'une etude menee dans le Andhra Pradesh, en lnde, de 1976 8.1978 sur les partes au niveau de la ferme de graines alimentaires. Le projet avait pour but de dresser une analyse avantages-couts des perfectionnements apportes aux methodes de stockage a !'echelon de !'exploitation agricole. L'etude se concentra sur l'entreposage du paddy, denree de premiere necessite dans le contexte indlen. Dans chacun de dlx-hult villages visites, quelnue vingt greniers furent

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